Head Coach Meg Barber of New York University's 2024 National Champion women's basketball team has been selected as Head Coach of the USA Basketball Women's U17 National Team for the 2024 FIBA U17 Women's World Cup this July in Mexico.

She becomes the second-ever NCAA Division III coach to lead the U17 Women's National Team's bench and the first in the history of NYU or the University Athletic Association (UAA).

Barber's journey will begin with the U17 National Team trials at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO, beginning on May 23 with the 12-member team planned to be announced at the end of the trials.

The team will then reconvene in Colorado Springs in early July before the World Cup takes place from July 13-21 in Irapuato and Leon, Mexico. This will be Barber's second experience with USA Basketball after serving as a member of the coaching staff at the 2024 USA Junior National Team March minicamp in Portland, OR.

Barber (NYU class of 2002) has posted a 119-21 (.850) head coaching record at her alma mater, including a perfect 31-0 mark while winning the national title and a third straight UAA title this past season. The 31-game winning streak is a program record, as is the 2,459 points the Violets scored in 2023-24.

Under Barber's guidance this season, NYU ranked first in NCAA Division III in field goal percentage (49.0), third in three-point percentage (37.1), fourth in scoring margin (+26.1), and sixth in both blocks (6.2) and assists (18.5) per game. She and her assistants were named UAA Coaching Staff of the Year, while Barber was MBWA Division III Coach of the Year and a finalist for WBCA National Coach of the Year. 

Barber's Violets reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament in both 2022 and 2023 and she was the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's National Coach of the Year in 2022.

Following the FIBA U17 World Cup, Barber will continue her travels when she takes NYU women's basketball to Shanghai, China, in August.

For more information on the World Cup and to view the schedule of games, click here.