COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (June 9, 2025) – Twenty-one athletes are expected to participate in the 2025 USA Basketball Women’s AmeriCup Team trials which begin June 17 at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Players were selected by the USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team Committee.
“On behalf of the USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Committee, I am proud to announce a talented group of 21 athletes who will compete for their place on the 2025 USA Women’s AmeriCup Team,” said Cori Close, USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team Committee chair. “About half of these young women have already claimed a gold medal with USA Basketball, so they bring great international experience with them. They are sure to be fierce competitors at trials. We look forward to choosing the group who will best represent the U.S. at the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup.”
The players include Raegan Beers, Mikayla Blakes, Madison Booker, Mara Braun, Addyson Brown, Jaloni Cambridge, Audi Crooks, Margaret Doogan, Joyce Edwards, Stailee Heard, Hannah Hidalgo, Flau’jae Johnson, Gianna Kneepkens, Darianna Littlepage-Buggs, Olivia Miles, Khamil Pierre, Reigan Richardson, Kennedy Smith, Hannah Stuelke, Grace VanSlooten and Payton Verhulst.
The trials roster features nine athletes who have claimed a gold medal as members of various USA Basketball teams, including the 2024 USA U18 Women’s National Team (Edwards, Smith), 2023 USA U19 Women’s National Team (Booker, Edwards, Hidalgo, VanSlooten), 2022 USA U18 Women’s National Team (VanSlooten), 2022 USA U17 Women’s National Team (Booker, Cambridge, Hidalgo), 2021 USA U19 Women’s National Team (Verhulst), 2021 USA U16 Women’s National Team (Booker and Cambridge) and the 2019 USA U16 Women’s National Team (Verhulst, Miles).
Braun has experience with USA Basketball’s 3x3 program, winning gold at the 2023 FIBA 3x3 Nations League Final.
Blakes, Booker, Cambridge, Edwards, Hidalgo and Smith played for the USA at the Nike Hoop Summit.
Additionally, Beers, Brown, Crooks and Johnson have participated in previous USA Basketball team trials.
Making their USA Basketball debuts are Doogan, Heard, Kneepkens, Littlepage-Buggs, Pierre, Richardson and Stuelke.
As previously announced, Kara Lawson (Duke University) will serve as head coach with assistant coaches DeLisha Milton-Jones (Old Dominion University) and Jennie Baranczyk (University of Oklahoma). They will be assisted by court coaches Jim Flanery (Creighton University) and Robyn Fralick (Michigan State University) at trials.
Flanery and Fralick will participate with USA Basketball for the first time. Flanery, Creighton’s all-time wins leader, just completed his 24th season at the school. He has guided the Bluejays to 10 NCAA Tournament appearances, most recently in 2025 where Creighton made their fourth consecutive trip to March Madness. In 2021-22, Flanery led Creighton to the Elite Eight, the program’s best tournament performance in school history. Fralick just completed her second season at Michigan State and has led the Spartan’s to back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances. Prior to her time in East Lansing, Fralick spent five seasons at Bowling Green University and reached the postseason three times, including leading the Falcons to a 31-win season and a WNIT semifinals appearance in 2022-23. Fralick won an NCAA Division II national championship at Ashland University in 2017.
Following the selection of the 2025 USA Women’s AmeriCup Team and a training camp in Colorado Springs, the United States will travel to Santiago, Chile, for the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup, set for June 28-July 6.
The 2025 USA Women’s AmeriCup Team will open Group B with host nation Chile, followed by Colombia, Puerto Rico and Mexico. The full schedule is available here. The winner of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup will earn a berth to the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup, set to be held in Berlin next September.
Since the event’s inception in 1993, the United States has captured four AmeriCup gold medals, including titles in 2019 and 2021.
For more information about the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup, click here.
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