Texas Tech Lady Raider basketball player Brittany Brewer and Team USA women’s basketball team lost 79-73 to Brazil on Saturday to take the silver medal at the 2019 Pan American Games.

Brewer and the squad went 4-1 on the week to earn the U.S. women’s basketball team’s 15th overall medal and sixth silver medal at the Pan Am Games since its first appearance in 1955. Brewer also became the first Lady Raider to win a medal at the games.

 

Brewer’s best game was a 10-point, five-rebound game to help lead the United states in its blowout win over the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Brewer returns for one more year as a Lady Raider as Coach Stallings goes into year to of the rebuild at Texas Tech.

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