Fever’s Lexie Hull on team for second consecutive year
The 2023 USA 3×3 Women’s Pan American Team is represented by Cierra Burdick, Blake Dietrick, Lexie Hull and Azurá Stevens. Jen Rizzotti, who has USA Basketball 5-on-5 and 3×3 coaching experience, will serve as the head coach.
Burdick is a two-time gold medalist for the USA at the FIBA 3×3 World Cup (2023, 2014) and has played in the event three times. Her first USA 3×3 experience was in 2009 and she is actively involved in the FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series for USA Basketball.
Dietrick has played for the U.S. at various 3×3 events since 2021, including stops on the FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series. Along with Burdick, the duo recently competed for the USA at the 2023 FIBA 3×3 Women’s Series Final and previously won gold at the 2021 FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup.
Hull won bronze at the 2022 FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup and silver at 2022 FIBA 3×3 U23 World Cup.
Stevens will make her USA Basketball 3×3 debut but previously competed for the red, white and blue at the 2015 FIBA U19 Women’s World Championship (5-on-5) and won gold.
The USA women will play in Group A and their first matchup is against Dominican Republic (5:00 p.m. ET) on Oct. 21. Their next group contest is on Oct. 22 against Mexico (12:00 p.m. ET) and if they advance then they will play in the quarterfinals later that day. The semifinals and gold medal game are scheduled for Oct. 23.
The USA enters the 2023 Pan American Games as the defending men’s and women’s gold medalists. In 2019, when 3×3 debuted at the Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, the Americans captured the men’s gold over Puerto Rico and the women’s gold against Argentina.
The 2023 Pan American Games will stream for free on the Panam Sports Channel mobile and television application, panamsportschannel.org and YouTube.com/Panamsports.
Originally posted on usab.com