{"id":762312,"date":"2026-06-16T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/762312\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:42:20","slug":"niele-ivey-coaches-usa-basketball-to-2026-fiba-u18-americup-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/762312\/","title":{"rendered":"Niele Ivey coaches USA Basketball to 2026 FIBA U18 AmeriCup Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">IRAPUATO, Mexico \u2014 For the first time as a USA Basketball head coach, Karen and Kevin Keyes Family Head Women\u2019s Basketball Coach Niele Ivey is a gold medalist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">On Monday, Ivey led the United States to a 90-72 victory over Canada to win the 2026 FIBA U18 Women\u2019s AmeriCup. It is the 12th-consecutive tournament win for the United States and the 13th overall. The U.S. dominated throughout the duration of the AmeriCup, finishing 5-0 with an average margin of victory of 68.3 points over the first four games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">While this was Ivey\u2019s first time serving as a head coach for USA Basketball, she was an assistant coach for gold medal-winning clubs in the 2024 U18 AmeriCup and 2025 U19 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Ivey joins Carol Owens, current associate head coach, as the two Irish coaches to win a gold medal as a USA Basketball head coach. Owens won gold at the 2008 Americas and 2009 World Cup with the U18 and U19 teams, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">Monday\u2019s contest also featured Irish signee Isabella Sangha, who competed for Canada and earned a silver medal. Sangha moved to South Florida for high school, but the 6-3 forward is originally from Toronto. Over four games played in Irapuato, Sangha averaged 3.8 points and 3.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IRAPUATO, Mexico \u2014 For the first time as a USA Basketball head coach, Karen and Kevin Keyes Family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,6112],"class_list":["post-762312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-womens-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116758665217058011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}