The 2024 USA 3×3 Girls’s AmeriCup Workforce has been formally introduced, and there’s a very intriguing choice on the four-player roster: Abbey Hsu, a Columbia College standout.
Subsequent week, Hsu will be a part of Azurá Stevens, Maddie Siegrist, and Brittney Sykes in Puerto Rico for a 3×3 competitors, the place they’ll compete in opposition to different nations within the Americas. Hsu stands out from the record of chosen gamers in that she’s the one one not at present enjoying within the WNBA.
Stevens, Siegrist, and Sykes are all WNBA starters who common close to — or round — double figures. Stevens averaged 9.6 factors and seven rebounds per recreation on the Los Angeles Sparks this season, Siegrist averaged 9.4 factors on 50.5% taking pictures on the Dallas Wings, and Sykes put up 12.2 factors, 4.1 rebounds, and three.3 assists on the Mystics. Sykes and Stevens will even play in Unequalled this winter, which suggestions off on January seventeenth in Miami.
Hsu, in the meantime, was drafted with the No. 34 decide by the Connecticut Solar after a standout profession with Columbia College. She didn’t report back to Solar coaching camp this previous Spring nor play within the WNBA this previous season — however she is presumed to attend Sun training camp within the coming years. Whether or not or not she is going to in the end have a profession within the WNBA stays to be seen.
Nonetheless, Hsu beat out a slew of WNBA rotation gamers who have been vying for a spot do not the crew. 9 different gamers participated within the developmental camp in Phoenix in November however have been in the end not chosen: Shakira Austin (Washington Mystics), Grace Berger, Rae Burrell (Los Angeles Sparks), Emily Engstler (Mystics), Natasha Howard (Dallas Wings), Taylor Mikesel, Alissa Pili (Minnesota Lynx), Jaylyn Sherrod (New York Liberty), and Sug Sutton (Mystics).
Hsu, a 5’ 11 guard had a standout profession at Columbia, averaging 20.4 factors and seven.3 rebounds in her senior season. She grew to become the primary lady to ever get drafted out of the college after being named Ivy League Participant of the 12 months in 2024.
The FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup is a event held yearly since 2021. The U.S. girls received in 2021 and 2023, and got here in third in 2022. This yr, the event will happen from December 12 to 15 in San Juan, and have the U.S., Canada, Chile, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Colombia, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, and Cuba. Every 3×3 recreation shall be performed to 21 factors, on a half-court with a 10-minute recreation clock. The event will stream reside on YouTube.com/FIBA3x3.
