UConn’s Sarah Robust and LSU’s Mikaylah Williams will characteristic for the U.S. senior nationwide crew in 3×3 ladies’s basketball this summer time.
The pair of collegiate stars had been named on Wednesday to the roster for the 2025 FIBA 3×3 Ladies’s Collection, which begins this weekend in Marseille, France. Robust and Williams, every coming off spectacular school seasons for the Huskies and Tigers, are becoming a member of on the roster by 3×3 veteran and Olympic medalist Cierra Burdick, and rising Oklahoma junior Sahara Williams.
Robust is coming off a stellar freshman season at UConn the place she was named Freshman of the 12 months by the WBCA and landed on a number of All-American groups. The versatile ahead averaged 16.4 factors, 8.9 rebounds and three.6 assists per recreation whereas serving to UConn win its twelfth nationwide championship. Within the 3×3 recreation, she is a three-time FIBA 3×3 U18 Ladies’s World Cup champion, profitable in 2022, 2023 and 2024. Final summer time, she additionally received gold on the FIBA U18 Ladies’s AmeriCup in Bucaramanga, Colombia.
A sophomore this previous season, Mikaylah Williams helped LSU advance to the Elite Eight for the second straight season by averaging 17.3 factors, 4.5 rebounds and three.4 assists per recreation. She was an honorable point out All-American and landed on the All-SEC First Staff. She’s received fairly a bit within the 3×3 ranks as effectively, capturing three U18 gold medals and twice being named USA Basketball 3×3 Feminine Athlete of the 12 months.
Burdick, who completed her school profession at Tennessee in 2015, has performed a bit within the WNBA and professionally abroad, however has shined within the 3×3 recreation, piling up 4 gold medals in FIBA competitors, after which serving to the Individuals seize the bronze on the 2024 Summer season Video games.
Sahara Williams has been a two-year starter at Oklahoma, averaging 10.5 factors and 5.1 rebounds per recreation. Like Robust and Mikaylah Williams, she received the 3×3 U18 World Cup title in 2022 and 2023.
