Wiese Gets Team USA Call-Up
CORVALLIS - Oregon State guard Sydney Wiese has earned her first ever call-up to represent her country, USA Basketball announced this morning. Wiese will be part of the Team USA squad that will compete in this summer’s World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea from July 3-14.
The announcement came at the end of USA Basketball’s weekend long tryout period, which featured 51 players battling for a total of 24 spots. Wiese will join Oregon State head coach Scott Rueck in representing the Stars and Stripes this summer, as the Beavers’ head-man heads to Toronto to help coach Team USA’s Pan-American Games squad.
Wiese earned All-Pac-12 First Team honors for the second consecutive season this year, scoring 12.7 points per game and finishing the year second in the conference with 179 assists. Wiese shot 44.9 percent from the field, 41.8 percent from 3-point range, and led the Beavers with an average of 32.5 minutes per game.
The point guard earned national recognition during the season, being named a Lieberman Award Semifinalist and to the Naismith Award Preseason Watch List. Despite completing just two seasons with the Beavers, Wiese has already made her way into the Oregon State record book, setting the single-season mark for 3-pointers in her freshman campaign and becoming the Beavers’ career leader in long-balls this season with 205. She also sits first on OSU history with a 3-point percentage of 42.1.
Wiese helped lead the Beavers to the best year in school history in 2014-15, as Oregon State set a school record with 27 wins en route to the program’s first ever Pac-12 title. Along the way Oregon State proved it could beat the nation’s best teams, as it took down North Carolina on the road, swept Arizona State and defeated California.
The Beavers were in the national rankings throughout the season, moving as high as No. 7 before ending the season ranked 13th. Oregon State ranked in the top 25 in the country in eleven different statistical categories, including fifth in assists per game (18.6), ninth in field goal percentage (45.4) and 13th in field goal percentage defense (35.2). The historic season led to an increase in attendance, as the Beavers averaged a Pac-12 leading 4,167 fans per game, and welcomed 7,652 fans to Gill Coliseum for the Civil War on Jan. 9, the third-largest crowd in school history.
Wiese’s teammates Ruth Hamblin and Jamie Weisner are both currently participating in Canada’s training camp, which is set to conclude on May 24.
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