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United States. The USA women's national under-19 basketball team is the women's basketball team, administered by USA Basketball, that represents the United States in international under-19 and under-18 (under age 19 and under age 18) women's basketball competitions, consisting mainly of the FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship for Women and FIBA ...
Janet Karvonen was born and raised in New York Mills, Minnesota, where she became a pioneer for girls basketball in Minnesota. Karvonen scored over 3,000 points in her high school career and led New York Mills to state championships in 1977, 1978, and 1979 and a third-place finish in 1980. Karvonen earned a scholarship to play at Old Dominion ...
The USA Basketball Women's National Team, [2] commonly known as Team USA, is governed by USA Basketball and competes in FIBA Americas. The team is by far the most successful in international women's basketball, having won 10 out of the 12 Olympic tournaments it has entered. It has also won 9 of the last 12 World Cups (including the last 4), and ...
Lady Chieftains. The Lady Chieftains are a girls basketball team from Shiprock, New Mexico, located on the Navajo Nation. They are the subject of the documentary Rocks with Wings. The documentary charts the transformation of the team from a lackluster team to a championship team led by coach Jerry Richardson. [1]
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a women's professional basketball league based in the United States. It is composed of 12 teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and league play started in 1997. The regular season is played from May to ...
Women's basketball. Initial jump at the match for the 3rd place in the FIBA Under-18 Women's Americas Championship Buenos Aires 2022 between Argentina and Brazil. Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It was first played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts.
1988 →. The 1984 United States women's Olympic basketball team competed in the Games of the XXIII Olympiad, representing the United States of America. The U.S. women's Olympic team won their first gold medal at the event having previously finished runner-up in the 1976 Olympics and not having competed in the 1980 Olympics due to the Olympic ...
Pac-12 Freshman of the Year (2020) Pac-12 All-Freshman Team (2020) Alissa Katelina Pili (born June 8, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Lynx of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball for the Utah Utes and USC Trojans.