UConn teammates Tina Charles, Tiffany Hayes and Maya Moore were all named to the 12-member U.S. squad which will be competing in the World University Games next month in Belgrade, Serbia.

They were among the original 14 candidates named among the 27 who accepted invitations to try out for the team last month. When Stanford's Jayne Appel underwent knee surgery, she removed her name from contention but Boston College's Carolyn Swords and Amy Jaeschke of Northwestern were added to list of players invited back to training camp.

On Monday, the team was announced. Swords and Jaeschke were cut (which is not all that surprising since they would have made the original list had they impressed the committee that much and they have some tough odds going against a talent pool full of talented post players). Oklahoma's Whitney Hand was the only player originally invited back to make the cut. According to Oklahoma's official website, Hand had a family emergency and left the U.S. Olympic Training Center on Monday to return home.

It was also interesting that four other players (Jeanette Pohlen and Kayla Pedersen of Stanford, Oklahoma's Danielle Robinson and Jacinta Monroe of Florida State) who will play against UConn in the upcoming regular season also made the squad. The other members of the team are Jantel Lavender of Ohio State, Alexis Gray-Lawson of California, Georgia's Ashley Houts, Danielle McCray of Kansas and Xavier's Ta'Shia Phillips. The team will remain in Colorado Springs until Thursday before leaving for Serbia.