DePaul University Athletics
Bruno and USA Basketball Women's National Team in Las Vegas
5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM | WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
CHICAGO -- DePaul head women's basketball coach Doug Bruno heads to Las Vegas for a three-day USA Basketball Training Camp, May 4-6 at UNLV's Mendenhall Center in Las Vegas.
Bruno, who was named an assistant coach through the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in February, has been on the Women's National Team staff as an assistant coach since 2009. As an assistant of head coach Geno Auriemma the USA National Team has gone 23-0 record and gold medals at the 2010 and 2014 FIBA World Championships and the 2012 Olympic Games. Minnesota Lynx' Cheryl Reeve and University of South Carolina's Dawn Staley are also assistants for the USA National Team.
"DePaul University and DePaul Athletics are directly responsible for my opportunity to represent The United States on the National Stage," Doug Bruno said before departing for Las Vegas on Friday.
"I owe a huge amount of gratitude to DePaul President, Fr. Dennis Holtschneider and DePaul Athletics Director Jean Lenti-Ponsetto. A college coach could not work for and with better leadership!
"I can only leave my team to coach internationally because of my extraordinarily talented staff who are a dedicated leaders and competitors.
"The opportunity to be a member of The USA Basketball National Team coaching staff is the biggest honor in coaching.
"USA Basketball coaching is always about the people -- Jerry Collangelo, Jim Tooley and Carol Callan are the absolute best!
"Geno Auriemma is so much more than just a great and championship coach; he is also an excellent, live and fun person to coach with.
"My fellow assistant coaches, Dawn Staley and Cheryl Reeve, together with court coaches Jen Rizzotti and Chris Daley also make the USA Basketball National Team experience extra special.
"The greatest people of all are The USA National Team players! Not only are they the are the most talented players in the world, they are also most importantly great people, who are super teammates and ultra competitive."
USA Basketball Release
With an eye toward the 2016 Olympic Games and working to defend its streak of five-straight Olympic gold medals, the USA Basketball Women's National Team will hold a three-day training camp May 4-6 at UNLV's Mendenhall Center in Las Vegas.
All available members of the 2014-16 USA Basketball Women's National Team are expected to participate in the training camp. The 34-player USA National Team pool currently includes: Jayne Appel (San Antonio Stars), Seimone Augustus (Minnesota Lynx), Sue Bird (Seattle Storm), DeWanna Bonner (Phoenix Mercury), Tamika Catchings (Indiana Fever), Tina Charles (New York Liberty), Elena Delle Donne (Chicago Sky), Skylar Diggins (Tulsa Shock), Stefanie Dolson (Washington Mystics), Candice Dupree (Phoenix Mercury), Sylvia Fowles (Chicago Sky), Brittney Griner (Phoenix Mercury), Bria Hartley (Washington Mystics), Briann January (Indiana Fever), Glory Johnson (Tulsa Shock), Jantel Lavender (Los Angeles Sparks), Kara Lawson (Washington Mystics), Kayla McBride (San Antonio Stars), Angel McCoughtry (Atlanta Dream), Maya Moore (Minnesota Lynx), Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis (University of Connecticut), Chiney Ogwumike (Connecticut Sun), Nnemkadi Ogwumike (Los Angeles Sparks), Candace Parker (Los Angeles Sparks), Cappie Pondexter (Chicago Sky), Danielle Robinson (San Antonio Stars), Odyssey Sims (Tulsa Shock), Breanna Stewart (University of Connecticut), Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury), Alyssa Thomas (Connecticut Sun), Courtney Vandersloot (Chicago Sky), Lindsay Whalen (Minnesota Lynx), Monica Wright (Minnesota Lynx) and Sophia Young (San Antonio Stars).
USA National Team and University of Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma, who since being selected to coach the USA Basketball Women's National Team in 2009 has piloted the USA National Team to an overall 23-0 record and gold medals at the 2010 and 2014 FIBA World Championships and the 2012 Olympic Games, will be assisted through the 2016 Olympic Games by DePaul University's Doug Bruno, the Minnesota Lynx' Cheryl Reeve and University of South Carolina's Dawn Staley.
The 2016 Olympic Games will be held Aug. 5-21 in Rio de Janeiro. A total of 12 nations will compete in the Olympic women's basketball competition, including host Brazil and the USA, which earned its berth by virtue of claiming the gold medal at the 2014 FIBA World Championship. The gold-medal winning nations from each of the five FIBA zone Olympic qualifying tournaments in 2015 also will punch their tickets to Rio, while the remaining berths will be awarded to the top five finishing teams at the 2016 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament (dates and site TBD).
U.S. Olympic women's basketball teams have earned a record seven gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal, and are 58-3 all-time in Olympic competition. The 2016 U.S. team will enter Rio riding a 41-game Olympic winning streak that dates back to the 1992 Barcelona Olympics bronze medal game.
Since the inception of the 1995-96 USA Basketball Women's National Team program, the USA National Team, in addition to its record five-straight Olympic gold medals, has captured four FIBA World Championship gold medals, one FIBA World Championship bronze medal and one FIBA Americas Championship gold medal, while compiling a remarkable 86-1 record for a .989 winning percentage in those events. Further, USA National Teams in exhibition contests since 1995 boast of a 186-15 record (.925 winning percentage).
The final 12-player 2016 U.S. Olympic Women's Basketball Team will be selected from the 2014-16 USA National Team pool by the USA Basketball Women's National Team Player Selection Committee. Chaired by USA Basketball women's national team director Carol Callan, the committee includes WNBA appointees Reneé Brown, WNBA chief of basketball operations and player relations; Dan Hughes, head coach and general manager of the San Antonio Stars; and Chris Sienko, vice president and general manager of the Connecticut Sun; and three-time Olympic and two-time FIBA World Championship gold medalist Katie Smith, who played in nearly 200 games for USA Basketball from 1993-2008, and serves as the athlete representative.
