COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. –Vanderbilt women’s basketball All-Americans Mikayla Blakes and Khamil Pierre have an opportunity to represent the Red, White and Blue, as both were selected to the 2025 USA Basketball Women’s AmeriCup Team trials on June 17-19 at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center.
Blakes and Pierre will be two of 21 players heading to Colorado Springs, Colorado, looking to make the 12-member Team USA roster for the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup, which takes place in Santiago, Chile, June 28-July 6.
It will be the second time that Blakes has played for Team USA, as she donned the Stars and Stripes at the 2024 Nike Hoops Summit. For Pierre, the USA Basketball Women’s AmeriCup Team trials will be her first event for Team USA.
In May, the pair of All-Americans teamed up with Vanderbilt teammates Justine Pissott and Sacha Washington to represent the Commodores at the USA Basketball 3X Nationals in Mesa, Arizona.
Blakes averaged a team-best 23.3 points per game en route to being named the USBWA Tamika Catchings National Freshman of the Year and SEC Freshman of the Year. She was named an All-American by seven different publications during her freshman season.
Pierre tallied 20.4 points and a team-best 9.6 rebounds in 2024-25 and was named to the WBCA All-American honorable mention team. Her 17 double-doubles during her sophomore campaign were the most collected in a single season by a Commodore since 1999-00.
Following the selection of the 2025 USA Women’s AmeriCup Team and a training camp in Colorado Springs, the United States will travel to Santiago, Chile, for the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup, set for June 28-July 6.
The 2025 USA Women’s AmeriCup Team will open Group B with host nation Chile, followed by Colombia, Puerto Rico and Mexico. The full schedule is available here. The winner of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup will earn a berth to the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup, set to be held in Berlin next summer.
Since the event’s inception in 1993, the United States has captured four AmeriCup gold medals, including titles in 2019 and 2021. For more information about the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup, click here.
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