Arizona State University women’s basketball senior guard Katie Hempen earned a gold medal representing the United States as Team USA defeated Canada 82-63 in the 2015 World University Games championship game on Monday evening in Gwangju, South Korea. The gold medal is the USA women's sixth-straight and 10th overall in World University Games history.
Also bringing a medal back to Tempe will be Hempen’s Sun Devil teammate Quinn Dornstauder, who earned a silver medal as the junior center helped lead Canada to its best finish at the World University Games and its first medal since 1991.
The game’s deciding sequence came at the start of the fourth quarter as the USA used an 18-6 run to turn a tenuous 48-45 lead into a comfortable 66-51 advantage.