STONY BROOK, N.Y. — India Pagan's spot on Puerto Rico's women's basketball team for the Olympics this summer appears secure.

In the interim, Pagan is eyeing success at the FIBA AmeriCup, which opens this weekend in San Juan, as she aims to help Puerto Rico qualify for the world tournament in Australia in 2022.

Pagan, a 6-foot-1 Stony Brook forward, and her Puerto Rico teammates open AmeriCup play on Friday against Venezuela.

After the AmeriCup, the team travels to Spain on July 10 for a scrimmage before heading onward to Tokyo and the Olympics five days later.

Pagan recently returned with her teammates from Belgium, where the team faced Nigeria, Belgium and Serbia in tune-ups.

Pagan became the 18th player in Stony Brook women's basketball history to reach 1,000 points with a free throw with 2:43 remaining at New Hampshire on Jan. 17. She completed the 2020-21 season owning the highest career field goal percentage in Stony Brook women's basketball history (.512, 460-899). She also was a second-team All-America East selection.

Pagan returns to the Seawolves this fall as a graduate student under first-year coach Ashley Langford.

Pagan is slated to become the third member of the Stony Brook community ever to compete in the Olympics. She follows Lucy Van Dalen '12, who ran the 5000 meter representing New Zealand in the 2012 Olympics in London, and the late Roger Gill '94, a sprinter who represented Guyana in the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.