FAYETTEVILLE — Arkansas women's basketball coach Mike Neighbors was in Colorado Springs, Colo., last weekend taking in the USA Basketball 3x3 U18 National Championships when word began to spread.
Invitations to participate in the 2019 Pan American Games Team Trials were in the process of being sent out. One name being mentioned meant more to him than the others: Chelsea Dungee.
Neighbors then sent his sophomore sensation a text to inform her she would be among the estimated 24-36 players to receive one.
"It's really big. Getting an opportunity like this and having a chance to make the USA team, I'm not worried about or thinking about not being first team anymore," Dungee told WholeHogSports on Wednesday.