Hamblin Named To Canadian National Team
CORVALLIS – Oregon State women’s basketball center Ruth Hamblin has been named to the Canadian National Team for this summer’s World University Games, which will be played in South Korea. She will join fellow Beaver Sydney Wiese who will play for USA Basketball at the event, which will run from July 3-14.
The Canadian squad will prepare for the University Games by competing in an exhibition tournament in China, which will see them play six games from June 22-28. Teammate Jamie Weisner will also join the Canadian team during the exhibition games.
Hamblin and Weisner have both earned extensive experience in the Canadian National system over the last few years. Most recently, Hamblin joined the Senior Women’s National Team for an exhibition tour of Europe last summer. Weisner played with the Senior National Team in Spain last month, and traveled with Canada’s Senior B National Team to Taiwan in August of 2014, helping the team to a tournament championship while averaging 10.8 points and 6.6 rebounds per game.
Hamblin earned numerous honors for her performance with the Beavers this season, including AP Third Team All-America, Pac-12 Player of the Year (Media), Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year (Media and Coaches), All-Pac-12 (Media and Coaches) and Pac-12 All-Academic First Team honors. She averaged 12.9 points per game, and pulled down 8.6 rebounds per contest. Her total of 122 blocks this season was good for seventh in the nation and first in the conference. The 6-foot-6 Canadian is Oregon State’s all-time leader in career blocks with 295. Her career field goal percentage of 56.4 is good for third in school history, and her 58 percent shooting this year was eighth in the nation.
Weisner joined Hamblin on 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.
OSU will bring another strong squad into the 2015-16 season, as the Beavers return four starters, and will enter the season with a core group of eight upper-classmen. The team will also welcome in an excellent signing class made up of Katie McWilliams (Salem, Ore.), Taylor Kalmer (Phoenix, Ariz.) and Tarea Green (Hillsboro, Ore.). For more information on the recruiting class, click here.
On April 10, the Beavers announced an international tour to Italy this summer. For more information, click here.
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