Rutgers women\u2019s basketball has accepted an invitation to represent the university and America as a whole at the fourth FISU America Games in Lima, Peru.<\/p>\n
The FISU America Games are a premier multi-sport event for university athletes across the Americas, held in Lima, Peru, from July 218to August 1, 2026. This event gathers student-athletes from over 20 nations across North, Central, and South America to compete in several different types of sports.<\/p>\n
Rutgers women\u2019s basketball players will be among over 300 student-athletes representing the United States across 15 different sports.<\/p>\n
Rutgers women\u2019s basketball head coach Gary Redus believes that this international event means more than just representing the university and the country on the national stage; it means an opportunity for his newly built team to gel on the court during a live game against good international competition before the season starts up in the fall.<\/p>\n
\u201dThis trip is about much more than the games we\u2019ll play in Peru. It\u2019s an opportunity to accelerate our growth as a team heading into the 2026-27 season. We\u2019ll have the chance to compete against quality international competition, build chemistry, and continue establishing our identity and the standard we\u2019ve been working toward so far this summer. Those experiences are invaluable this time of year, and they\u2019ll help prepare us for the upcoming season,\u201d Redus said in a press release on ScarletKnights.com.<\/p>\n
Having experience playing on the same court together could prove useful come the fall, because as of right now, many of the players on the roster don\u2019t have experience playing with one another.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited to represent Rutgers and the United States, but we\u2019re also focused on using every practice, every game and every moment together to become the best team we can be,\u201d Redus said.<\/p>\n
The event will be hosted in Lima\u2019s National Sports Village, the same group of venues that hosted the 2019 Pan American Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rutgers women\u2019s basketball has accepted an invitation to represent the university and America as a whole at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,367145,85],"class_list":["post-773240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-rutgers-womens-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773240","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=773240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}