by By Jeri Thorpe, Arkansas Razorbacks
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – University of Arkansas rising junior Chelsea Dungee (Cherokee Nation) was selected by USA Basketball and the Junior National Team Committee to participate in the 2019 Pan American Game Team Trials the organizations announced this week.
Dungee will attend the trials May 16-20 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Participants will be trimmed to a 12- player team that will take part in training camp July 23-Aug. 5 before traveling to Lima, Peru, for the Pan American Games Aug. 6-10.
Dungee’s first season with the Razorbacks was nothing short of spectacular. The Second-Team All-Southeastern Conference selection helped Arkansas to a 22-win season, the program’s first appearance in the SEC Championship game and to round three of the WNIT this year.
The Sapulpa, Oklahoma, native set single-season program records for scoring 759 points, made free throws with 229 and for free throw attempts with 275. She scored in double figures in 34-of-37 games including five games with 30+ points and one game with 41 points in her first year as a Razorback.
