USA BASKETBALL HISTORY
USA WOMEN’S PAN AMERICAN GAMES TEAM 1999 RESULTS
WINNIPEG, CANADA • JULY 30-AUGUST 8, 1999
If medals were awarded on how far a team had come, then the1999 USA Pan American Games women’s basketball squad would have been a shoo-in for a gold. For a team that only began training together on July 17, a 4-3 overall record and the capturing of the bronze medal was remarkable feat, especially considering that the competition included both Brazil and Cuba who fielded teams that contained the nucleus of their 2000 Olympic teams. Playing it its first Pan Am competition since 1991, Amy Herrig and Michelle Marciniak came off the bench to account for 15 and 13 points, re- spectively, to spark the USA to a 63-55 victory over Argentina in the opener. One day later, the USA found points as hard to come by as Cuba took advantage of the American misses and routed the U.S. 95-64. Cuba, featuring nine players from its 1998 World Championship Team that finished seventh, not only scored the most points ever against a U.S. Pan Am team, but its 31 point margin of victory was the largest ever against the U.S. Lynn Pride finished with 15 points, Marciniak added 12 and Itoro Umoh tossed in 10 points. The USA seemed to get back on the winning track with a 92-80 victory of Dominican Republic as Pride scored 20 points. The USA record fell to 2-2 despite playing an impressive first half of basketball that saw the Americans jump out to a 47-34 halftime advan- tage, it wasn’t enough as undefeated Brazil rallied in the second half to outscore the U.S. 43-25 and claim a 77-72 victory in preliminary play. Edwina Brown led the USA with 16 points and nine rebounds. For the 15th consecutive time in Pan American Games play, the USA women came out on the winning end of a battle with Canada, as guards Marciniak and Brown combined to account for 32 points in the USA’s 62-46 win over the host Canadians on Aug. 4. The win earned the U.S. the No. 3 seed for the semifinals and a rematch with No. 2 seed Cuba. The USA’s attempt for revenge against Cuba for its first round loss fell short as Cuba earned an 87-78 win in semifinal play and eliminated the USA from the hunt for the gold medal. Brown led the U.S. with 18 points, and added four rebounds, six assists and five steals in 39 minutes. Pride added 15 points and six rebounds, Sylvia Crawley finished with 10 points and eight boards, and Marciniak added 10 points, five assists.
1999 USA WOMEN’S PAN AMERICAN GAMES TEAM ROSTER
1999 USA RESULTS (4-3)
NAME
POS HGT WGT AGE PRO TEAM/COLLEGE/HOMETOWN
Argentina
W, 63-55 L, 64-95 W, 92-80 L, 72-77 W, 62-46 L, 78-87 W, 85-59
Cuba
Edwina Brown Sylvia Crawley
F C G F C G
5-10
165 160 152 170 175 159 175 178 155 160 155 170
21 26 24 23 22 25 24 20 22 21 24 24
Texas `00 / Lockhart, TX
6-5 6-0 6-3 6-5 5-9 6-3 6-2 5-7 6-3
Portland Power / North Carolina `94 / Wintersville, OH Philadelphia Rage / Notre Dame `97 / Bloomington, IN San Jose Lasers / Notre Dame `97 / Wappingers Falls, NY
Dominican Republic
Beth Cunningham Katryna Gaither Michelle Marciniak Danielle McCulley Amy Herrig
Brazil
Canada
Iowa `99 / Dubuque, IA
Cuba Brazil
Nashville Noise / Tennessee `96 / Macungie, PA Portland Power / Western Kentucky `98 / Gary, IN
F/C F/G
Lynn Pride Itoro Umoh DeMya Walker Umeki Webb Dana Wynne
Kansas `00 / Arlington, TX Clemson `99 / Hephzibah, GA Virginia `99 / Mt. Holly, NJ
G
F
FINAL STANDINGS
G
5-10
Phoenix Mercury / North Carolina State `97 / Dallas, TX Colorado Explosion / Seton Hall ‘97 / Orange, NJ
F
6-2
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Cuba (6-1)
HEAD COACH: Nell Fortner, USA Basketball ASSISTANT COACH: Peggie Gillom, Texas A&M
Canada (3-4)
United States (4-3)
ASSISTANT COACH: Denise Curry, Cal State Fullerton TEAM PHYSICIAN: Dave Walden, Colorado Springs, CO ATHLETIC TRAINER: Chrissy Price, University of Washington
Brazil (5-2)
Argentina (2-4)
Dominican Republic (0-6)
1999 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
Marciniak
7/5 7/6 7/6 7/3 6/2 7/0 6/3 7/2 7/3 6/0 5/0 6/0
36- 78 35- 65 33- 78 15- 28 18- 48 11- 36 14- 31 10- 19
.462 .538 .423 .536 .375 .306 .452 .526 .391 .429 .429 .400 .444 .444
6- 18
.333 .667 .000 .000 .000 .313
16- 19 21- 26 24- 34 16- 18
.842 .808 .706 .889 .818 .667 .714 .625 .500 .750 .779 .772
18/ 2.6 36/ 5.1 49/ 7.0 34/ 4.9 28/ 4.7 4/ 0.6 19/ 3.2 18/ 2.6
94/13.4 93/13.3 90/12.9 46/ 6.6 45/ 7.5 36/ 5.1 33/ 5.5 25/ 3.6 24/ 3.4 15/ 2.5 8/ 1.6
27 28 18
0 2 5 1 4 0 5 1 0 0 0 0
11 17 11
Brown Pride Herrig
2- 3 0- 2 0- 1 0- 4 0- 0 0- 0 1- 5 0- 2 0- 0 0- 0
8 5 2 2 1 9 5 2 0
3 1 1 1 6 7 3 0 2
McCulley
9- 11 4- 6
Cunningham
10- 32
Crawley Wynne Umoh Webb Walker Gaither
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5- 7 5- 8 5- 5 3- 3 2- 4 3- 4
9- 23 6- 14
.200 .000
1.000 12/ 1.7 1.000 4/ 0.7
3- 7 2- 5
.--- .---
13/ 2.6 8/ 1.3
7/ 1.2
USA OPP.
7 7
192-432 182-410
19- 67 30- 81
.284 .370
113-145 105-136
272/38.9 215/30.7
516/73.7 499/71.3
104
18 22
63 67
96
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