Boston College Athletics
Jacobs To Take Part In USA National Team Trials
May 09, 2002 | Women's Basketball
May 9, 2002
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Boston College's Amber Jacobs (Clarks Summit, Pa./Abington Heights), who will be a rising junior on the women's basketball team, is among 35 players under the age of 20 invited to try out for the USA Basketball World Championship For Young Women Qualifying Team. The three-day team trials will be held May 17-19 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo.
If Jacobs is selected to the 12-member roster, she will compete in the Confederation of Pan American Basketball Associations For Young Women Qualifying Tournament. The tournament, which will be held in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil July 17-21, features teams from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean.
Of the 35 participants competing for a spot on the roster, Jacobs joins present BIG EAST players Jacqueline Batteast and Teresa Bortman of Notre Dame, Syracuse's Julie McBride and Cappie Pondexter of Rutgers.
Jacobs, who will try out for the second-consecutive year, was an intricate part of the Eagles' squad this past season. She concluded her sophomore season averaging 11.9 points, 2.5 rebounds while dishing out 110 assists. In a season where she started and played in all 31 games for head coach Cathy Inglese, Jacobs drilled 48 three pointers.
Here is a list of the 35 players selected to try out for the squad:
Jacqueline Batteast (Notre Dame), Tera Bjorklund (Colorado), Betsy Boardman (Arizona State), Teresa Borton (Notre Dame), Kala Bowers (Texas), Kara Brown-Braxton (Georgia), Shameka Christon (Arkansas), Ebony Felder (Georgia), Cisti Greenwalt (Texas Tech), Vanessa Hayden (Florida), SeSe Helm (Kentucky), Doneeka Hodges (LSU), Ebony Hoffman (Southern California), Sandora Irvin (Texas Christian), Dionnah Jackson (Oklahoma), Amber Jacobs (Boston College), Temeka Johnson (LSU), Laurie Koehn (Kansas State), Kelly Mazzante (Penn State), Julie McBride (Syracuse), Janel McCarville (Minnesota), Kristen O'Neill (Washington), Amber Obaze (Louisiana Tech), Ugo Oha (George Washington), Heather Schreiber (Texas), Stacy Stephens (Texas), Connecticut freshmen-to-be Ann Strother, Kelley Suminski (Georgia), Tanesheia (Gulf Coast Community College); Lindsay Whalen (Minnesota) and Dee-Dee Wheeler (Arizona).
