Indiana Women's Basketball to Embark on Greece Foreign Tour

For nine days in August, the Indiana women's basketball program will travel through Greece visiting Athens, Olympia and more while playing in two games for its first foreign trip since 2017.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — From August 1-10, Indiana women's basketball will take its first foreign tour in six years to Greece making stops in Athens and the Gulf of Corinth where it will explore Delphi and Nafpaktos. 

In addition, the team will take a full day trip to Olympia to experience the historic Olympic Gymnasium and Stadium. There’s always time for basketball as the Hoosiers will play two games, one in Athens and one in the Patras.

The Indiana University Athletics Women’s Excellence Initiative made this trip possible as its mission is to ‘raise private support to elevate its 13 women’s varsity sports and to enhance the overall student-athlete experience of IU’s female student-athletes'.

The last time the program took a foreign trip was under head coach Teri Moren in 2017 when the squad went to Italy. The NCAA only allows each team to take one foreign tour every four years. Indiana is allowed 10 practice days in July before the trip.

Ahead of the 2023-24 season the Hoosiers return nine veterans and four starters. Leading scorer and forward Mackenzie Holmes will compete in her last season as a Hoosier as one of two graduate students on the team including guard Sara Scalia.

Moren and her staff added three new faces to the roster this season in freshmen guards Julianna ‘Jules’ LaMendola and Lenee Beaumont, who both won their state’s respective Ms. Basketball honors and Gatorade Player of the Year awards. UT Martin transfer forward Sharnecce Currie-Jelks is also welcomed aboard for the OVC Freshman of the Year’s first season in the Big Ten.

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