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2024 USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team Coaching Staffs Announced

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (Feb. 29, 2024) – USA Basketball announced today the 2024 USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team coaching staffs. Leading the 2024 USA Women's U18 National Team is Teri Moren (Indiana University) who will be assisted by Niele Ivey (University of Notre Dame) and Jose Fernandez (University of South Florida). The head coach of the 2024 USA Women's U17 National Team is Dan Rolfes (Incarnate Word Academy) and supporting him are assistants Bobbi Morgan (Ursinus College) and Trenia Tillis-Hoard (Tyler Junior College).  

Coaching selections for the U18 national team were made by the USA Basketball Women's Junior National Team Committee, while the USA Basketball Women's Developmental National Team Committee selected the U17 coaching staff. All selections were approved by the USA Basketball Board of Directors.  

Moren, Ivey and Fernandez will lead the USA at the 2024 FIBA U18 Women's AmeriCup June 17-23 (location TBA by FIBA Americas at a later date). The USA will look to capture its 11^th-straight gold medal and 12^th overall since the tournament's inception in 1988.

"I am grateful to be chosen as the head coach of the 2024 U18 National Team," Moren said. "It is an honor and humbling experience anytime you are asked to be a part of USA Basketball and represent your country. I look forward to leading some of the very best young players in the country and work alongside some excellent colleagues in pursuit of a gold medal this summer."

Moren will make her head coaching debut with USA Basketball after capturing gold as an assistant coach at the 2023 FIBA U19 Women's World Cup and 2022 FIBA U18 Women's Americas Championship. She is in her 10^th season as the head coach of the Hoosiers. The Indiana native is the program's all-time winningest coach while leading them to five NCAA Tournament appearances, two Sweet 16's and an Elite Eight appearance along with eight consecutive 20-win seasons. In 2023, she guided the program to its first regular season Big Ten championship in 40 years and took Big Ten Coach of the Year honors for the second time in her career.

Ivey is in her fourth season at the helm for the Fighting Irish. She has accumulated a 61-25 record and led the team to back-to-back Sweet 16 appearances in 2022 and 2023. She was named 2023 ACC Coach of the Year after steering Notre Dame to its first ACC regular season championship since 2019. Prior, she served as an assistant coach with the Memphis Grizzlies for the 2019-20 season and Notre Dame from 2007 to 2019. She is set to make her USA Basketball assistant coaching debut after serving as a court coach at the 2023 USA Women's U19 National Team trials.

Fernandez has carved out a 24-year head coaching career at South Florida with multiple accolades. He is the program's all-time winningest coach, has claimed American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors twice in 2018 and 2021, and has led the Bulls to nine NCAA Tournament appearances, eight of which have come over the past 11 seasons. He returns to USA Basketball to make his assistant coaching debut after serving as a court coach for the 2018 USA Women's U18 National Team trials.

Rolfes, Morgan and Tillis-Hoard will lead the U.S. at the 2024 FIBA U17 Women's World Cup from July 13-21 in Mexico. The trio coached the 2023 USA Women's U16 National Team to a gold medal at the 2023 FIBA U16 Women's Americas Championship in Merida, Mexico. 

The FIBA U17 Women's World Cup has been held biennially since 2010 with the U.S. winning gold in five of the six editions of the competition.

Rolfes will assume his second head coaching position with USA Basketball. He was also a court coach for the 2017 USA Women's U16 National Team. A 2018 Missouri Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Rolfes has led Incarnate Word to 12 state championships, including six consecutive titles from 2017-2023. In 2024, Rolfes's program was able to capture its 124^th consecutive win, marking the most successive wins in Missouri girls high school basketball history.

"I am grateful to have the opportunity, along with Coach Morgan and Coach Tillis-Hoard, to represent our country and lead another group of outstanding athletes at the FIBA U17 Women's World Cup," Rolfes said. "Representing USA Basketball is a tremendous opportunity, and we are looking forward to the challenge of competing on the world stage for the gold medal."

 Morgan, who also served as a court coach at the 2022 USA Women's U17 National Team trials, is in her third season as the assistant athletic director and head women's basketball coach at Ursinus College. Previously, she was at Haverford College for 13 seasons, where she became the program's winningest coach, captured three Centennial Coach of the Year awards (2012, 2014, 2020), won three Centennial Conference titles and made four NCAA Division III tournament appearances.

 Tillis-Hoard, who began her USA Basketball career as a court coach prior to the 2001 World University Games, is a 2023 inductee of the Texas High School Basketball Hall of Fame. Tillis-Hoard has been with Tyler Junior College since 2000 and was named the 2022 Junior College Women's Coach of the Year after capturing the NJCAA Division I Women's National Basketball Championship.