Candice Wiggins USA Womens Female Player Of The Year

Candice Wiggins is now eligible to play for the USA Women's Basketball Team. After leading her USA selection team to three gold medals during the summer 2007 and a team to a 23-0 record. The USA basketball committee announced her as the USA Basketball Female Athlete Of The Year for 2007.

The 5’11” Wiggins was selected for four USA Basketball teams in 2007. On Sept. 7, 2007, she became one of just four current collegians named to the elite 2007-08 USA Basketball Women’s Senior National Team. She was also selected as the lone alternate for the 2007 USA FIBA Americas Championship Team and traveled and trained with the team that finished 5-0 to win gold and qualify the U.S. for the 2008 Olympics in Chile, and participated in the USA Senior National Team’s two exhibition games versus Australia in early September 2007. She started her rewarding summer as a member of the 2007 USA Women’s U21World Championship Team that finished 8-0 and earned the gold medal in Moscow, Russia, and she was also a member of the 2007 USA Pan American Games Team that finished 5-0 and won the gold medal in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.