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UConn Women's Basketball Present, Future Earn Spots On U.S. National Teams

UConn placed four players on USA Basketball national teams that will play for international championships this summer.

Incoming freshmen Katie Lou Samuelson and Napheesa Collier will play for USA Basketball's U-19 team. All-Americans Breanna Stewart and Moriah Jefferson made the Pan American Games team.

Also on the U-19 team is Crystal Dangerfield, one of the two players to have offered verbal commitments to the Class of 2016. High school center Lauren Cox of Texas, who the Huskies are seriously pursuing, will join her.

Cox, Dangerfield and Samuelson competed on the 2013 USA U16 National Team that won gold at the FIBA Americas and qualified the U.