Beginning next week, the 2025 Women’s AmeriCup basketball tournament will take place in Santiago, Chile. On Thursday, Team USA released its roster for the tournament. Making the team was USC rising sophomore Kennedy Smith.
Smith is coming off an impressive true freshman season at USC. On the year, she averaged 9.5 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.2 steals, and 2.0 assists per contest.
“Kennedy. Smith,” USC head women’s basketball head coach Lindsay Gottlieb wrote on social media following the announcement. “So dang proud. Great roster.”
The AmeriCup tournament will run from June 28 through July 6. The U.S. teams consists of the top women’s college basketball players in the country. (WNBA players are not able to participate due to it taking place in the middle of their season.)
Were she healthy, USC’s Juju Watkins would have likely been the headliner of the team. With Watkins currently recovering from the ACL tear she suffered during the NCAA Tournament, Smith is the only Trojan headed to Santiago.
This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: USC women’s basketball’s Kennedy Smith named to Team USA AmeriCup roster
Reporting by Adam Bradford, Trojans Wire / Trojans Wire
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