BOCA RATON, Fla. – Five members of the Florida Atlantic University women’s basketball team have been invited to play with their respective national teams this summer.
Nikola Ozola will play in the U-19 World Cup with the Latvian team and then team up with the U-20 team for the European Championship.
Janeta Rozentale and Sofia Galeron will also play in the U-20 European Championship with their national teams. Galeron will play with Spain and Rozentale will join Ozola on the Latvian team. Lotta Vehka-Aho will play for Finland in the European Championship Division B.
Astou Gaye has been invited to compete with France in the U-23 3×3 World Championships, but will decline the offer due to an injury.
The U-20 European Championship Division A and B will be played Aug. 3-11. The Division A tournament will be played in Klatovy, Czech Republic and B will take place in Prishtina, Kosovo. Spain and Latvia are both in Group A for the group phase of the Division A Championship along with Serbia and Portugal. Finland is in Group D of the Division B side along with Greece and Bulgaria.
The U-19 World Cup will be played July 20-28 in Thailand. Ozola and Latvia are in Group A with Mozambique, Canada and Thailand. The Latvian team will play Canada first on July 20.
All five players will join the Owls for the upcoming season as newcomers. Ozola and Vehka-Aho will be true freshmen and Gaye is a junior college transfer. Rozentale and Galeron are transfers who will sit out the 2019-20 season.
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FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 CheriBundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
