USA Basketball announced Saturday the women’s 2025 USA 3×3 Nations League Team set to compete at the 2025 FIBA 3×3 Nations League Americas Conference July 21-27 in Punta Arenas, Chile, and University of Tennessee rising senior Zee Spearman is a member of that squad.
The 6-foot-4 forward from Dacula (duh-CUE-luh), Ga., joins four other current NCAA Division I athletes, including Taylor Bigby (TCU), Joyce Edwards (South Carolina), MiLaysia Fulwiley (LSU) and Rachel Ullstrom (Richmond). Serena Sundell, who recently graduated from Kansas State, will round out the roster.
In May, Bigby, Edwards, Fulwiley, Spearman and Ullstrom participated in 2025 USA Basketball 3X Nationals in Mesa, Arizona, with Spearman and Fulwiley winning the women’s tournament with Team Chaos.
Each member of this year’s women’s squad will be donning the red, white and blue for the first time in FIBA 3×3 competition. Edwards, who is coming off a recent gold medal at the 2025 Women’s AmeriCup in Santiago, Chile, also has won gold at the 2024 FIBA U18 Women’s AmeriCup and 2023 FIBA U19 Women’s World Cup. Bigby, Fulwiley, Spearman, Sundell and Ullstrom will make their USA Basketball competitive debuts.
Julia Ford will serve as head coach after participating as a coach at the 2025 USA Basketball 3×3 development camp in Phoenix in April.
The 2025 FIBA 3×3 Nations League Americas Conference will feature six three-game tournaments over seven days. The competition will run in a ‘stops’ format, with multiple stops held over the course of the weeklong event. Teams will accumulate points based on their performance at each stop. Team members can substitute as needed for each day’s four-person entry.
The FIBA 3×3 Nations League will be a qualification route to the FIBA 3×3 U23 World Cup 2025. Conference winners will qualify for the event, set for Sept. 17-21 in Xiong An, China. China’s men and women will receive automatic qualification along with the reigning champions (Germany men and USA women). The rest of the teams will come from the winners of each conference and the next teams in the FIBA 3×3 Nations League 2025 final standings.
The 2025 FIBA 3×3 Nations League will stream live on the official FIBA3x3 YouTube channel.
3×3 is played on a half court with a 10-minute clock and a 12-second shot clock. The first team to 21 points, or the team in the lead at the end of regulation, is the winner.
In 2024-25, Spearman arrived at Tennessee after playing two seasons at the University of Miami. She appeared in all 34 games, starting 23 of them, and helped UT fashion a 24-10 record, advance to the NCAA Sweet 16 and wind up at No. 15 in the AP Top 25 after beginning the year unranked.
Her junior campaign saw her finish as the Lady Vols’ leading rebounder (6.0 rpg.) and third-leading scorer (11.7 ppg.). She also had the team’s highest field goal percentage (51.5) among regulars and finished second in blocked shots (23).
Additionally, Spearman tied for second on the team with 23 double-figure scoring efforts and was fourth with 10 games of 15+ points. She scored a career-high 25 points on 10-of-12 shooting vs. Samford, carding the No. 2 all-time total in a Lady Vol debut.
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