The following is a press release from Iowa State Athletics Communications:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – Iowa State women’s basketball’s Addy Brown and Audi Crooks were two of 21 collegiate women’s basketball student-athletes invited to the 2025 USA Women’s AmeriCup Team Training Camp.
Training camp will take place from June 16-24 and will be held at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center (OPTC) in Colorado Springs. The beginning of training camp will include a Trials for the final team selection.
The Junior National Team Committee is responsible for Trials and team selection. Ten nations from North, South and Central America and the Caribbean will take part in the 2025 AmeriCup, held June 28-July 6 at Santiago, Chile.
The 2025 USA Women’s AmeriCup Team will open Group B with host nation Chile, followed by Colombia, Puerto Rico and Mexico. The winner of the 2025 FIBA Women’s AmeriCup will earn a berth to the 2026 FIBA Women’s World Cup, set to be held in Berlin next summer.
Kara Lawson (Duke University) will serve as head coach with assistant coaches DeLisha Milton-Jones (Old Dominion University) and Jennie Baranczyk (University of Oklahoma). They will be assisted by court coaches Jim Flanery (Creighton University) and Robyn Fralick (Michigan State University) at trials.
Crooks is fresh off one of the most productive sophomore campaigns in the nation, averaging a Big 12-best 23.4 points per game while shooting 60.5 percent from the floor. She became the fastest Cyclone and third-fastest Big 12 women’s basketball player to score 1,000 career points, reaching the milestone in just 49 games (vs. Utah, Jan. 5, 2025).
The Algona, Iowa native is a two-time unanimous All-Big 12 selection and was named Third Team All-America by both the Associated Press and the US Basketball Writers Association in 2025. During the 2024-25 season, she was named a Lisa Leslie Center of the Year Top 5 Finalist, as well as appearing on the Wooden Award and Naismith Trophy watch lists.
Brown is widely regarded as one of the most well-rounded players in the country, averaging 15.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game. She is the only Cyclone to finish a season with at least 400 points, 250 rebounds and 150 assists, completing the feat in both 2023-24 and 2024-25.
The 6-2 forward earned Second Team All-Big 12 honors and was voted a Third Team College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-American. In the Big 12 Championship second round, she turned in a career-high 41 points, just one off the school record, to help Iowa State to a 96-88 win.
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