Cameron Brink, Cierra Burdick, Rhyne Howard and Hailey Van Lith will make up the 2024 U.S ladies’s Olympic 3×3 basketball staff that can go for a second straight gold medal, USA Basketball announced on Wednesday.
Three of the 4 staff members — Brink, Burdick and Van Lith — represented the U.S. on the 2023 FIBA 3×3 World Cup, which ended with a gold medal. Burdick was on the squad that received the occasion in 2014.
All 4 gamers participated within the 3×3 nationwide staff camp lately in Springfield, Massachusetts, and took half within the FIBA 3×3 Girls’s Collection Springfield Cease the place they were runners-up to Canada.
The uswomen received the inaugural tournament through the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, beating ROC 18-15 in the gold medal game.
The Olympic ladies’s 3×3 staff shall be lead by head coach Jennifer Rizzotti, who at the moment serves as president of the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun.
How 3×3 differs from the 5×5 sport is that video games are 10 minutes lengthy with a 12-second shot clock and are performed on a halfcourt. Video games are to 21 factors with 1- and 2-point baskets. Ought to a staff not attain 21 factors, whoever is main when time is up is asserted the winner.
Two members of the staff at the moment play within the WNBA, with Brink, 22, in her rookie season with the Los Angeles Sparks, and Howard, 24, taking part in her third yr with the Atlanta Dream. Burdick, 30, performed 5 seasons with six WNBA groups and has performed in Europe since 2021. Van Lith, 22, transferred to TCU this spring after spending the 2023-24 season at LSU and her first three years in school at Louisville.
