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Sylvia Fowles selected to US Olympic Team for shot at 4th gold medal

Sylvia Fowles can add four time Olympian to her already impressive resume, if she so desires.

Fowles, who led LSU to Final Fours and is one of just two women’s basketball players to have her jersey retired in the PMAC, was selected to the US Women’s National Team on Monday to participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021 (note: the IOC is still calling it the 2020 Tokyo Olympics).

“It’s still surreal,” Fowles said in a press release. “You never want to get too ahead of yourself and get to comfortable in the position that you’re in.