USA MEN'S BASKETBALL U17 TEAM TRAINING CAMP INVITEES - ALL-MET ELITE

USA MEN'S BASKETBALL

 U17 TEAM

TRAINING CAMP

 INVITEES

ALL-MET ELITE

IMMANUEL QUICKLEY
THE JOHN CARROL SCHOOL
BEL AIR MD.

 

 Montez Mathis (Oak Hill Academy/Joppa, Md.)
 

Immanuel Quickley (John Carroll School/ Havre De Grace, Md.)

Jalen Smith (Mount Saint Joseph H.S./Baltimore, Md.)

 

The USA Basketball Men's U17 World Championship Team training camp will begin June 10-22 at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The athletes will participate in the training camp in hopes of being selected to represent the United States at the 2016 FIBA Men's U17 World Championship, June 23-July 3 in Zaragoza, Spain.

Training camp will get underway at 5 p.m. (MDT) on June 10, and the team will practice twice a day June 11-17. It is anticipated that finalists will be selected on June 12 and the final, 12-member team will be announced no later than June 17.

 

Invitations to the training camp were issued by the USA Basketball Developmental National Team Committee, chaired by USA Basketball men's national team director Sean Ford. Athletes eligible for this team must be 17 years old or younger (born on or after 1/1/99) and U.S. citizens.
"This training camp will be extremely competitive based upon the deep pool of talented players on the USA Junior National Team and how hard each player has worked to improve their games over the past year," said Ford. "Our strength as a team will be athletic ability, length and the quantity of players capable of playing multiple positions."

The U.S. will open FIBA U17 World Championship play on June 23 against Taiwan and will face Turkey on June 24. Following a day off, the USA will cap preliminary play against Egypt on June 26. After playing each of the teams in their preliminary round group, all teams advance to the round of 16 on June 28. Winners from the round of 16 advance to the medal round quarterfinals on June 30. The semifinals will be played on July 2, and the finals will be on July 3.