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July 9, 2007
CHARLOTTESVILLE – Virginia senior guard Sean Singletary (Philadelphia, Pa.) was added to the roster for the USA Basketball Pan American Games Team Trials to be held July 12-14 at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Singletary is among 32 collegiate players selected to participate in the trials, which will be used to select the team to represent the United States at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 25-29.
Singletary, who withdrew his name from the NBA Draft last month to return to Virginia for his senior season, earned numerous All-America honors after the 2006-07 season and was a first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection for the second consecutive year in 2007. He finished the 2006-07 season with averages of 19.0 points, 4.7 assists and 4.6 rebounds a game. Singletary led the Cavaliers in points (609, 19.0 ppg.), assists (151, 4.7 apg.), three-point field goals made (79, 2.47 a game), free throw percentage (.872, 190-218), steals (38, 1.2 spg.) and minutes played (1,064, 33.2 mpg.).
Following the trials, the 12-player roster for the games will be announced. The team will train at Haverford and the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. for a week before departing for Brazil. The USA Pan American Games team is led by Villanova head coach Jay Wright, with Alabama head coach Mark Gottfried and Yale head coach James Jones serving as assistants.