Ohio State Basketball Players Caity Matter and Kim Wilburn Invited to USA Basketball Women’s National Team Trials – Ohio State Buckeyes
5/6/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
May 6, 2003
Ohio State basketball players Caity Matter (So./Bluffton, Ohio) and Kim Wilburn (Fr./ Southfield, Mich.) are among sixty of the nation’s top athletes that have accepted invitations to the USA Basketball Women’s National Team Trials May 22-25 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., USA Basketball announced today. Both the USA World Championship for Young Women and the USA Pan American teams are 12-member squads that will be chosen from the field of 60 invitees. Ohio State head coach Jim Foster is the head coach of the World Championship for Young Women Team and University of Virginia head coach Debbie Ryan will lead the Pan American Team.
Matter shot 45 percent (106-235) from behind the arc, averaged 3.3 treys made per game, which ranked second in the nation, and led the Buckeyes with 15.4 points per game. She was named the 2003 Edward S. Steitz Award recipient, which is awarded to the nation’s best 3-point shooter, and crushed the single-season record for 3-pointers made by an Ohio State player with 106. Matter tied the single-game record of seven treys made in a single game at Wisconsin Jan. 16. Currently the top 3-point shooter in Ohio State history with a .437 (124-284) stroke, she was a second-team All-Big Ten selection by the media, a third-team all-conference pick by the coaches and a member of the 2003 Big Ten All-Tournament team. Matter, who missed a stretch of 16 games her freshman season and redshirted last year, found her way into the Top 5 for career 3-pointers made in just 45 games and ranks sixth with 284 shots drained from beyond the arc.
Wilburn played a pivotal role as a newcomer this season running the offense for Ohio State. She broke both the assists (168) and steals (92) records for a Buckeye freshman and set a Value City Arena Record with seven steals vs. Iowa this season. Wilburn was selected to the 2003 Big Ten Coaches’ All-Freshman Team, earned honorable mention all-conference accolades from the media and was selected to the 2003 Big Ten All-Tournament Team.
The 2003 FIBA World Championships for Young Women will take place July 25-Aug. 5 in Sibenik, Croatia. The Pan American Games are held every four years in the year prior to the Olympics and bring together competitors from the Caribbean and North, South and Central America. This year, the women’s basketball portion of the Pan American Games are scheduled to take place Aug. 2-9, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
