Fresh off winning a national championship, three UConn Huskies women’s basketball players will be heading to Belgrade, Serbia from July 1-11 to compete in the World University Games.
After surviving the initial cuts, Tina Charles, Maya Moore and Tiffany Hayes headed back to Colorado Springs to U.S. Olympic Training Center for another training camp on June 18th. Now they’ve endured another round of cut downs and will remain in Colorado Springs for training camp until they depart on Thursday for Serbia.
Here is the complete roster that will be heading to Serbia:
2009 USA WOMEN’S WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES TEAM ROSTER |
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| NAME | POS | HGT | WGT | DOB | YOG | SCHOOL | HOMETOWN |
| Tina Charles | C | 6-3 | 193 | 12/05/88 | 2010 | Connecticut | Jamaica, NY |
| Alexis Gray-Lawson | G | 5-8 | 160 | 04/21/87 | 2010 | California | Oakland, CA |
| Tiffany Hayes | G | 5-11 | 140 | 09/20/89 | 2012 | Connecticut | Lakeland, FL |
| Ashley Houts | G | 5-6 | 144 | 12/31/87 | 2010 | Georgia | Trenton, GA |
| Jantel Lavender | C | 6-4 | 210 | 11/12/88 | 2011 | Ohio State | Cleveland, OH |
| Danielle McCray | G/F | 5-11 | 169 | 10/08/87 | 2010 | Kansas | Olathe, KS |
| Jacinta Monroe | F/C | 6-5 | 166 | 09/04/88 | 2010 | Florida State | Ft. Lauderdale, FL |
| Maya Moore | F | 6-0 | 170 | 06/11/89 | 2011 | Connecticut | Lawrenceville, GA |
| Kayla Pedersen | G/F | 6-4 | 195 | 04/14/89 | 2011 | Stanford | Fountain Hills, AZ |
| Ta’Shia Phillips | C | 6-6 | 225 | 01/24/89 | 2011 | Xavier | Indianapolis, IN |
| Jeanette Pohlen | G | 5-11 | 168 | 05/02/89 | 2011 | Stanford | Brea, CA |
| Danielle Robinson | G | 5-8 | 130 | 05/10/89 | 2011 | Oklahoma | San Jose, CA |
| Head Coach: Charli Turner Thorne, Arizona State | |||||||
| Assistant Coach: Suzy Merchant, Michigan State | |||||||
| Assistant Coach: Julie Rousseau, Pepperdine | |||||||
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Team Physician: Mark Hutchinson, Chicago Sky
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| Athletic Trainer: Kelley Etheridge, Hiram, GA | |||||||
You can check out what Charles, Moore and Hayes as well as of the rest of the team has to say over at the Team USA World University Games website.
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