Lynx stars Seimone Augustus, Sylvia Fowles, Maya Moore and Lindsay Whalen will be named to Team USA for the Summer Olympics, a women's basketball website reported Tuesday.
The four players, the core of the Lynx team that won the franchise's third WNBA championship in October, will make up a third of the U.S. roster for the Rio Olympics when it is announced Wednesday, according to womensbasketball247.com.
In addition, Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve will be one of three assistants to head coach Geno Auriemma, the University of Connecticut women's basketball coach whose team recently won its fourth NCAA title.
Fowles, Moore and Whalen have been practicing with the Lynx; Augustus still is playing with Dynamo Kursk in Russia.
The website, run by Phoenix forward Monique Currie, cites unidentified sources and reported that the other eight players — from a pool of 25 — will be: Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner (Phoenix); Sue Bird, Breanna Stewart (Seattle); Tamika Catchings (Indiana); Tina Charles (New York); Angel McCoughtry (Atlanta), and Elena Delle Donne (Chicago).
All but Griner, Stewart and Delle Donne were on the 2012 Olympic team that won gold in London. Augustus and Fowles were also on the 2008 gold medal winners in Beijing.
Two-time Olympian Candace Parker of Los Angeles confirmed via Twitter on Tuesday that she will not on the Olympic team.
The Lynx open their preseason schedule May 5 in New York. The WNBA will take a month off in late July so players can play in Rio.
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