Kara Lawson also served as the athlete representative on the 2017-2020 USA Basketball Women’s Junior National Team Committee, which selected USA Basketball women’s teams for events such as the FIBA Americas U18 Championship, FIBA U19 World Cup and Pan American Games.

Serving as a USA 3x3 team advisor, Kara Lawson has helped lead USA 3x3 teams to six gold medals since 2017. Pictured here during a 2017 training camp, Lawson has helped the USA men and women win gold at the 2019 Pan American Games and the 2019 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup and the USA women win gold at the 2017 FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup and the 2018 Youth Olympic Games.

USA Basketball 3x3 teams combined for an outstanding year in 2019, compiling an overall record of 33-7. The USA won gold medals at at the men's FIBA 3x3 World Cup, the men's and women's FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cups and the inaugural men's and women's Pan American Games (pictured above after the men won gold to make it a USA sweep). In addition to the Pan American Games 3x3 golds, two of those golds - the men's gold medals at the FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup and FIBA World Cup - were firsts for the USA.