Hamby Named to USA Basketball Women’s World Cup Qualifying Team
2/7/2022 9:37:00 PM | Women's Basketball
This marks the first time Hamby will be a member of a USA Basketball team.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Former Wake Forest women's basketball player and current WNBA star for the Las Vegas Aces in the WNBA Dearica Hamby was named to the USA Basketball Women's World Cup Qualifying Team as announced by the organization Monday.
After a three-day training camp that included the top players in the country, Hamby made the final 12-person squad that will represent the United States. The team will compete in the Feb. 10-12 FIBA World Cup Qualifying Tournament in Washington, D.C.
Hamby is coming off her seventh season in the WNBA all coming in the Las Vegas Aces organization. This season she was named a WNBA All-Star, averaging 9.2 points per game, 6.7 rebounds per game and 1.7 assists per game, coming off the bench in all 29 games for the franchise.
She helped the Aces reach the WNBA Playoffs for the third consecutive year as they reached the WNBA Semifinals, nearly advancing to their second consecutive finals.
In addition to her season in 2022, she was also the WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year in both 2021 and 2020.
FIBA Women's World Cup Qualifying Tournament
A total of 16 nations will compete in the four FIBA World Cup Qualifying Tournaments. The top three finishing teams in each of the four qualifying tournaments will advance to the 2022 FIBA World Cup, which will be held Sept. 22-Oct. 1 in Sydney, Australia. Should Australia and/or the U.S., which already are qualified for the World Cup as the host nation and 2020 Olympic gold medalist, respectively, not finish among the top three teams in their respective tournaments, only the top two teams from those groups, plus the U.S. and/or Australia will advance to compete in the FIBA World Cup.
Competing in the Belgrade, Serbia, Group A are Australia, Brazil, Serbia and South Korea; Belgrade Group B consists of China, France, Mali and Nigeria; and competing in Osaka, Japan, will be Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada and Japan.
Russia, which was originally scheduled to play in the four-team group in Washington, D.C., will instead compete against Belgium and Puerto Rico in the Dominican Republic, and will not play against the United States.
