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 GW sophomore Jessica Adair (center) battles Ashley Paris for a rebound at the USA Basketball National Team Trials. Adair was named a finalist for the 2007 Pan American Games Team. |
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Jessica Adair Among Finalists for USA Basketball Pan American Games Team
May 20, 2007
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - George Washington sophomore Jessica Adair is one of 15 finalists for the 12-member 2007 USA Women's Pan American Games Team as announced by USA Basketball at the National Team Trials in Colorado Springs, CO, on Sunday.
Adair was among 45 invitees to the National Team Trials, which began Thursday, May 17, vying for a roster spot on either the 2007 FIBA U21 Women's World Championship or Pan American Games Teams. The USA Pan Ams finalists will reconvene on July 6 in Washington, DC, and the eventual 12-member squad will be named prior to the team departing for Brazil on July 16. The selections were made by the USA Basketball Women's Collegiate Committee, which is chaired by Sue Donohoe, the NCAA's vice president of Division I women's basketball.
The Pan American Games women's basketball tournament will be held July 20-24 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and will feature eight national teams from FIBA Americas. Coaching the USA squad will be Temple University head coach Dawn Staley, a 2007-08 USA Basketball Women's Senior National Team assistant coach. Assisting Staley will be collegiate head coaches Kathy Delaney-Smith of Harvard University and Bill Gibbons of College of the Holy Cross.
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Adair was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Conference First Team after averaging 12.9 points and a team-leading 7.6 rebounds per game for the Colonials in 2006-07. Adair also led GW with 52.8 percent field goal shooting, 52 blocks and 87 made free throws. She posted nine double-doubles this season, including a 15-point, 21-rebound effort against Boise State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in March. The 21 boards tied the fourth-most in NCAA Tournament history and were the most since North Carolina's Charlotte Smith grabbed 23 in the 1994 NCAA Championship game.
GW tied the school record with 28 victories, advanced to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16 for the first time since 1997, and finished the 2006-07 season ranked 11th in the final USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Top 25 poll. GW's .875 (28-4) winning percentage was the best in school history. Head coach Joe McKeown led the Colonials to their sixth straight regular-season league crown, 16th 20-win season and 14th NCAA Tournament appearance.
For more information, including the full 2007 USA Basketball Pan American Games Team release, please visit USABasketball.com.
