The United States has chosen its 12-person women’s basketball team for the Olympics, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, and there will be a Blue Devil in Paris.
Chelsea Gray, who now plays for the Las Vegas Aces, was one of 12 names Charania said would make the squad.
Gray spent four seasons with Duke from 2010-14 and started 92 games across his collegiate career. She averaged 8.7 points as a freshman and improved on that number in each of the next two seasons, peaking at 12.6 points per game during her junior campaign. She also set personal bests with 5.3 rebounds and 3.6 steals in 2012-13.
She only played 17 games as a senior, scoring 10.8 points per game as a senior and dishing 7.2 assists per game.
Gray still holds the program record for total assists in a season, and she’s second in career assists, third in career steals, and 29th in career points.
The former Duke legend now plays for the Las Vegas Aces, where she has won the past two WNBA championships. She also took home a title in 2016 with the Los Angeles Sparks, and she was declared the Finals MVP in 2022.
She hasn’t played since she suffered a foot injury during the third game of last year’s WNBA Finals, but she averaged 15.3 points and 7.3 assists last season, both career-highs.
Sources: Team USA women’s basketball roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics – no Caitlin Clark:
A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner, Alyssa Thomas, Napheesa Collier, Jewell Loyd, Kelsey Plum, Jackie Young, Sabrina Ionescu, Chelsea Gray, Kahleah Copper https://t.co/m3TWncAZY3
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) June 8, 2024
Gray also won a gold medal with the U.S. women’s team in 2021. There will be at least one former Duke basketball player on both teams after the U.S. announced [autotag]Jayson Tatum[/autotag] made the men’s squad.
