STANFORD, Calif. – Junior forward Alyssa Jerome has been named to Canada's roster for the 2019 Pan American Games from Aug. 6-10 in Lima, Peru.
Currently ranked a fifth in the FIBA World Rankings, Canada travels to Lima looking to defend its gold medal from the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. Canada is one of only three countries (along with Brazil and the United States) to have participated in every Pan Am Games since 1955, earning one gold, one silver and three bronze medals in 15 appearances.
Canada is in Group A for this year's event and will face Brazil (August 6), Paraguay (August 7) and Puerto Rico (August 8) in the preliminary round.
Canada qualified by winning a gold medal at the FIBA Women's AmeriCup 2017. The field for the 2019 Pan American Games includes the top six teams from the FIBA Women's AmeriCup 2017 (Canada, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Brazil, U.S. Virgin Islands, Paraguay and Colombia), along with the United States (Olympic champion) and Peru (host country).
Jerome played in all 35 games as a sophomore and made 11 starts, averaging 3.0 points and 2.8 rebounds in 13.1 minutes.
Jerome has been among the youngest players at a pair of Senior Women's National Team camps over the past two years and has great success for Canada at a number of other FIBA age-level tournaments, captaining Canada to bronze at the U19 World Cup in Italy in the summer of 2017, averaging 7.6 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists.
In 2016, she played in both the FIBA U17 World Championships in Spain and the FIBA Americas U18 Championships in Chile. Jerome captained Canada to seventh at the U17 World Championships, which ran from late June to early July, and averaged 10.3 points and 4.5 rebounds in six games. Less than two weeks later she was in Chile at U18 FIBA Americas and helped Canada win silver, averaging 15.8 points on 48.5 percent shooting, 9.4 rebounds and 2.2 assists per game. She finished third in that tournament in points, seventh in field goal percentage, third in rebounds and second in double-doubles (3).
Jerome was team captain and tournament MVP of the FIBA Americas U16 Championships in Mexico in 2015 and averaged a near tournament double-double of 13.2 points and 9.2 rebounds per game.
Jerome will join fellow Stanford teammate Kiana Williams in Lima. Williams made her first USA Basketball roster for these Pan Am Games in late May and will head to Colorado Springs, Colo. for training camp July 23-Aug. 4 before continuing on to Peru for the tournament.
