{"id":532013,"date":"2026-03-10T23:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532013\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:09:08","slug":"former-roadrunner-to-represent-puerto-rico-at-fiba-womens-basketball-world-cup-qualifiers-utsa-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/532013\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Roadrunner to represent Puerto Rico at FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup Qualifiers &#8211; UTSA Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico \u2013 Former UTSA women\u2019s basketball player <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\/roster\/player\/nina-de-leon-negron\" title=\"Nina De Leon Negron\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nina De Leon Negron<\/a> is set to represent her native Puerto Rico at the upcoming FIBA Women\u2019s Basketball World Cup Qualifier tournament in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n<p>De Leon Negron starred for UTSA in the 2025-26 season, earning American Conference Newcomer of the Year and Second-Team All-Conference honors, while leading the squad to a regular season championship. She appeared in 30 games with 29 starts, averaging 9.0 points and 5.1 rebounds with 149 assists and 46 steals.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, she represented Puerto Rico at the Centrobasket U17 Women&#8217;s Championship, where she posted 15.0 points per game, 4.0 rebounds per game, and 5.0 APG.<\/p>\n<p>De Leon Negron is set to make her senior team debut on Wednesday, when Puerto Rico takes on Italy, ahead of a matchup with the United States on Thursday, Spain on Saturday, Senegal on Sunday and New Zealand on Monday. All games will stream live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtside1891.basketball\/?utm_source=fibaweb&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=wwcqt2026&amp;utm_content=popup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Courtside 1891 via HBO Max.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In total, there are four tournaments of six teams, with 16 teams qualifying for the FIBA Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup 2026. The host (Germany) and the winners of each Women\u2019s Continental Cup 2025 (Australia, Belgium, Nigeria, and USA) will participate in these Qualifying Tournaments; however, they receive automatic qualification for the FIBA Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The top three teams from each Qualifying Tournament will qualify for the FIBA Women&#8217;s Basketball World Cup, along with a Continental Cup winner.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up with UTSA Women\u2019s Basketball all season long on <a href=\"https:\/\/goutsa.com\/sports\/womens-basketball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">goutsa.com<\/a>\u00a0and by following the program on Facebook at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTSAWBB\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/UTSAWBB<\/a>, X (Twitter)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTSAWBB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTSAWBB<\/a>, and on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utsa_wbb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTSA_WBB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-UTSA-<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico \u2013 Former UTSA women\u2019s basketball player Nina De Leon Negron is set to represent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-532013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}