1997 Tournament of the Americas squads

This article displays the rosters for the participating teams at the 1997 Tournament of the Americas played in Montevideo, Uruguay from August 21 to August 31, 1997.

Group A

Argentina

• 4 Gabriel Fernández
• 5 Héctor Campana
• 6 Luis Villar
• 7 Esteban de la Fuente
• 8 Lucas Victoriano
• 9 Marcelo Milanesio
• 10 Juan Espil
• 11 Diego Osella
• 12 Gabriel Díaz
• 13 Jorge Racca
• 14 Patricio Simoni
• 15 Rubén Wolkowyski

• Head coach: Julio Lamas

Brazil

• 4 Raúl
• 5 Ratto
• 6 Caio
• 7 Olívia
• 8 Josuel
• 9 Demétrius
• 10 Alexei
• 11 Brasília
• 12 Sandro Varejão
• 13 Vanderlei
• 14 Rogério
• 15 Janjão

• Head coach: Hélio Rubens Garcia

Cuba

• 4 Ángel Caballero
• 5 Yudi Abreu
• 6 Rabdel Echevarría
• 7 Ulises Goire
• 8 Héctor Pino
• 9 Roberto Herrera García
• 10 Leonardo Pérez
• 11 Lazaro Borrell
• 12 Leopoldo Vázquez
• 13 Eliécer Rojas
• 14 Ángel Núñez
• 15 Ruperto Herrera García

• Head coach: Miguel Calderón Gómez

Mexico

• 4 Óscar Castellanos
• 5 Antonio Reyes
• 6 Andrés Contreras
• 7 Florentino Chávez
• 8 Enrique González
• 9 Silvestre Barajas
• 10 Alberto Martínez
• 11 Luis López
• 12 Javier Zavala
• 13 Erick Martínez
• 14 Miguel Acuña
• 15 Rodrigo Pérez

• Head coach: Luis Fernando Wong

Uruguay

• 4 Camilo Acosta
• 5 Diego Losada
• 6 Luis Pierri
• 7 Freddy Navarrete
• 8 Nicolás Mazzarino
• 9 Adolfo Medrick
• 10 Marcelo Capalbo
• 11 Óscar Moglia
• 12 Gustavo Szczygielski
• 13 Luis Silveira
• 14 Marcel Bouzout
• 15 Jesus Rostán

• Head coach: Víctor Hugo Berardi

Group B

Canada

• 4 Joey Vickery
• 5 Sherman Hamilton
• 6 Eli Pasquale
• 7 Steve Nash
• 8 William Njoku
• 9 Rowan Barrett
• 10 Peter Van Elswyk
• 11 Rob Wilson
• 12 Martin Keane
• 13 Pascal Fleury
• 14 Michael Meeks
• 15 Wayne Yearwood

• Head coach: / Steve Konchalski

Dominican Republic

• 4 Ricardo Vásquez
• 5 Eladio Almonte
• 6 Soterio Ramírez
• 7 Moisés Michel
• 8 Henry Paulino
• 9 José Mercedes
• 10 José Molina
• 11 Héctor Gil
• 12 Franklin Western
• 13 Ocaris Lenderborg
• 14 Carlos Martínez
• 15 Juan Carlos Eusebio

• Head coach: Miguel Cruzeta

Puerto Rico

• 4 José Ortiz
• 5 Eddie Casiano
• 6 Orlando Santiago
• 7 Erick Rivera
• 8 Jerome Mincy
• 9 James Carter
• 10 Carlos Lanauze
• 11 Ramón Rivas
• 12 Rolando Hourruitiner
• 13 Édgar de León
• 14 Luis Allende
• 15 Daniel Santiago

• Head coach: Carlos Morales

United States

• 4 Rusty LaRue
• 5 Corey Beck
• 6 Jim Farmer
• 7 Jason Sasser
• 8 Erik Martin
• 9 Adrian Griffin
• 10 Reggie Jordan
• 11 Kermit Holmes
• 12 Evers Burns
• 13 Russ Millard
• 14 Travis Williams
• 15 Michael McDonald

• Head coach: Morris McHone

Venezuela

• 4 Víctor David Díaz
• 5 José Hernández
• 6 Ernesto Mijares
• 7 Richard Lugo
• 8 Alex Quiroz
• 9 Víctor González
• 10 Armando Becker
• 11 Omar Walcott
• 12 Richard Medina
• 13 Gabriel Estaba
• 14 Iván Olivares
• 15 Ludwing Irazábal

• Head coach: Julio Toro

Bibliography

• Mexico 2015 FIBA Americas Championship Guía Histórica 1980–2015 (in Spanish). FIBA. 2015. p. 71–78.

External links

• 1997 Championship of the Americas for Men at fiba.basketball