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Lawson Tapped Head Coach for 2025 USA Women’s AmeriCup Team
5/6/2025 11:30:00 AM | Women's Basketball
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – Duke women's basketball head coach Kara Lawson has been tapped the head coach for the 2025 Women's AmeriCup Team, USA Basketball announced Tuesday morning.
"I'm incredibly honored to be named the 2025 Women's AmeriCup Head Coach by USA Basketball," said Lawson. "The opportunity to work with some of the top players in the country, and the opportunity to coach alongside some of the top coaches in the country is something I'm very excited about. I always look forward to serving USA Basketball in any capacity that I am asked.
The 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup is set to take place June 28-July 6 in Santiago, Chile. Lawson will be joined on the bench by assistants DeLisha Milton-Jones (Old Dominion University) and Jennie Baranczyk (University of Oklahoma). The coaches were selected by the USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team Committee.
No stranger to USA Basketball, Lawson brings in a myriad of coaching experience with Team USA, most notably winning gold medals as an assistant coach at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and as head coach with the inaugural U.S. Olympic 3x3 Women's Basketball Team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020. Lawson's USA Basketball coaching resume speaks for itself having compiled a 75-5 (.938) overall record while leading the team to nine gold medals. In addition to her Olympic coaching success, she has won gold medals at the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup, 2017 and 2019 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cups, 2019 Pan American Games (3x3) and 2018 Youth Olympic Games (3x3).
Lawson is entering her sixth season with the Blue Devils after leading the team to a 29-8 overall mark, the ACC Tournament Championship and the NCAA Elite Eight in 2024-25. She began her USA Basketball career as an athlete in 1998, winning the bronze medal at the World Youth Games. Through her tenure as a player, Lawson captured gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games, 2007 FIBA Americas Championship and the 2001 World University Games.
"It's such a gift. It's a gift that has given me so much over the years as a player, as a committee member and as a coach," Lawson added. "I've always tried to compete and give my best in the different roles I've been given. That won't change this summer. The goal is to put together a competitive team, one that represents all the standards we hold dear to us. The number one standard being excellence. I'm eagerly anticipating the journey together as we chase another gold medal for the United States."
Since the event's inception in 1993, the United States has captured four AmeriCup gold medals, including titles in 2019 and 2021.
In addition to the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico and Puerto Rico will participate in the 2025 FIBA AmeriCup. As previously announced by FIBA, the USA will open Group B with contests against Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Game times and schedule have yet to be released.
The 2025 USA Women's AmeriCup Team will be announced following trials in June in Colorado Springs. For more information about the 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup, click here.
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"I'm incredibly honored to be named the 2025 Women's AmeriCup Head Coach by USA Basketball," said Lawson. "The opportunity to work with some of the top players in the country, and the opportunity to coach alongside some of the top coaches in the country is something I'm very excited about. I always look forward to serving USA Basketball in any capacity that I am asked.
The 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup is set to take place June 28-July 6 in Santiago, Chile. Lawson will be joined on the bench by assistants DeLisha Milton-Jones (Old Dominion University) and Jennie Baranczyk (University of Oklahoma). The coaches were selected by the USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team Committee.
No stranger to USA Basketball, Lawson brings in a myriad of coaching experience with Team USA, most notably winning gold medals as an assistant coach at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris and as head coach with the inaugural U.S. Olympic 3x3 Women's Basketball Team at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020. Lawson's USA Basketball coaching resume speaks for itself having compiled a 75-5 (.938) overall record while leading the team to nine gold medals. In addition to her Olympic coaching success, she has won gold medals at the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup, 2017 and 2019 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cups, 2019 Pan American Games (3x3) and 2018 Youth Olympic Games (3x3).
Lawson is entering her sixth season with the Blue Devils after leading the team to a 29-8 overall mark, the ACC Tournament Championship and the NCAA Elite Eight in 2024-25. She began her USA Basketball career as an athlete in 1998, winning the bronze medal at the World Youth Games. Through her tenure as a player, Lawson captured gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games, 2007 FIBA Americas Championship and the 2001 World University Games.
"It's such a gift. It's a gift that has given me so much over the years as a player, as a committee member and as a coach," Lawson added. "I've always tried to compete and give my best in the different roles I've been given. That won't change this summer. The goal is to put together a competitive team, one that represents all the standards we hold dear to us. The number one standard being excellence. I'm eagerly anticipating the journey together as we chase another gold medal for the United States."
Since the event's inception in 1993, the United States has captured four AmeriCup gold medals, including titles in 2019 and 2021.
In addition to the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico and Puerto Rico will participate in the 2025 FIBA AmeriCup. As previously announced by FIBA, the USA will open Group B with contests against Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Mexico. Game times and schedule have yet to be released.
The 2025 USA Women's AmeriCup Team will be announced following trials in June in Colorado Springs. For more information about the 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup, click here.
To stay up to date with Duke women's basketball, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook and subscribe to the YouTube channel by searching "DukeWBB."
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