Hey, @JLo, etc. JMU’s Gwathmey, Puerto Rican national team are Olympic bound!

Jazmon Gwathmey read the text from former teammate Kirby Burkholder and struggled to process the meaning. Wait a minute. Gwathmey learned from Burkholder that she made the Olympics as a member of the Puerto Rican national team?

Hang on. We’ll explain.

Undersized Puerto Rico pulled the stunner of the FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament last week, upending favored Brazil 91-89 in overtime.

With three qualifying for Tokyo 2020 from the four-team bracket, it was was a monumental win from Puerto Rico, ranked 23rd in the world. After Brazil’s loss to France the next day, all Puerto Rico needed to qualify for Tokyo was an Australia victory over Brazil. Liz Cambage and her Aussie teammates delivered only Gwathmey couldn’t watch.

Instead, she stewed in the lockerroom with her other nervous teammates, an undersized collection of scrappy talent representing Puerto Rico that had hastily organized in France just days earlier.

“Brazil had the momentum going into the second half so I couldn’t watch the fourth quarter,” said Gwathmey, whose mother, Iris Campos, is of Puerto Rican descent. “We were just watching the clock wind down.”

Score? she’d text her dad.

He fed her updates.

Burkholder, playing professionally in Hungary, joined the conversation, hence the celebratory text that left Gwathmey speechless for a spell.

Gwathmey didn’t react. Was this real, she wondered?

The Puerto Rican women’s team has never qualified for the Olympics in its history.

“This is just what our island needed after going through so much,” Gwathmey said.

A game with France remained; the result didn’t matter. Puerto Rico was in; Brazil, out. Postgame, Gwathmey had another surprise: She was named to what’s called the All-Star Five along with Cambage, UConn’s Bria Harley, Bec Allen and MVP Sandrine Gruda.

“Those are all great players,” said Gwathmey, who averaged 17.5 points and 5.3 rebounds in the three games (she scored 30 versus Australia). “I  didn’t think I  was going to be standing next to them holding that award.”

It sure seems like ions ago that the 6-2 raw perimeter tweener from Bealton, Va.,  was asked to redshirt by Kenny Brooks. Man, she hated the idea at the time.

“I  remember that day,” she said. “I  literally cried. Because I didn’t want to. I  didn’t want to sit out.”

She glared at Brooks. “All right. Fine,” she responded.

Brooks, now coaching Virginia Tech, reflected on the moment in congratulating his former player, a dual citizen in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, on Twitter.

How well did that redshirt season work out? Gwathmey went on be the 2016 CAA Player of the Year (if we may, yet another example of the player development that sets Brooks apart as a coach). The All-Rookie selection her freshman year was named CAA Tournament MVP as a soph. And as a junior. And as a senior. Her 1,555 points rank eighth in JMU history and her 173 blocks, second. The long, lanky, smooth guard drained just 15 3-pointers in her first two seasons. The next two? She buried 90, including 63 in a senior season when she led JMU to a CAA championship and NCAA Tournament.

Gwathmey became the third-ever Duke drafted (Tamera Young, Lauren Okafor) and played three seasons for the Indiana Fever.

She’s living the life in San Martino, Italy now, where she calls the fans, the town and the pasta all great., though she misses Girl Scout thin mints.

Next up: They’ll be Olympic scrimmages in Canada for the Puerto Rican national team, and she’s jazzed for her first trek to Tokyo.

Gwathmey can’t really say she dreamed of the Olympics. “Sometimes it crossed my mind, but mostly I just wanted to play basketball on a big stage. I didn’t really think this day would come, and I could be on the Olympic stage, but playing WNBA, playing overseas was good for me. This just tops the cake right here.”

Her parents were the initial calls she made, Dad first.

“He was so happy for the win and then I hung with him and called my mom. He texted me and said, ‘Call me back.’ My mom is screaming. I called him back and said, ‘What’s up?’ ”

“I forgot to tell you that you played a good game. I  was so excited for the win, I  forgot to tell you that you really played a great game.”

Gwathmey’s also felt the love from an island still recovering from Hurricane Maria followed by a devastating earthquake. Warm wishes have poured in from the Puerto Rico mayor, Carmen Yulin Cruz, rapper Bad Bunny and JJ Barea from the Mavs. JMU nation sent its love.

If it’s not too big of an ask, Gwathmey has one more request.

“If J.Lo gives you a shoutout, I  figure you’ve made it,” she said.

Trust us, Jazmon. You’ve made it!