Meet Team USA's U19 women's team: Where each player played high school basketball, was ranked in class

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Team USA's U19 women's hoops squad is presently successful Brno, Czech Republic going for its 4th consecutive FIBA World Cup golden medal.

So acold truthful bully arsenic of Saturday, erstwhile Team USA collapsed its ain scoring record by demolishing Korea 134-53 successful its excavation play opener.

As you mightiness imagine, Team USA's roster is perfectly stacked, consisting mostly of graduating precocious schoolhouse seniors/incoming assemblage freshmen but besides including rising assemblage sophomores, rising precocious schoolhouse seniors, and 1 rising precocious schoolhouse sophomore.

Below, we return a look astatine each subordinate connected Team USA from a precocious schoolhouse and recruiting lens. The players are listed successful ascending bid of jersey number.

(Recruiting rankings per ESPN HoopGurlz.)

Addison Bjorn, G/F, 6-1, Park Hill South (MO) – No. 13 successful Class of 2026 – Uncommitted

One of nan astir prototypical wings successful precocious schoolhouse basketball, Bjorn averaged 22.1 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 3.4 steals, and a artifact per crippled connected 57% shooting arsenic junior. She led Park Hill South to a 28-1 grounds and was named Missouri's Gatorade Player of nan Year.

Jerzy Robinson, G/F, 6-1, Sierra Canyon (CA) – No. 5 successful Class of 2026 – Uncommitted

Robinson has been wide considered 1 of nan apical players successful precocious schoolhouse hoops since nan opening of her freshman twelvemonth and 1 of nan apical longterm prospects successful her people since mediate school. She transferred to Sierra Canyon arsenic a sophomore to capable Juju Watkins' shoes aft a ascendant freshman twelvemonth astatine Desert Vista (AZ), and she hasn't stopped getting better. One of nan physically strongest perimeter players you'll spot astatine nan precocious schoolhouse level, Robinson is uncontainable erstwhile utilizing her powerfulness to onslaught nan rim whether creating disconnected nan dribble aliases catching nan shot successful nan debased post. She was a Sporting News 2nd Team All-American arsenic a inferior pinch 27 points and 10 rebounds a game.

Saniyah Hall, G/F, 6-2, Montverde Academy (FL) – No. 1 successful Class of 2026 – Uncommitted

The apical rising elder successful nan state based connected some her longterm outlook and her ascendant inferior twelvemonth astatine Montverde Academy, which was her first aft transferring complete from Laurel (OH). Hall anchored 1 of nan nation's premier teams pinch 20 points, 6.6 rebounds, 3.5 assists, 2.8 steals, and 1.3 blocks, and her jumper is still getting quickly better. She was a Sporting News 1st Team All-American and finalist for Player of nan Year.

Emilee Skinner, G, 6-0, Ridgeline (UT) – No. 4 successful Class of 2025 – Duke (incoming freshman)

Skinner ne'er stopped improving astatine a faster complaint than astir of her nationally-ranked peers, and arsenic a result, she vanished her precocious schoolhouse profession arsenic an undefeated authorities champion and nan No. 4 imaginable successful her class. She's nan uncommon combo defender who tin measurement successful arsenic a axenic constituent guard, a prototypical disconnected guard, and thing successful between. A Sporting News 2nd Team All-American, Skinner averaged 26.3 points, 10.2 rebounds, 5 assists, 3.8 steals, and 1.5 blocks per crippled shooting 54% from nan field, 39% from three, and 86% connected free throws past season.

Jordan Lee, G/F, 6-0, Stockton St. Mary's (CA) – No. 9 successful Class of 2024 – Texas (rising sophomore)

One of conscionable 3 players connected nan roster pinch a twelvemonth of assemblage shot already nether their belt. Lee was a top-10 enlistee successful nan Class of 2024 aft a legendary profession astatine St. Mary's (Stockton), which she capped disconnected pinch a CIF-Sac Joaquin Section Division 1 title successful 2023-24. She did each that a afloat twelvemonth younger than astir players successful her classification. Lee averaged 5.8 PPG connected 40.8% FG and 39.3% 3FG arsenic a existent freshman astatine Texas and scored 16 points successful a season-ending nonaccomplishment to South Carolina successful nan last four. 

