The Maryland women’s basketball team will travel to Taiwan next summer to represent the United States in the World University Games.
The World University Games are a biannual deal. It’s a multiple-sport event, specifically for athletes between 17 and 24. They come, as the event’s name suggests, from all over the world. Everyone has to either be a college student or have been one within a year, and it sounds kind of like an Olympics for college kids.
It’s exceedingly rare for entire college teams to get these sorts of trips. The only women’s basketball team to ever do it before was UNC Charlotte in 2007.