Bulleen Boomers | |
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Position | Forward |
League | WNBL |
Personal information | |
Born | 23 April 1988 |
Nationality | Australian |
Listed height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
Elyse Mary Penaluna [1] (born 23 April 1988) is an Australian basketball forward. She has played in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) for the Australian Institute of Sport and the Bulleen Boomers, winning a WNBL Championship with that team in 2011/2012. She has been a member of Australia women's national basketball team (the Opals), representing the country in its 2012 Olympic qualifying campaign. Playing for Australia's Australian U21 Sapphires, she won a silver medal at the FIBA Under-21 World Championship for Women in 2007.
Penaluna was born on 23 April 1988. [2] She is 193 centimetres (76 in) tall, [2] [3] [4] and in 2007, she lived in Craigieburn, Victoria. [4] She was attending the Swinburne University of Technology in 2011. [5]
Penaluna plays forward. [2] She is a "tall". [6] In 2007, she averaged 13.6 points per game for the Hume City Broncos in the Big V league despite missing a number of games because of junior national team commitments. [4] In 2011, she played for the Dandenong Rangers in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL). [7] That season, she played as a center. [7] In a match against the Hobart Chargers, she scored 29 points and had 6 rebounds in 17 minutes. [7] She injured her knee in the grand final against the Knox Raiders with five minutes left in the game, which her team went on to win. [8] Penaluna was part of the silver medal-winning Sapphire team at the FIBA Under 21 World Championships in Moscow, Russia, in her debut with the team in 2007 [4] [5] She signed a contract to play basketball in Europe during the 2011/2012 season. [8]
Penaluna had a scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 2004, and played with the AIS team in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). [9] [10] She played for the Bulleen Boomers for the first time in the 2007/2008 season. [4] She was with the team for the 2008/2009 season, in which the team appearing in the league's Grand Final, [11] in which she had 15 points and 11 rebounds. [12] She played for Bulleen again in 2009/2010, when the again team made it to the Grand Final. [11] In an October 2009 game, she had 20 points in a 109–63 victory over the Perth Lynx. [13] In 2010/2011, she played as a forward for the team in every game of the regular season, and averaged 7.4 rebounds per game and had a shooting percentage of 50% from the field. [11] She played for the Bulleen Boomers again in 2011/2012, [2] [3] [14] Her team won the championship that season. [3] and by May, she had re-signed with the team for 2012/2013. [15] [16]
Penaluna made her debut with national team (the Opals) in a three-game test series against China in 2009. [17] [18] On 2 September 2009, she played in the return game against New Zealand women's national basketball team in the Oceania Championship in Canberra. [19] In 2010, she played in the World Challenge Series against Japan women's national basketball team. The series was three games long, and one of the games was played in Geelong. [17] She played in September 2011 three game Olympic qualification series against the New Zealand women's national basketball team. [3] [8] [20] Her team won the first game. She was a major factor in the Australian's second game win where she scored 17 points. [20] She played in a game against New Zealand in Brisbane that was part of the Oceania qualifying tournament for the Olympics. [3] She did not start, but scored 19 points coming off the bench, [3] 11 of which came in the third quarter. [3] She also represented Australia at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzhen, China, where Australia took home a bronze medal, beating their opposition 66–56 in the bronze medal match. [5] She was named to the 2012 Australia women's national basketball team, [21] but was later "ruled out through injury". [22]
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