USA Basketball Announces 24 Invitees to Men’s U18 Training Camp

USA Basketball

Announces

24 Invitees to Men’s

U18 Training Camp

ALL-MET ELITE

EDITION

JAMES ROBINSON
DEMATHA H.S.

Twenty-four players have accepted invitations to attend the 2012 USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team Training camp June 5-12 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., including one player with college experience and three players who represented the USA in the 2012 Nike Hoop Summit. The USA Basketball Men’s Junior National Team committee issued the player invitations.

James Robinson (DeMatha Catholic H.S./Mitchellville, Md)

Jerami Grant (DeMatha Catholic/Bowie, Md.)

Nathaniel Britt, II (Gonzaga H.S., D.C./Upper Marlboro, Md)

Troy Williams (Phoebus H.S./Hampton, Va.)

Following the first three or four days of training camp from June 5-12 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOTC) in Colorado Springs, Colo., finalist for the team will be selected by the USA Men’s Junior National Team Com. The official, 12-member 2012 USA Men’s U18 National Team will be selected prior to the team’s departure for the 2012 FIBA Americas U18 Championship, which will be played June 16-20 in Sao Sebastiáo do Paraiso, Brazil. Players eligible for this competition must have been born on or after Jan. 1, 1994.mittee and will continue to train at the USOTC.  Eight teams will compete in the 2012 U18 zone qualifier, including the USA, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Mexico, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands. The top four finishing teams in the tournament will qualify for next summer’s 2013 FIBA U19 World Championship.