Cameron Brink, Cierra Burdick, Rhyne Howard and Hailey Van Lith will make up the 2024 US Olympic women’s 3×3 basketball team seeking a second consecutive gold medal. USA Basketball Announced On Wednesday.
Three of the four team members, Brink, Burdick and Van Lith, represented the United States at FIBA 2023. 3×3 World Cup, which ended with a gold medal. Burdick was on the team that won the event in 2014.
The four players recently participated in the national 3×3 team camp in Springfield, Massachusetts, and participated in the FIBA Women’s 3×3 Series Springfield Stop, where they were runners-up to Canada.
The American women won the inaugural tournament during the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, beating the Republic of China 18-15 in the gold medal game.
The Olympic women’s 3×3 team will be led by head coach Jennifer Rizzotti, who currently serves as president of the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun.
The difference between the 3×3 game and the 5×5 game is that the games last 10 minutes with a 12-second shot clock and are played on half court. The games are 21 points with 1 and 2 point baskets. If a team does not reach 21 points, whoever is in the lead when time runs out will be declared the winner.
Two members of the team are currently playing in the WNBA, with Brink, 22, in her rookie season with the Los Angeles Sparks, and Howard, 24, playing her third year with the Atlanta Dream. Burdick, 30, played five seasons with six WNBA teams and has played in Europe since 2021. Van Lith, 22, transferred to TCU this spring after spending the 2023-24 season at LSU and her first three years in college in Louisville.