Allison and Seimone report for USA Basketball workouts

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The public will have a chance to see some of the country’s top basketball talent, including nine with ties to Connecticut, when members of the 2010 USA Basketball Women’s National Team take on the 2010 USA Basketball Women’s Select Team in a Red-White exhibition scrimmage on Sunday, April 18 in Hartford, Conn.


Fans will get a chance to cheer on some of their local favorites in the Red-White scrimmage. In addition to Auriemma, USA National Team members include former UConn standouts Swin Cash (Seattle Storm), 2010 NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player Tina Charles (Connecticut Sun), Renee Montgomery (Connecticut Sun) and current Husky Maya Moore; and the Connecticut Sun will also be represented on the USA National Team by Kara Lawson. UConn’s Kalana Greene (New York Liberty), and the Connecticut Sun’s Kelsey Griffin (Nebraska) and Allison Hightower (Louisiana State) will compete on the USA Select Team.

Additional USA National Team members participating in the spring training camp include: Seimone Augustus (Minnesota Lynx/LSU) , Candice Dupree (Phoenix Mercury) and Angel McCoughtry (Atlanta Dream). Further, USA National Team hopeful Jayne Appel (San Antonio Silver Stars / Stanford University), is injured, but is attending the USA National Team training camp in the hopes of being added to the squad at a later date.

Posted by Bill Martin