USA Basketball will bring three former college basketball stars and one current NCAA player to Paris to defend their gold medal in women’s 3×3 basketball at the 2024 Olympics.
The five players represent Stanford, TCU, Tennessee, Kentucky and Wake Forest
Jennifer Rizzotti, president of the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun, will serve as the head coach, and she will be assisted by Tammi Reiss. Rizzotti played at UConn and was previously the head coach at Hartford and George Washington. Reiss was a four-year star at Virginia and is now the head coach at Rhode Island.
2024 U.S. Olympic women’s 3×3 basketball team
| PLAYER | SCHOOL (YEAR) | POSITION |
|---|---|---|
| Cameron Brink* | Stanford (2024) | Center |
| Hailey Van Lith | TCU (Present) | Guard |
| Cierra Burdick | Tennessee (2015) | Forward |
| Rhyne Howard | Kentucky (2022) | Guard |
| Dearica Hamby* | Wake Forest (2015) | Forward |
Cameron Brink suffered an injury during the 2024 WNBA regular season that led to her Los Angeles Sparks teammate Dearica Hamby replacing her on the Olympic 3×3 roster.
Cameron Brink
Brink dominant college career led to her being selected with the No. 2 pick of the 2024 WNBA draft. In college, Brink won a national championship in 2021, was a three-time All-American and the 2024 national defensive player of the year.
KEY DETAILS
School: Stanford
Career averages: 14.0 ppg, 9.1 rpg, 3.1 bpg, 1.7 apg
Current WNBA team: Los Angeles Sparks
WNBA career averages: 8.8 ppg, 5.4 rpg, 2.6 bpg, 2.1 apg
CAREER HONORS
- Second overall pick in the 2024 WNBA draft by the Los Angeles Sparks
- NCAA champion (2021)
- Four-time Pac-12 champion (2021-24)
- Two-time Pac-12 tournament champion (2021-22)
- Naismith Defensive Player of the Year (2024)
- WBCA Defensive Player of the Year (2023)
- Three-time WBCA All-America (2022-24)
- Three-time Associated Press All-America (2022-24)
- USBWA All-America First Team (2024)
- USBWA All-America Second Team (2023)
- USBWA All-America Third Team (2022)
- Two-time Wooden Award All-America (2023-24)
- Lisa Leslie Award (2024)
- Naismith Defensive Player of the Year Finalist (2022)
- Two-time Katrina McClain Award Finalist (2022-23)
- Pac-12 Player of the Year – Coaches and Media (2024)
- Pac-12 Player of the Year – Media (2022)
- Three-time Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year – Coaches and Media (2022-24)
- Four-time All-Pac-12 – Coaches and Media (2021-24)
- Three-time Pac-12 All-Defensive Team – Coaches and Media (2022-24)
- Two-time NCAA tournament Regional All-Tournament Team (2021-22)
- Three-time Pac-12 All-Tournament Team (2021-23)
- Rainbow Wahine Showdown All-Tournament Team (2022)
- 12-time Pac-12 Player of the Week (Nov. 29, 2021; Jan. 17, 2022; Jan. 31, 2022; Feb. 7, 2022; Dec. 19, 2022; Jan. 9, 2023; Jan. 30, 2023; Nov. 20, 2023; Nov. 27, 2023; Jan. 8, 2024; Jan. 29, 2024; March 4, 2024)
- Associated Press National Player of the Week (March 5, 2024)
- USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Week (Feb. 13, 2024)
- USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale National Player of the Week (Nov. 14, 2023)
- Naismith Trophy Player of the Week (Feb. 8, 2022)
- Pac-12 All-Freshman Team (2021)
- CalHOPE Courage Award (2022)
Hailey Van Lith
Van Lith transferred to TCU prior to the 2024-25 season. She played the first three seasons of her career at Louisville, where she was honored as first-team All-ACC twice. Van Lith then transferred to LSU, where she played one season for Kim Mulkey before announcing plans to transfer to TCU.
KEY DETAILS
School: TCU, LSU, Louisville
Career averages: 14.4 ppg, 3.9 rpg, 2.8 apg, 1.3 spg
CAREER HONORS
- Only active Division I player who has tallied at least 1,900 career points, 500 rebounds and 350 assists
- Five-time FIBA gold medalist
- 2023 FIBA 3×3 World Cup gold medalist
- 2023 AP and USBWA honorable mention All-American
- 2023 Drysdale Award finalist
- Two-time first team All-ACC (2022, 2023)
- 2023 College Sports Communicators second team Academic All-American
- Three-time All-ACC Academic team selection (2021-23)
- 2021 NCAA Final Four
- Four-time NCAA Elite Eight participant (2021-24)
- 2020 McDonald’s All-American
- 2020 Washington Miss Basketball
- 2019 FIBA 3×3 U18 World Cup MVP
- 2018 USA Basketball 3×3 U18 National Championship MVP
Cierra Burdick
Cierra Burdick was a four-year player at Tennessee before beginning her lengthy professional career. She is the only two-time world champion in 3×3 for Team USA basketball.
