COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Oregon guard Katie Fiso has been selected to the 2026 USA 3×3 Women’s U23 National Team that will compete at the 2026 FIBA 3×3 U23 World Cup from Sept. 15-19 in Wuhan, China.
Fiso will join three other Division I athletes in McKinna Brackens from Arizona State, Dani Carnegie from Georgia and Tori McKinney from Minnesota. The quartet won the 2026 FIBA 3×3 Nations League Americas North Conference in Ñuñoa, Chile in July and will reunite under head coach Todd Monsey.
In May, Fiso participated in USA Basketball’s 3×3 Developmental camp in Phoenix and the subsequent USA Basketball 3X Showcase in Mesa, Arizona. Fiso and teammates Carnegie and McKinney took home the 3X Showcase title. Fiso was also part of USA’s gold-medal winning team at the 2022 FIBA 3×3 U18 Women’s World Cup.
Fiso is coming off a breakout sophomore campaign in which she led the Ducks with 15.5 points and 6.2 assists per game, earning her second-team all-Big Ten honors. The Seattle product handed out 222 assists last season, the fourth-highest total in a single season in UO history. She produced a Big Ten-best seven points-assists double-doubles.
The USA women will begin play in Pool D on Sept. 16 against Japan at 12:50 a.m. PT, followed by a matchup with Kenya at 5:50 a.m. PT. Pool play will continue Sept. 18 against Slovenia at 2:30 a.m. PT and Australia at 5:25 a.m. PT.
The top two teams from each of the four five-team pools will move on to the quarterfinals on Sept. 19.
Brett Taylor joined the KEZI 9 News team as a sports anchor and reporter in June of 2023. If you have a story idea, you can email Brett at btaylor@kezi.com.
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