USA BASKETBALL HISTORY
USA WOMEN’S PAN AMERICAN GAMES TEAM 2007 RESULTS
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL • JULY 20-24, 2007
Youth was a fine substitute for experience at the 2007 Pan American Games. Comprised of college women who had the task of going against many foreign pros, the USA women, the youngest team in the field, became the first U.S. women’s basketball team to claim gold since 1987. The red, white and blue outscored host Brazil 30-13 in the fourth quarter of its July 24 championship tilt to capture a 79-66 win. Cuba finished third. In her first USA Basketball assignment as a head coach, Dawn Staley did what she always does - win. Staley, a five-time gold medal winner and three-time Olympian, improves her coaching record to 17-2 after spending 2006 as an assistant to the USA National Team. Matee Ajavon paced the U.S. in its opening 95-41 wallop of Colombia. Ajavon scored 15 points, and the red, white and blue sprung out to a 17-4 advantage five minutes into the contest, holding an 18-point lead, 32-14, after the first quarter. In charge 78-35 after three quarters, Team USA posted its largest advantage - 55 points - in the fourth quarter of the contest. Nine players scored at least five points. Emily Fox highlighted the red, white and blue scoring in game two, an 85-54 defeat of Argentina. Fox deposited 18 points off the bench. Team USA led 45-15 at the half after shooting 49 percent overall and 50 percent (8-of-16) from long range. Nicky Anosike and Marissa Cole- man had the most hauls off the glass with eight boards each, as the team doubled its opponents’ rebounding totals. Coleman tallied 19 points, as the USA took down two-time defending Pan Ams champ Panama 78-63 to improve to 3-0. Tasha Humphrey scored nine points in the third quarter, and the USA put the game out of reach with a 10-4 run to start the fourth quarter. Canada put pressure on the red, white and blue early in game four, mounting a nine-point lead early in the first period. That was the largest deficit the U.S. faced during the competition, but Angel McCoughtry took care of it, putting her team in front for good with five points near the seven-minute mark in the second quarter en route to a 75-59 semifinal victory. Playing in front of a host Brazilian crowd with the title on the line, the USA hopped on the Ajavon express and did whatever it could along
2007 USA WOMEN’S PAN AMERICAN GAMES TEAM ROSTER
2007 USA RESULTS (5-0)
NAME
POS HGT WGT AGE SCHOOL
HOMETOWN
Colombia Argentina
W, 95-41 W, 85-54 W, 78-63 W, 75-59 W, 79-66
Matee Ajavon Nicky Anosike Jayne Appel Marissa Coleman Alexis Hornbuckle Chardé Houston Tasha Humphrey Emily Fox
G
5-8 6-4 6-4 6-1 5-9 5-11 6-0 6-3
150 190 210 185 153 160 187 205 205 160 160 150
21 21 19 20 20 21 21 21 21 20 21 20
Rutgers
Newark, NJ
F/C
Tennessee Stanford Maryland Minnesota Tennessee Connecticut
Staten Island, NY Pleasant Hill, CA Cheltenham, PA Charleston, WV San Diego, CA Gainesville, GA Riviera Beach, FL Highlands Ranch, CO
Cuba
C
Canada
G/F
Brazil
G G
F F
Georgia
FINAL STANDINGS
Erlana Larkins
F/C
6-2 6-1 5-9
North Carolina
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
United States (5-0)
Angel McCoughtry
F
Louisville
Baltimore, MD Cincinnati, OH San Diego, CA
Brazil (4-1) Cuba (3-2)
Mel Thomas
G G
Connecticut
Candice Wiggins
5-11
Stanford
HEAD COACH: Dawn Staley, Temple University ASSISTANT COACH: Kathy Delaney-Smith, Harvard University ASSISTANT COACH: Bill Gibbons, The College of Holy Cross TEAM PHYSICIAN: Dr. Bruce Holladay, Crestview Hills, Kentucky ATHLETIC TRAINER: Julie Campbell, Denver University
Canada (2-3) Colombia (3-2) Argentina (1-4) Mexico (1-4) Jamaica (1-4)
2007 USA WOMEN’S PAN AMERICAN GAMES TEAM CUMULATIVE STATISTICS
NAME
G/S
FGM-A
PCT
3PM-A
PCT
FTM-A
PCT
REB
PTS
AST
BLK
STL
McCoughtry Humphrey
5/0 5/5 5/5 5/0 5/4 3/0 4/0 5/5 5/0 4/1 5/5 5/0
25-50 21/38 21-43 15/26 18-38
.500 .538 .488 .577 .474 .438 .500 .375 .647 .381 .280 .429 .474 .342
7-10
.700 .626 .467 .462 .375 .556 .250 .---
6-9 6-11 7-14 11-15 8-10 8-11
.667 .545 .500 .733 .800 .727 .750 .667 .500 .000 .000 .615 .645
28/5.6 27/5.4 7/1.4 21/4.2 32/6.4 6/1.2 12/2.4 20/5.0 20/4.0 22/4.4 2/0.7
63/12.6 58/11.6 56/11.2 47/9.4 44/8.8 25/8.3 25/6.3 30/6.0 24/4.8 19/4.8 15/3.0
4 7 9 7 2 2 6
2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 1
6 3 6 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 8 4
10-16
Ajavon
7-15 6-13 0-0
Coleman Anoskie Thomas
7-16 9-18
3-8 5-9
Fox
2-2 3-4 2-3 3-6 0-2 0-4
1.000 4/1.0
Wiggins
12-32 11-17
3-12 0-0 0-0 1-6 0- 0
10
Appel
.--- .---
3 2
Houston Hornbucke
8-21 7-25
.167
10
Larkins
3-7
.---
6/1.2
4
USA OPP.
5 5
157-331 95-278
42-89 24-87
.472 .276
56-91 68-107
216/43.2 146/29.2
412/82.4 283/56.6
72 44
16
54 39
8
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