KEY DETAILS
School: Tennessee
Career averages: 8.1 ppg, 6.0 rpg, 1.8 apg
Current WNBA team: N/A
WNBA career averages: 1.8 ppg, 1.4 rpg, 0.5 apg
CAREER HONORS
- WNBA Second Round Draft Pick (14th pick, Los Angeles Sparks) — 2015
- AP Honorable Mention All-American — 2015
- NCAA Spokane Regional All-Tournament Team — 2015
- Coaches All-SEC First Team — 2015
- AP All-SEC Second Team — 2015
- SEC All-Tournament Team — 2015
- College Sports Madness All-SEC Second Team — 2015
- CoSIDA Academic All-America Second Team — 2015
- SEC H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship Nominee — 2015
- NCAA Jim McKay Scholarship Winner — 2015
- Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholar — 2014-15
- SEC Community Service Team — 2015
- SEC Academic Honor Roll — 2015
- CoSIDA Academic All-District Team (District 3) — 2015
- UT Torchbearer — 2015
- Volscars Miss Tennessee — 2015
- SEC Player of the Week — 2014-15 (2/2)
- College Sports Madness SEC & National Player of the Week — 2014-15 (2/2)
- SEC Co-Player of the Week — 2014-15 (1/12)
- All-State, WBCA Good Works Team Nominee — 2014
- SEC All-Tournament — 2014
- SEC Community Service Team — 2014
- SEC Academic Honor Roll — 2014
- Volscars Female Best Supporting Role Award — 2014
- SEC Player of the Week — 2013-14 (2/3)
- SEC Academic Honor Roll — 2013
- SEC Player of the Week — 2012-13 (3/4)
- SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll — 2012
- SEC Freshman of the Week — 2011-12 (2/20)
Rhyne Howard
Howard put together an impressive college career at Kentucky, where she was named the national freshman of the year and later won SEC player of the year twice (2021, 2022). Howard’s college success led to her being selected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 WNBA Draft.
KEY DETAILS
School: Kentucky
Career averages: 20.1 ppg, 6.9 rpg, 2.9 apg, 2.3 spg
Current WNBA team: Atlanta Dream
WNBA career averages: 16.9 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 3.2 apg, 1.4 spg
CAREER HONORS
- 6x SEC Player of the Week
- 2x espnW National Player of the Week
- 2x Naismith Trophy National Player of the Week (2021, 2022)
- NCAA Starting 5 of the Week (2021)
- 8x SEC Freshman of the Week
- USBWA National Freshman of the Week
- SEC Player of the Year by league coaches (2020, 2021)
- SEC Freshman of the Year by league coaches (2019)
- All-SEC First Team by league coaches (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
- SEC All-Defensive Team (2020)
- All-SEC Second Team by Associated Press (2019)
- SEC All-Freshman Team by league coaches (2019)
- SEC Newcomer of the Year by Associated Press (2019)
- espnW National Freshman of the Year (2019)
- WBCA National Freshman of the Year (2019)
- USBWA National Freshman of the Year (2019)
- WBCA All-America Honorable Mention (2019, 2020)
- WBCA All-America First Team (2021, 2022)
- WBCA Wade Trophy Finalist (2021, 2022)
- Citizen Naismith Trophy Finalist Top 4 (2020, 2021)
- Citizen Naismith Trophy Semifinalist (2022)
- John R. Wooden Award National Ballot (2020, 2021, 2022)
- John R. Wooden Award All-American (2020, 2021, 2022)
- Cheryl Miller Award Finalist (2020, 2021, 2022)
- Associated Press All-America First Team (2020, 2021, 2022)
- USBWA All-America First-Team (2020, 2021, 2022)
- USBWA Ann Meyers Drysdale Award Finalist (2020, 2021)
- Dawn Staley Award Finalist (2020, 2021, 2022)
- Honda Sport Award Finalist (2021, 2022)
- Senior CLASS Award Finalist (2022)
- SEC Tournament MVP (2022)
- SEC All-Tournament Team (2020, 2021, 2022)
Dearica Hamby
Howard put together an impressive college career at Kentucky, where she was named the national freshman of the year and later won SEC player of the year twice (2021, 2022). Howard’s college success led to her being selected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 WNBA Draft.
Hamby has helped lead the USA 3×3 team to the 2023 Americup title, winning tournament MVP honors.
KEY DETAILS
School: Wake Forest
Career averages: 14.0 ppg, 7.9 rpg, 1.4 apg, 1.7 spg
Current WNBA team: Los Angeles Sparks
WNBA career averages: 9.2 ppg, 5.7 rpg, 1.4 apg, 0.9 spg
CAREER HONORS
- No. 6 pick in the 2015 WNBA draft by San Antonio (Now Las Vegas Aces)
- Wake Forest’s all-time leading scorer (1,801 points)
- Wake Forest’s all-time leading rebounder (1,021 rebounds)
- 2015 All-America honorable mention (WBCA and Associated Press)
- 2015Wade Trophy Finalist
- 2015 WBCA All-Region selection
- 2014 & 2015 First-Team ALL ACC
- 2014 Wake Forest Female Athlete of the Year
- Wake Forest single-season points record (683, 2014)
- Wake Forest single-season double-double record (21, 2014)