Carleton Named to Canada's U19 Women's National Team

TORONTO – Incoming Iowa State women's basketball freshman Bridget Carleton was named to Canada's 12-member U19 Women's National team. Carleton is Iowa State's first signee from Canada and will compete for the Cyclones beginning in the 2015-16 season.

“Bridget playing at the U19 world championships is a great opportunity for her,” head coach Bill Fennelly said. “She will playing against some of the best young players in the world and that experience will really help her as a college player.”

Carleton, a native of Chatham, Ontario, Canada, will compete in the FIBA U19 World Championships from July 12-26 after completing training camp from July 2-10.

Carleton has also been a member of Canada's U16, U17 and U18 teams and was a starter on the U18 Junior National Team. Through 20 international games, she has averaged 11.7 points for Canada. Carleton was the No. 1 recruit in Canada's 2015 class.

Canada's full schedule of games is below for the U19 World Championships.

DATE       OPPONENT       TIME
7/12       Spain (exh.)       1:00 p.m. CT
7/13       USA (exh.)           11:00 a.m. CT
7/14       Australia (exh.)   11:00 a.m. CT
7/18       Mali                      7:15 a.m. CT
7/19       France                 7:45 a.m. CT
7/21        Belgium              5:30 a.m. CT

All FIBA games will be streamed live on www.youtube.com/FIBA if you wish to follow Carleton and Canada. Bracket play will begin following the July 21st game. Check @CycloneWBB for updates and additions to this schedule.

Carleton will also blog for Cyclones.com while competing at the World Championships so stay tuned for her first post, which will be published next week.