MERIDA, Mexico — Purcell Marian Excessive College 2025 wing Dee Alexander is returning to Larger Cincinnati as a gold medalist.
Alexander helped USA Basketball’s U16 Ladies’s Nationwide Workforce defeat Canada 79-59 Monday night time within the gold medal sport of the FIBA U16 Americas Championships in Merida, Mexico.
Alexander scored three factors and had three rebounds, two assists and a steal within the championship sport.
The U16 staff, which has a 42-1 competitors report, gained its fourth consecutive gold medal. The staff has gained gold in seven of the previous eight occasions within the occasion. The staff has gained 24 consecutive video games.
It was the sixth assembly within the ultimate between USA and Canada within the historical past of the competitors.
The U.S. staff wasn’t critically challenged in the course of the week in Mexico. The U.S. staff defeated Argentina within the semifinals, 112-48, on Sunday at Poliforum Zamná.
Alexander scored a game-high 17 factors to associate with six rebounds, three assists and two steals in 93-29 win over Colombia June 14.
The worldwide occasion was one other alternative for Alexander to be within the highlight.
Alexander, Ohio’s Ms. Basketball this previous highschool season, led Purcell Marian to its second straight state title this previous March. The Cavaliers defeated Canal Fulton Northwest 57-48 to win the Division II state ultimate at College of Dayton Enviornment.
Alexander, the MaxPreps Ohio Participant of the 12 months, informed WCPO on June 16 she favored the expertise of taking part in in Mexico this month.
“Simply me assembly new individuals and me truly having the ability to discover some other place that is exterior of the USA,” Alexander stated. “Simply being right here in Merida, Mexico it’s totally enjoyable and I take pleasure in it.”
Alexander stated she constructed a particular bond along with her teammates because the trials portion of the U16 staff in late Might in Colorado Springs and thru the coaching camp that adopted.
Alexander stated final week the gold medal would signify every part to the U.S. staff.
“It might imply probably the most to us as a result of once we first obtained to Colorado at the start of the periods all of us made a purpose to win the gold medal,” Alexander stated. “So simply us figuring out that we obtained it and us constructing collectively – we consider in one another and we obtained it.”
The U.S. roster was chosen by the USA Basketball Ladies’s Developmental Nationwide Workforce Committee and represents the graduating lessons of 2025, 2026, 2027 and 2028. Athletes eligible for this staff should be U.S. residents, born on or after January 1, 2007.
Ranked the nation’s No. 4 participant within the 2025 class by ESPN, Alexander averaged 25.9 factors, 9.6 rebounds, 2.9 assists and a couple of.6 steals this previous season for Purcell Marian. She has scored 1,361 factors in her highschool basketball profession and is simply the second sophomore in Ohio women basketball historical past to seize Ohio Ms. Basketball honors.
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