USA Basketball appointed former WNBA Most Beneficial Participant Elena Delle Donne as its first managing director for the 3×3 girls’s nationwide workforce Monday.
Delle Donne formally retired earlier this yr — she hadn’t performed since 2023 due partly to well being issues — and now the longtime Washington Mystics star will tackle an energetic function in guiding Group USA’s efforts in girls’s 3×3 hoops.
“USA Basketball was an essential a part of my on-court profession for a decade and a half. To have the chance to proceed my journey with the group, and to assist form and develop the 3×3 program, is one thing that I take very severely,” Delle Donne mentioned in a information launch. “Thanks to USA Basketball for trusting me with this function. I am excited to get began.”
Delle Donne was unanimously permitted by the governing physique’s board of administrators and rounds out a gaggle of ex-players in key management roles at USA Basketball.
Grant Hill has served because the managing director of the lads’s nationwide workforce since 2021; Jimmer Fredette was named the 3×3 males’s nationwide workforce’s managing director in Could; and Sue Chicken was chosen as the primary managing director of the ladies’s nationwide workforce, additionally in Could.
Delle Donne will quickly “determine USA 3×3 Ladies’s Nationwide Group teaching employees and gamers,” in keeping with USA Basketball. The largest worldwide competitors on the horizon, after all, is the 2028 Summer season Olympics in Los Angeles. Group USA additionally competes in FIBA competitions just like the 3×3 World Cup, the 3×3 Champions Cup and the 3×3 AmeriCup.
Three-on-three basketball, formally abbreviated as 3×3, was first staged on the Olympics in 2020. The US girls’s workforce received gold that yr however settled for Bronze final yr in Paris, when Germany took gold.
Delle Donne, 36, spent her 10-season WNBA profession with the Chicago Sky (2013-16) and Mystics (2017-19, 2021-23), with whom she received the 2019 WNBA title alongside together with her second MVP award following her first award in 2015.
A member of the WNBA twenty fifth Anniversary Group and the primary WNBA participant to put up a 50-40-90 taking pictures season, Delle Donne averaged 19.5 factors, 6.7 rebounds and 1.9 assists per recreation for her profession.
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