With 12 gold medals, the USA now have twice as many as another crew (USSR, 6). The fifth consecutive title matches the feat achieved solely as soon as earlier than (USSR, 1959-1975). The USA have improved their World Cup win streak to 36 consecutive video games.
“I feel it simply exhibits the energy of our federation,” USA head coach Kara Lawson stated. “And actually the energy of our gamers. Within the largest moments, they proceed to play their greatest.”
Chelsea Grey was excellent within the commanding victory, ending with 12 factors, 5 assists and 4 rebounds. Grey was instrumental in main the USA in a stellar second half en path to the18-point win.
Lawson, serving as head coach for the primary time within the FIBA World Cup, pushed the U.S. to its twelfth FIBA World Cup gold medal and fifth straight.
America has now received 36 straight in World Cup motion. Jackie Younger was named the FIBA World Cup Ultimate Participant of the Sport.
Grey (12, 5) and Younger (18, 5) are the primary pair of teammates with 10+ factors and 5+ assists in a Ladies’s World Cup Ultimate.
Postgame Notes
It is All Takin’ and No Givin’
France received out to a scorching begin within the first half behind scorching taking pictures and eight 3-pointers. The French led 31-17 after taking a 13-0 run to begin the quarter. The U.S. clawed their method again to shut to a 43-45 deficit – the narrowest halftime margin in World Cup historical past – coming into halftime when Caitlin Clark linked on a 3-pointer with 3 seconds left. The USA relied on the veteran management of Jackie Younger (13 PT, 3 REB, 4 AST), Breanna Stewart (12 PT, 5 REB) and Chelsea Grey (10 PT, 2 REB, 3 AST) to get again into the competition.
Coat of Many Colours
Previous to beginning as an assistant coach with the USA Ladies forward of the 2022 FIBA Ladies’s World Cup, Kara Lawson was a coach within the USA 3×3 Nationwide Workforce program. As a head coach on the 3×3 senior degree, Lawson owns a 2020 Olympic girls’s gold medal and 2019 Pan American Video games males’s and ladies’s gold medals. She is the primary coach in USA historical past to personal head teaching gold medals at each the 3×3 and 5-on-5 ranges. Assistant coaches Natalie Nakase, Nate Tibbetts and Stephanie White grew to become first-time gold medalists in Berlin.
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