ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell senior men's basketball player Eitan Chemerinski has been named to the U.S.A. Basketball Team that will compete at the 19th Maccabiah Games from July 17-30 in Israel. Chemerinski will play for the Open Team that includes several familiar names to Ivy League fans, including Penn's Zack Rosen and Columbia's Alex Rosenberg.

The U.S. team will be coached by Brad Greenberg, the former coach at Radford who is now at Maccabi Haifa. The games are an international Jewish athletic event held in Israel every four years. The games are open to Jewish athletes, as well as Israeli athletes regardless of religion.

A 6-8, 225-pound forward, Chemerinski will graduate as Cornell's career leader in field goal percentage (.617), He shot .632 from the floor in his final season in 31 contests, including 20 starts. Chemerinski had six double figure scoring efforts that included a career-high 19-point, six-rebound effort in the win over Longwood and a 17-point effort in a triumph at Binghamton. For the season, Chemerinski averaged 5.9 points and 3.2 rebounds to go with 25 steals in 19.5 minutes per game. The two-time CoSIDA Academic All-District selection was part of the 2009-10 squad that won the Ivy League title, advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16 and finished the season ranked No. 17 in the final national polls.