Despite her age, Wie should fit right in on the youngest U.S. team ever.

The oldest player is Sarah Huarte, a 21-year-old senior at California who won the prestigious South Atlantic Ladies Amateur earlier this year. It was the first time no mid-amateurs (25 or older) were included on the U.S. team.

Wie is joined by Paula Creamer and U.S. Women's Amateur runner-up Jane Park, both 17; Duke freshman Brittany Lang, 18; Arizona sophomore Erica Blasberg, 19; Duke sophomore Elizabeth Janangelo, 20; and Annie Thurman, a 21-year-old junior at Oklahoma State who won the '02 Women's Amateur Public Links.

The United States is the defending champion and has a 23-6-3 lead in the biennial matches that date to 1932. The '04 matches will be June 12-13 at Formby Golf Club on the Lancashire coast of England.

The GB&I team will be announced April 19.

U.S. captain Martha Wilkinson Kirouac watched several of these teenagers compete over the last six months, and said earlier this week that youth would not be a detriment.

"They're not lacking," Kirouac said. "You can't hold age against them."

Wie, a 6-footer with a powerful, fluid swing, has played well beyond her years ever since she qualified for the Women's Amateur Public Links as a 10-year-old.

She won the Public Links last year, making her the youngest winner of a USGA event for adults.

It was her biggest victory, although the ninth-grader at Punahou School was even more impressive competing against professionals on the LPGA and PGA Tours.

She became the youngest player on the PGA Tour last month at the Sony Open, where she shot 68 in the second round and missed the cut by one shot, the lowest score ever by a female competing against men.

In seven LPGA events last year, she made the cut six times and played in the final group at the Kraft Nabisco Championship, the first major of the year. She wound up in a tie for ninth.