Comets Snow to Join USA Basketball Senior Women for March 19-28 European Tour
March 8, 2004 - Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Houston Comets News Release
HOUSTON - Houston Comets center Michelle Snow will join the 2004 USA Basketball Women's Senior National Team during a six-game, five-city tour of Europe, March 19-28, which was announced today by USA Basketball. Snow will be one of five top WNBA athletes who are attempting to secure a spot on the 2004 USA team.
Snow (6-5, Tennessee '02), who has averaged 15.0 points and 11.4 rebounds playing for Moscow Dynamo in Russia this offseason, will begin play in Poland with fellow team candidates Swin Cash (Detroit Shock), Ruth Riley (Detroit Shock), Tari Phillips (New York Liberty) and Tangela Smith (Sacramento Monarchs). After a practice on March 19, the U.S. will face the Polish National Team on March 20 in Gdansk Staroguard. On March 21, the U.S. will go up against 2004 EuroLeague member Lotos VBW Clima in Gdynia. The USA will be hosted twice by 2003 European Championship silver medalists Czech Republic, March 23-24 in Brno. The United States will face its final European competition in Hungary, playing in Pecs against 2004 EuroLeague member Mizo-Pecsi VSK on March 27, and closing its tour against the Hungarian National Team in Budapest on March 28.
All five of the USA team candidates participating in the European tour join the available U.S. core members. The previously announced core group members of the 2004 USA Basketball Women's Senior National Team include Sheryl Swoopes (Houston Comets), Tina Thompson (Houston Comets), Sue Bird (Seattle Storm), Tamika Catchings (Indiana Fever), Shannon Johnson (San Antonio Silver Stars), Lisa Leslie (Los Angeles Sparks), DeLisha Milton-Jones (Los Angeles Sparks), Katie Smith (Minnesota Lynx) and Dawn Staley (Charlotte Sting). The nine are expected to represent the United States at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, August 13-29.
The U.S. will be without the services in Europe of center Leslie, who had a prior commitment, and Milton-Jones, who suffered a torn ACL (right knee) on February 22. Staley, who is the head coach at Temple University and did not train with the team during it's February camp, will join the United States upon the completion of her collegiate season. Following the pair of games in Poland, Swoopes will return to the United States due to a prior commitment.
The 2004 USA Basketball Women's Senior National Team recently earned a clean sweep of Cuba in a three-game series in Havana.
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