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USA women's basketball Olympic team roster for Paris Olympics – USA TODAY
After Diana Taurasi led the U.S. women’s national basketball team to its seventh consecutive Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021, she matter-of-factly announced to the world, “See you in Paris.” She wasn’t lying.
Taurasi is set to become the first basketball player in history, man or woman, to participate in six Olympic Games when she suits up for the red, white and blue. “I don’t have any words to describe it. It’s humbling. It’s an honor. I’m excited to go and get the journey started,” Taurasi said after the roster was unveiled earlier this month.
The American women are looking to continue their dynasty and win their eighth consecutive gold Olympic medal. They have experience on their side: Every basketball player on the U.S. women’s national team has won gold either at the Olympics or at the World Cup.
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The roster is made up of eight WNBA champions, three WNBA MVPs and five WNBA Rookies of the Year. Here’s who made the cut for the 2024 Paris Olympics:
The U.S. women’s 5×5 national team “features some of the best basketball talent our country has to offer,” head coach Cheryl Reeve said. The team not only has talent, but it boasts major international experience. The players that make up the 2024 U.S. women’s Olympic team have a combined 15 Olympic gold medals between them.
*Each asterisk marks the number of Olympic appearances, including 2024 Paris
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Cheryl Reeve, head coach of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx, will serve as the head coach of the 2024 USA women’s national team. Kara Lawson (Duke), Joni Taylor (Texas A&M) and Mike Thibault (Washington Mystics) will serve as Reeve’s assistant coaches. Reeve and her staff previously led the USA women to a gold medal at the 2022 FIBA Women’s World Cup.
Curt Miller (Los Angeles Sparks) and Tanisha Wright (Atlanta Dream) will assist the team as scouts.
The U.S. women’s national team will kick off the 2024 Paris Olympics with group play in Lille, France. USA women’s basketball is in Group C. Here’s the dates for the U.S. games:
USA women’s basketball has medaled in every Olympics it has participated, winning a total of 11 Olympic medals, including nine gold, one sliver and one bronze. Here’s how the U.S. women have performed since 1976, when women’s basketball debuted at the Montreal Olympics:
Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) are the only two American women’s basketball players to win five Olympic gold medals. Taurasi can become the first to earn six gold medals in Paris.
Here’s the Olympic medal count for every player on the U.S. women’s roster for Paris:
