{"id":284914,"date":"2026-05-08T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284914\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:57:16","slug":"irving-invited-to-usa-basketball-u18-training-camp-texas-am-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/284914\/","title":{"rendered":"Irving Invited to USA Basketball U18 Training Camp &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLORADO SPRINGS \u2013\u00a0Texas A&amp;M incoming freshman Josh Irving was invited to participate in the 2026 USA Basketball Men&#8217;s U18 National Team training camp\u00a0at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTraining camp begins May 21 as 35 athletes will be competing for 12 spots on the team that will compete at the 2026 FIBA U18 Men&#8217;s AmeriCup June 1-7 in Leon, Mexico.\u00a0Training camp participants will represent the graduating classes of 2026, 2027 and 2028. Athletes attending camp were selected by the USA Basketball Men&#8217;s Junior National Team Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Irving signed with the Aggies in the fall as a consensus 4-star recruit of out of Pasadena, California, ranking among the top-40 players in the nation. He averaged 8.3 points, 7.9 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game last season in AAU play. Extending his game outside the paint, Irving also shot 5-of-13 from beyond the arc over the summer. The 6-11, 200-pound forward boasts great athleticism while showing consistent improvement on both ends of the floor.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nFollow the Aggies<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nVisit 12thMan.com for more information on Texas A&amp;M men&#8217;s basketball. Fans can keep up with Aggie men&#8217;s basketball team on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aggiembk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aggiembk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and X by following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aggiembk\" rel=\"nofollow\">@AggieMBK<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLORADO SPRINGS \u2013\u00a0Texas A&amp;M incoming freshman Josh Irving was invited to participate in the 2026 USA Basketball Men&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-284914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}