Current UNC basketball forward [autotag]Alyssa Ustby[/autotag] has been named to the 2022 USA women’s basketball 3×3 U23 team. She will make her debut later this month when the competition takes place in the Dominican Republic from Aug. 13-19.
Aaliyah Moore (Texas), Maddy Siegrist (Villanova), Celeste Taylor (Duke), Kayla Wells (Texas A&M) and Maddy Westbeld (Notre Dame) join Ustby on the roster.
Ustby was one of 11 players who appeared at the USA Basketball tryouts. Before heading off to the Dominican Republic, she’ll take part in training camp Aug. 9-11.
Ustby averaged 12.9 points and 8.6 rebounds per game as a sophomore last season. She started all 32 games for the Tar Heels and earned All-ACC Second Team honors.
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The FIBA 3×3 Nations League is a 3×3 competition that began in 2017. UNC head coach Courtney Banghart spoke on the honor that Ustby will have.
“Alyssa earned the opportunity to try out for this team and played her way onto the roster with the relentlessness and versatility that we have come to trust in her game,” UNC coach Courtney Banghart said. “We are so enormously proud that she’ll be representing the Carolina blue while wearing the red, white, and blue as she goes for gold.”
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