The USA Basketball Junior National Teams have their usual slate of competitions this summer, which features the FIBA U18 Women’s AmeriCup, which was completed in Colombia in June, and the FIBA U17 Women’s World Cup in Mexico beginning July 13.
The AmeriCup tournaments generally do not provide much competition for the USA squads until the medal rounds, as evidenced by their 79.2 margin of victory average prior to the gold medal game. The team had players from the 2024 and 2025 classes of 2024 and 2025 and several programs represented on the roster: South Carolina, USC (two), Texas, Florida, Duke, and UConn. Two rising seniors from the team are already committed as well — Sienna Betts to UCLA and Leah Macy to Notre Dame.
The U17 World Cup tournament will be more of a challenge. The top five ranked teams in the world in the age group will compete for the gold medal starting July 13. The 12-member squad is composed of highly recruited players from the classes of 2024, 2025, 2026, and 2027. Stanford has secured two commitments from rising seniors in the class of 2025 — Hailee Swain and Alex Eschmeyer — and class of 2024 point guard Lanie Grant is a North Carolina signee. The rest of the roster remains uncommitted.
Let’s look at the USA rosters as well as…