Jazzy Davidson, G/F, 6-2, Clackamas (OR) – No. 1 successful Class of 2025 – USC (incoming freshman)

Davidson was considered nan apical enlistee successful her people by galore arsenic a freshman, slid conscionable a fewer spots for nan bulk of her precocious schoolhouse career, and vanished backmost connected apical astatine its conclusion. With elite quickness, ball-handling, and three-level scoring expertise for a 6-foot-2 guard/wing, it's difficult to reason against it. She averaged 29.2 points, 8.7 rebounds, 3.3 steals, and 2.6 assists per crippled arsenic a elder for Clackamas, and apt would've vanished her elder run pinch a authorities title if she didn't move an ankle successful nan 2nd half of nan championship. Davidson was a Sporting News 1st Team All-American and Player of nan Year finalist. USC gets nan top-ranked imaginable successful nan state for nan 2nd clip successful 3 years.

Kate Harpring, G, 5-11, Marist (GA) – No. 4 successful Class of 2026 – Uncommitted

Ranked 4th successful her people by ESPN and No. 1 by 247Sports. Harpring, Georgia's reigning Gatorade Player of nan Year, is simply a existent do-it-all talent astatine constituent defender with 32.2 points, 10.6 rebounds, 5.1 steals, and 3.7 assists per crippled arsenic a inferior for Georgia's 4A semifinalist.

Maddyn Greenway, G, 5-8, Providence Academy (MN) – No. 11 successful Class of 2026 – Committed to Kentucky

Between her unthinkable stat statement and nan truth that Providence Academy went undefeated to gain a top-25 ranking, Greenway might've been nan astir statistically ascendant subordinate successful nan state past season. And she still has a twelvemonth near successful precocious schoolhouse shot earlier heading to Kentucky. Greenway put up 32.8 points, 8.7 assists, 7.3 rebounds, and 4.8 steals per crippled shooting 52% wide and 38% from heavy pinch 91 makes, and was named a Sporting News 2nd squad All-American.

Kayleigh Heckel, G, 5-9, Long Island Lutheran (NY) – No. 13 successful Class of 2024 – UConn (rising sophomore – transportation from USC)

After 1 twelvemonth astatine USC, Heckel lands wherever galore expected her to perpetrate from nan opening – UConn. Before that, however, she was a fable astatine Long Island Lutheran, which ESPN chose arsenic its nationalist champion for nan 2023-24 play erstwhile she was a senior. That year, Heckel averaged 16.6 points, 8.3 assists, and 3.1 steals per game. If you for illustration throwback constituent guards who spot nan crippled 10 steps successful advance, she's nan subordinate for you.

Sienna Betts, F/C, 6-4, Grandview (CO) – No. 2 successful Class of 2025 – UCLA (incoming freshman)

If you inquire us, Betts had nan champion play of anyone successful precocious schoolhouse girls hoops successful 2024-25. The reigning Sporting News National Player of nan Year averaged 23 points, 16.5 rebounds, 4.9 assists, 3.4 blocks, and 2.3 steals per crippled connected 60% shooting for Colorado's apical squad and 6A authorities champion, and she moreover was named MVP of nan McDonald's All-American Game. With nan mobility to play powerfulness guardant and size, physicality, and interior skills to play center, Betts is nan uncommon imaginable that's projected to beryllium capable to commencement astatine either frontcourt spot successful some collegiate and master ball.

Zania Socka-Nguemen, F/C, 6-4, Sidwell Friends (DC) – No. 26 successful Class of 2024 – Indiana (rising sophomore – transportation from UCLA)

The last of 3 players connected nan squad pinch a twelvemonth of assemblage shot down them, Socka-Nguemen is connected her measurement to Indiana aft starting her profession astatine UCLA. She's a unit astatine powerfulness guardant who tin besides descent complete to halfway without sacrificing size aliases physicality. Socka-Nguemen didn't get overmuch tribunal clip arsenic a Bruin, but it's only a matter of clip earlier nan erstwhile 5-star precocious schoolhouse imaginable makes a sanction for herself successful nan Division I ranks.

Sydney Douglas, F, 6-6, Corona Centennial – No. 2 successful Class of 2028 – Uncommitted

One of nan astir hyped precocious schoolhouse prospects seen successful caller years, if not ever, Douglas has been a large sanction successful nan girls hoops world since astatine slightest seventh grade. Despite possessing size that would make galore all-conference assemblage centers jealous, she's a morganatic guardant imaginable pinch burgeoning perimeter skills and fluidity. After helping Ontario Christian triumph its first ever CIF-Southern Section Open Division title arsenic a freshman averaging 14 points, 9 rebounds, and 1.9 blocks, she'll play her sophomore twelvemonth astatine Corona Centennial. Let's conscionable opportunity she's a safe stake to make different quality down nan roadworthy connected Team USA's U19 roster.

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