University of Iowa women’s basketball freshman Caitlin Clark and Iowa State freshman Lexi Donarski were selected to participate in the 2021 USA Women’s U19 World Cup Team Trials, the USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team Selection Committee announced Wednesday.

Clark is one of four student-athletes that will represent the Big Ten Conference at the trials on May 14-16 at Metro State University in Denver. Joining her are Purdue’s Madison Layden, Maryland’s Angel Reese, and Rutgers’ Sakima Walker. Twenty-three additional athletes will compete to be a part of the U19 USA team.

The West Des Moines, Iowa, native is the only athlete to return from the 2019 USA U19 team that won gold medals in Japan. She joins Connecticut commit Azzi Fudd, who earned a gold medal as a member of the 2018 USA U17 team, as the only two-time gold medalists. The pair were teammates on the 2017 USA U16 team, earning their first gold medals.

This season with Iowa State, Donarski averaged 13.0 points per game and was ISU’s second-leading scorer. She added 3.3 rebounds and shot 40.5 percent from the field and 41.1 percent from long range. Donarski was named the unanimous Big 12 Freshman of the Year and claimed a league-high five Big 12 Freshman of the Week honors.

Featuring U19 teams from 16 nations, the 2021 FIBA U19 World Cup is scheduled to be held Aug. 7-15 in Debrecen, Hungary. In addition to the USA and host Hungary, teams that will take part in this summer’s U19 World Cup include Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Italy, Japan, Mali, Russia, South Korea and Spain.

FIBA held the draw to determine preliminary round groups for the 2021 FIBA U19 World Cup on April 28, and the USA was drawn into Group A, alongside Australia, Egypt and Italy for the Aug. 7-10 preliminary round. The USA will open play against Italy on Aug. 7, followed by Australia on Aug. 8 and cap preliminary play against Egypt on Aug. 10. Times will be announced by FIBA at a later date.