Recent UConn Basketball Transfer Back On The National Stage

STORRS, CT — University of Connecticut women’s basketball sophomore Kayleigh Heckel, who recently transferred to the Huskies from Southern California, will participate in the 2025 USA Basketball Women’s U19 National Team trials at the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.

Trials begin June 18 with the final 12-member roster expected to be announced following trials. The team will travel to Brno, Czechia, for the 2025 FIBA U19 Women’s World Cup from July 12 through 20.

Heckel represented Team USA at the 2024 FIBA U18 AmeriCup. She won gold and was named to the All-Tournament Second Team.

Heckel, of Port Chester, NY, signed with UConn last month after playing her freshman season at USC. She averaged 6.1 points and 1.9 assists per game and was third on the team with 45 steals.

The FIBA U19 Women’s World Cup, which was launched in 1985, features the world's top 16 U19 national teams who qualify based on their finishes the previous year at the biennial U18 zone championships (USA won gold at the 2024 FIBA U18 Women’s World Cup). The USA has won the gold medal in nine of the last 10 competitions, including the last three.