Weisner Named Alternate for Pan-Am Games
CORVALLIS – Oregon State women’s basketball guard Jamie Weisner has been named an alternate for the Canadian National team's Pan American Games squad, and will join the team for training in Edmonton, beginning June 30. Canada will confirm its final 12-player roster for the Pan American Games prior to the event, which will be played in Toronto from July 16-25. Should Weisner be selected to the final squad, she could cross paths with Oregon State head coach Scott Rueck in Toronto, as Rueck serves as an assistant coach for Team USA.
Weisner will be joined in international play this summer by Oregon State teammates Ruth Hamblin and Sydney Wiese, who will represent Canada and the USA, respectively, at the World University Games from July 3-14 in Gwangju, South Korea. Hamblin and Weisner will also play together for Canada in an exhibition tournament in China, which will see them play six games from June 22-28.
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.
The Exercise and Sport Science major was one of three Beavers to earn Pac-12 First Team honors in 2014-15, 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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