Vandersloot invited to Team USA tryouts

Every time you turn around it seems like Courtney Vandesloot is doing something special … and the mayor hasn’t even given her a key to the city - yet.

After hauling in numberous awards at the NCAA Women’s Final Four she headed to ESPN headquarters for the WNBA Draft - where she wsa picked third by the Chicago Sky.

Sunday it was throwing out the ceremonial first pitch for the Mariners and Tuesday, while she was en route to Detroit to pick up the Nancy Lieberman Award as the nation’s best point guard, USA Basketball announced that the Gonzaga senior and 6-8 Baylor junior Brittney Griner were joining the national team tryouts in Las Vegas next month.

This is the first step in determining the team for the 2012 Olympics in London.

Team USA won gold at the world championships in 2010 and all those players are back, plus all that were cut to get down to 12, so Vandersloot faces long odds, but pretty soon some new blood will have to be considered for international cmpetition.

If you want to be impress with the company Vandersloot is keeping, check the roster below.

USA Basketball National Team - 2011 Las Vegas Training Camp Roster
NAME POS HGT WGT DOB WNBA TEAM SCHOOL  HOMETOWN
Jayne Appel C 6-4 210 05/14/88 San Antonio Silver Stars  Stanford  Pleasant Hill, CA
Seimone Augustus F 6-0 168 04/30/84 Minnesota Lynx Louisiana State Baton Rouge, LA
Sue Bird G 5-9 150 10/16/80 Seattle Storm Connecticut Syosset, NY
Rebekkah Brunson F 6-2 175 12/11/81 Minnesota Lynx Georgetown Oxen Hill, MD
Swin Cash  F 6-1 162 09/22/79 Seattle Storm Connecticut McKeesport, PA
Tamika Catchings F 6-1 167 07/21/79 Indiana Fever Tennessee Duncanville, TX
Tina Charles  C 6-4 198 12/05/88 Connecticut Sun Connecticut Jamaica, NY
Shameka Christon F 6-1 174 02/15/82 Chicago Sky Arkansas Hot Springs, AR
Candice Dupree F 6-2 173 08/16/84 Phoenix Mercury Temple Tampa, FL
Sylvia Fowles C 6-6 200 10/06/85 Chicago Sky Louisiana State Miami, FL
#Brittney Griner C 6-8  10/18/90 n/a Baylor Houston, TX
Lindsey Harding G 5-8 139 06/12/84 Atlanta Dream Duke Houston, TX
Ebony Hoffman F 6-2 215 08/27/82 Los Angeles Sparks  USC  Harbor City, CA
Asjha Jones F 6-3 196 08/01/80 Connecticut Sun Connecticut Piscataway, NJ
Kara Lawson G 5-9 169 02/14/81 Connecticut Sun Tennessee Alexandria, VA
Angel McCoughtry F 6-1 160 09/10/86 Atlanta Dream Louisville Baltimore, MD
Renee Montgomery G 5-7 143 12/02/86 Connecticut Sun Connecticut St. Albans, WV
Maya Moore  F 6-0 170 06/11/89 Minnesota Lynx Connecticut  Lawrenceville, GA
Candace Parker F/C/G 6-4 175 04/19/86 Los Angeles Sparks Tennessee  Naperville, IL
Diana Taurasi G/F 6-0 165 06/11/82 Phoenix Mercury Connecticut   Chino, CA
#Courtney Vandersloot  G 5-8  02/08/89 Chicago Sky Gonzaga Kent, WA
Kia Vaughn  C 6-4 208 01/24/87 New York Liberty  Rutgers  Bronx, NY
Lindsay Whalen  G 5-9 169 05/09/82 Minnesota Lynx Minnesota Hutchinson, MN
Candice Wiggins  G 5-11 156 02/14/87 Minnesota Lynx Stanford San Diego, CA
# Not a member of the 2009-12 USA Basketball Women’s National Team.

Head Coach: Geno Auriemma, University of Connecticut
Court Coach: Doug Bruno, DePaul University
Court Coach: Corey Gaines, Phoenix Mercury
Court Coach: Jennifer Gillom, Los Angeles Sparks
Court Coach: Marynell Meadors, Atlanta Dream