COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. - Ursinus College Women's Basketball head coach Bobbi Morgan helped lead the USA Basketball U17 National team to a FIBA World Cup Championship this summer.  Morgan served as an assistant coach for the team, which went unbeaten en route to the capturing the Gold Medal at the FIBA games in Leon, Mexico.

 
USA Basketball is the governing body for the sport in the United States and selects junior national teams as well as top Senior National teams for men and women which both won gold at the Paris Olympics.  USA Basketball teams compete at the highest level in the world.

 
Morgan joined New York University head coach Meg Barber and Tyler College Coach Trenia Tills Hoard on the staff, which guided the top-12 U17 players in the country to the Gold.  The team knocked off Australia, Puerto Rico, Egypt, and Croatia in pool play before defeating Japan in the quarterfinals, France in the semi-finals and Canada, 84-64, in the Gold Medal Game.

 
It was the third straight title for the USA U17 Team and sixth in the tournament's previous seven editions. The team is selected by the U17 National Committee at the USA Trials in May at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

 
This was Morgans third year serving on the staff with USA Basketball. In 2022, Morgan was a court Coach at the U17 Trials in Colorado Springs. That team went on to win a FIBA gold medal in Spain. Last summer, Morgan served as an assistant coach for the U16 USA Basketball National Team which won a gold medal at the FIBA America Championships in Merida, Mexico. By virtue of that win, the US team automatically qualified for this year's world championships.
 

Morgan enters her fourth season with the Bears. Last season, led by first team Centennial Conference pick Chinwe Irondi, Ursinus went 15-12 and advanced to the conference semi-finals.
 

No stranger to success in the conference, Morgan is a three- time Centennial Conference Coach of the Year and led Haverford to three Conference Championships, four conference finals, nine straight playoff appearances as well as four NCAA tournament berths before arriving in Collegeville in September of 2021.