Hidalgo named to 2025 USA Women's Basketball AmeriCup team
ABC 57 SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- After an intense three-day tryout, Notre Dame Women's Basketball's Hannah Hidalgo has been selected as a member of the USA Women's Basketball team that will be competing in the 2025 FIBA Women's AmeriCup later this month.
In total, 12 of the 21 players who tried out for the team made the final cut and will travel to Santiago, Chile from June 28-July 6 for the tournament.
The United States will open play in Group B with host nation Chile before facing Colombia, Puerto Rico and Mexico.
The winner of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup will earn a spot in the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup in Berlin next summer.
A Notre Dame Athletic Department spokesperson says Hidalgo will be chasing her third gold medal as a part of Team USA, after the rising junior won gold medals as part of the U17 and U19 Women's World Cup teams in 2022 and 2023.
She was also named the 2023 USA Basketball Female Athlete of the Year.
Last season, Hidalgo was one of the NCAA's top guards, earning a spot on the AP All-America First Team for the second-straight season, becoming just the fourth player in history to make the First Team in each of their first two years of collegiate basketball.
The school says that, as a sophomore, Hidalgo set the Notre Dame single-season scoring record with 23.8 points per game, topping the mark she set as a freshman (22.6).
All in all, Hidalgo currently holds 23 Irish records, including single-season steals (160) and steals per game (4.6). She ranks 18th in program history with 1551 career points and reached the 1000-point mark in a program-record 44 games.
