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PARIS (WFIE) – Team USA Women’s basketball is moving on to the gold medal Olympic game.

The team, which includes Princeton’s Jackie Young, played Australia Friday, and came out ahead with a score of 85 to 64.

14 of those points were from Young. She also had five assists.

The gold medal game is 8:30 a.m. Sunday.

Young was on the 3×3 team for the Tokyo Olympics and brought home the gold.

She’s also plays for the Las Vegas Aces, the winner of the last two WNBA championships.

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Young holds the record for the all-time leading scorer in high school basketball in Indiana – boys and girls.

She graduated from Princeton Community High School in 2016.

There was a watch party at the school Friday for the semifinal game.

“It’s big time for a small community, Princeton Community High School, that she has done as well as she has done,” said Young’s former coach Charles Mair. “She was the hardest worker I think I’ve ever coached. Probably the most unselfish player I’ve ever been around.”

It’s all paid off. Although Coach Maier isn’t totally letting her off the hook.

“Two games ago she scored 19 points, she hit five 3-pointers,” said Mair. “She missed a layup and I’m looking at that and I said ‘you know why she missed that layup? She shot off the wrong foot.’”

Wrong foot or not, her career is no doubt an inspiration.

“She kind of became a hero for us, someone to look up to,” said Princeton student and basketball player Jace Jenkins.

Especially for students like Ailie Taylor who watched her play growing up.

“I remember going to all the games and being there on the sideline,” said Taylor.

Now she’s watching with her classmates from the lunch table with the same dream Young had, now knowing it’s possible to get there.

“She’s shown us, if we just hard work, have determination, stay humble through it all, we can do anything,” said Taylor.

On Sunday, the Princeton Theatre and Community Center will host a watch party as 8:30 a.m. with the doors opening at 7:30 a.m. as she goes for her second gold medal.