STANFORD, Calif. – Brittany McPhee has accepted an invitation to attend the 2017 USA Basketball Women's U23 National Team Training Camp from July 31 to Aug. 4 at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.
McPhee is one of 48 collegians vying for a roster spot on the 12-member team that will represent the USA in an inaugural U23 Four Nations Tournament for college-aged women this summer in Tokyo. Players selected will continue training at the USOTC through Aug. 7 before departing for Japan. Eligible athletes must be U.S. citizens who are 23 years old or younger and currently are freshmen, sophomores or juniors in college.
The 2017 U23 Four Nations Tournament, which will include the USA, Australia, Canada and Japan, will be a round-robin tournament played Aug. 12-15 in Tokyo.
McPhee had a breakout junior year for the Cardinal in 2016-17 and was named All-Pac-12 following a season in which she started 37 games and averaged 13.3 points and 4.9 rebounds. The versatile guard led Stanford in scoring in the NCAA Tournament at 16.8 points per game and made 44.4 percent of her 3-pointers in the Cardinal's Final Four run.
The Pac-12's second-most improved scorer year-over-year, McPhee upped her scoring over her sophomore season by 6.8 points per game. Twenty-five of her 35 career games scoring in double figures came this past season as did seven of her nine career 20-point efforts.
McPhee was named to the Lexington Region All-Tournament team after some superb postseason performances. She scored 16 of her game-high 21 in the first half of a second-round win over Kansas State and also had seven rebounds, five assists and a career-high five made 3-pointers. In Stanford's massive comeback against Notre Dame in the Elite Eight, McPhee scored 19 of her game-high 27 in the second half to go along with five rebounds, four assists, two blocks and another five made 3-pointers.
A human biology major with a 3.73 GPA, McPhee was honored by the NCAA as this year's women's basketball Elite 90 award winner, given to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade-point average participating at the finals site for each of the NCAA's 90 championships.