UCLA ladies’s basketball participant Gabriela Jacquez was chosen to signify the Mexican nationwide group on the 2024 FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup 2026 Pre-Qualifying Event. The information was introduced on the UCLA Athletics web site on Friday.
The FIBA Pre-Qualifying Event is a seven-day match that can decide the 16 qualifying groups for the FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup 2026 in Berlin, Germany. The match can be performed from Aug. 19-25 in Mexico Metropolis, Mexico on the Gimnasio Olímpico Juan de la Barrera. The gymnasium as soon as hosted the 1968 Summer season Olympic volleyball competitions.
Final season, the rising junior ahead averaged 10 factors, 5.6 rebounds, and 1.6 assists per recreation. She made appearances in 34 video games, recording six begins and averaging 25.2 minutes per recreation. The Camarillo, California native earned the primary 30-point recreation in her profession on Nov. 12 within the Bruins’ 113-64 victory over Bellarmine. This could mark the primary of three double-doubles she would report this season.
She improved in all features of the sport in her sophomore season as she logged new single-game career-highs in factors, rebounds, assists, 3-pointers, and free throws made.
As a freshman, she appeared in all 37 of the Bruins’ video games and made two begins. She led the group in scoring towards Washington State and Oregon State. Jacquez additionally completed the season main the group with a forty five.5 discipline aim share.
The Bruins’ basketball group consists of a number of gamers who’ve been chosen for the respect to signify their nationwide group. In February, two Bruins have been additionally chosen to signify a competing nationwide group within the FIBA Girls’s Olympic Qualifying Event in Brazil. Then-senior Angela Dugalic, a Eurobasket gold medalist, was chosen to signify the Serbian nationwide group. Then-sophomore Lina Sontang competed for the German nationwide group. Each groups certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Moreover, UCLA alum Emily Bessoir represented the German nationwide group alongside Sontang at this 12 months’s Olympics. Bessoir was a small ahead for the Bruins and was named to the Pac-12 All-Event Workforce.
Jacquez can also be the youthful sister of the Miami Warmth’s first spherical draft choose Jaime Jacquez Jr. The brother-sister duo are the descendants of two former collegiate basketball gamers for Concordia College in Irvine, California. Though Jacquez Jr., a former Bruin, has additionally made appearances as a member of the Mexican nationwide group, he opted out of representing the group within the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Event in July.
