Following the inaugural 2009-10 USA Basketball Men’s Developmental National Team training camp that began on June 6 and featured 19 of the nation’s top young prep athletes, USA Basketball today announced the 12 players selected to represent the United States at the 2009 FIBA Americas U16 Championship for Men. Included in the selections was DeMatha junior Quinn Cook.

"Right now I'm on cloud nine," Cook said Tuesday after a workout with the team at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. "It's one of my all-time dreams to put on a USA jersey."

The eight-team tournament in 2009 will feature U16 national teams from the FIBA Americas Zone, which includes North, South and Central America and the Caribbean. Preliminary round-robin play will take place June 17-19, with the top two teams from each preliminary group advancing to the June 20 semifinals. The gold and bronze medal games will be contested June 21.

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Seniors Lauren Gray and Ashton Hellmuth and junior Janet Tela were selected to the Virginia Independent School All State first team. Bishop Ireton finished the 2009 season with a record of 19-4, a school record, advancing to the Virginia State Championship Division I Final Four. Gray, Hellmuth and Tela were also All Washington Catholic Athletic Conference (WCAC) First Team selections. Gray was also named the Father Godley Award recipient as Bishop Ireton’s 2008-2009 Female Athlete of the Year and finished the season with 43 goals, 21 assists and 50 draw controls as well as holding the career record for draw controls. She will play collegiate lacrosse at Georgetown University.

Hellmuth finished an impressive career at Ireton with 71 goals in 2009 and 183 career goals which places her first in program history and second all time in total career points with 210. She will play at Lehigh University next year.

Tela led the Cardinal offense with 86 goals, 43 assists for 129 total points, all single season records and is third on the all time scoring list behind Hellmuth and older sister Julianne Tela (2008) with 200 career points but with a 2010 campaign still ahead of her. Tela has committed to play lacrosse at the University of Connecticut.