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Lynx All-Star Forward Rebekkah Brunson Added to USA Women's National Team Pool

August 18, 2010 - Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Minnesota Lynx News Release


MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL - USA Basketball today announced that Lynx All-Star Forward Rebekkah Brunson was among four players added to the 2009-12 USA Basketball Women's National Team, from which the 2010 USA World Championship and 2012 U.S. Olympic Team will be selected. Brunson joins Lynx teammates Seimone Augustus, Lindsay Whalen and Candice Wiggins on the 24-player roster.

Brunson's National Team experience includes a stint with the 2007 USA FIBA Americas Championship Team, which won gold in Chile to qualify for the 2008 Olympics. As a member of the 2007-08 USA National Team she also played in some exhibition games that year. While at Georgetown, Brunson was on the 2003 USA Pan American Games Team that went 5-2 and won the silver medal. The team of collegians competed against national teams that were preparing for that summer's FIBA Americas Championship.

Members of the USA National Team will assemble on Sept. 4 in Washington, D.C., to tip-off its final training prior to departing for Europe to compete in the 2010 FIBA World Championship. While in the nation's capital the team will practice daily Sept. 4-7 at 10:00 a.m. (all times EDT). On Sept. 4-5, the squad will train at The Flint School in Oakton, Va., and on Sept. 6-7 the USA will practice at American University's Bender Arena in Washington, D.C.

Moving up the coast to Hartford, Conn., the team will train Sept. 9 at 10:00 a.m. at the XL Center before taking on defending world champion Australia in an exhibition game on Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. The U.S. will practice at 10:00 a.m. on Sept. 11 at the XL Center and will cap its domestic training with a friendly against Spain, the No. 5-ranked women's program in the world, at 1:00 p.m. on Sept. 12.

Traveling to Salamanca, Spain, the USA National Team will face Australia a second time, on Sept. 17 (time TBD) in the first game of the 2010 Spain International Invitational. Spain will tip-off against Senegal in the second game of the day and the winners will meet on Sept. 18 (times TBD) for the championship, while the losing teams will play for third place.

The U.S. will get one final warm-up before the start of the 2010 FIBA World Championship when it faces host Czech Republic in a scrimmage in Brno on Sept. 20 (time TBD).

The 12-member 2010 USA World Championship Team will be selected from the 24-member USA National Team pool. The make-up of the USA National Team during its exhibition contests will be partly dependent upon who is competing in the WNBA playoffs and the official 12-woman USA roster that will compete in the 2010 FIBA World Championship must be submitted to FIBA at the technical meeting that normally is held the day prior to the start of the competition.

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