Weisner Selected For Canada Exhibition Tourney
TORONTO, Ontario – Oregon State guard Jamie Weisner will join Team Canada May 28-30 for an exhibition tournament in Logrono, Spain, Canada Basketball announced today. The announcement comes as Canada prepares to close its spring training camp in preparation for this summer’s Pan-American Games and FIBA Americas Women’s Championship. Rosters for those events are expected to be announced in early June.
Weisner and Canada will play three games over the three-day span, beginning with a 10 a.m. PT game on May 28 against Poland. The team will close out the event by playing Great Britain at 10 a.m. on May 29 and facing Spain at 3 a.m. on May 30.
Weisner has earned extensive experience playing in the Canadian National System, most recently competing with Canada’s Senior B National Team in Taiwan in August of 2014, as she helped the squad to a tournament championship while averaging 10.8 points and 6.6 rebounds per game.
Weisner was one of three Beavers to make the All-Pac-12 First Team this year, after leading the team with 13.7 points per game. She ended the year second among Pac-12 guards with 6.2 rebound per game, and shot 50 percent from the field and 45.1 percent from 3-point range during conference play. Weisner scored over 20 points five times this season, and earned ESPNW National Player of the Week honors back in January, after recording a pair of 20-point games in a 7-day span.
The 2014-15 season was the best in Beaver history, 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.
Oregon State guard Sydney Wiese was named to the USA Basketball squad for this summer’s World University Games on Sunday. To learn more about her selection, click here.
On April 10, the Beavers announced an international tour to Italy this summer. For more information, click here.
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