Launceston basketball prodigies Sejr Deans and Lauren Wise have received more national recognition.
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The pair have both been named in squads for Basketball Australia's four-day national performance camp and will travel to the sport's centre of excellence in Canberra on January 22.
Riverside High School student Deans, who will play with North-West Thunder in NBL1 this year, is fresh from helping Launceston Lightning to its maiden state league crown.
Former St Patrick's College student Wise is currently on a CoE scholarship at the AIS.
Both represented Australia at Oceania under-16 basketball championships in 2018.
The 2020 national performance camp will include four days of intensive on-court sessions and education workshops, as well as participation in the Basketball ACT Canberra Classic.
Athletes who were born in 2003 and 2004 have been selected from seven states and territories and will be coached by the centre of excellence coaches, plus a panel from the national performance program coaching network.
Centre of excellence men's head coach Adam Caporn will lead the men's camp, with WNBL life member and COE women's head coach Kristen Veal at the helm of the women's camp.
Squads
GIRLS: Kate Deeble (Queensland), Dallas Loughridge (Victoria), Tess Heal (Victoria), Lily Rotunno (Queensland), Paige Price (Victoria), Hailey Merrigan (Victoria), Lil Dart (Queensland), Isobel Borlase (South Australia), Charlise Dunn (Victoria), Madison Freer (South Australia), Nyadiew Puoch (Victoria), Sophie Burrows (Victoria), Alana Goodchild (NSW), Chyra Evans (NSW), Millie Prior (NSW), Ruby Vlahov (Western Australia), Amy O'Hara (Victoria), Lauren Wise (Tasmania), Amelia Hassett (NSW), Jasmine Whatley (Victoria)
BOYS: Sejr Deans (Tasmania), Tyrese Proctor (NSW), Kobe McDowell-White (Queensland), Evan Kilminster (NSW), Ky Stattmann (Queensland), Charlie Wyatt (South Australia), James Roche (Victoria), Fletcher MacDonald (NSW), Fiston Ipassou (South Australia), Alexander Toohey (ACT), Mason Davis (Queensland), Michael Walker (NSW), Josh Hughes (Queensland), Harrison Pennisi (Queensland), Patrick Twigg (Victoria), Kane Runnalls (Queensland), Bowyn Beatty (ACT), Yaak Yaak (South Australia), Geordan Papacostas (Queensland), Harry Evans (NSW)
Rob Shaw
Heralding the impact of Tasmanian sport without saying "punching above its weight" is not as easy as it sounds.
Heralding the impact of Tasmanian sport without saying "punching above its weight" is not as easy as it sounds.
