Elyse Penaluna (born April 23, 1988) is an Australian basketball forward. He has played in the National Women's Basketball League (WNBL) for the Australian Institute of Sport and Bulleen Boomers, winning the WNBL Championship with the team in 2011/2012. She has been a member of the Australian women's national basketball team (Opal), representing the country in the 2012 Olympic qualifying campaign. Playing for Australia U21 Sapphires Australia, she won silver medal at FIBA ​​Under-21 World Championship for Women in 2007.
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Personal
Penaluna was born on April 23, 1988. It was 193 cm (76 inches) tall, and in 2007, he lived in Craigieburn, Victoria. She attended Swinburne University of Technology in 2011.
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Basket
Penaluna plays forward. He is "tall". In 2007, he averaged 13.6 points per game for the Hume City Broncos in the Big V league despite missing a number of matches due to the commitment of the junior national team. In 2011, he played for Dandenong Rangers at the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL). That season, he played as center. In a game against Hobart Chargers, he scored 29 points and 6 rebounds in 17 minutes. He injured his knee in the grand final against Knox Raiders with five minutes remaining in the game, which his team continued to win. Penaluna is part of the Sapphire silver medal winning team at FIBA ​​Under 21 World Championships in Moscow, Russia, on his debut with the team in 2007 He signed a contract to play basketball in Europe during the 2011/2012 season.
WNBL
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). He played for Bulleen Boomers for the first time in the 2007/2008 season. He was with the team for the 2008/2009 season, where the team performed in the Grand Final of the league, where he had 15 points and 11 rebounds. He played for Bulleen again in 2009/2010, when the other team managed to reach the Grand Final. In an October 2009 game, he scored 20 points in a 109-63 victory over Perth Lynx. In 2010/2011, he played as a forward for the team in every regular season game, and averaged 7.4 rebounds per game and had a 50% shooting percentage from the field. He played for Bulleen Boomers again in 2011/2012, his team won the championship that season. and in May, he has signed a contract back with the team for 2012/2013.
National team
Penaluna debuted with the national team (the Opals) in a three-match test series against China in 2009. On September 2, 2009, he played in a return match against New Zealand's basketball team at the Oceania Championship in Canberra. In 2010, he played in the World Challenge Series against the Japanese women's national basketball team. The series is three long games, and one of the games is played in Geelong. He played in September 2011 three Olympic qualifying series against the women's New Zealand national basketball team. His team won the first game. He was a major factor in the victory of both Australian teams where he scored 17 points. He played in a game against New Zealand in Brisbane which is part of the Oceania qualifying tournament for the Olympics. He did not start, but scored 19 points off the bench, 11 of which came in the third quarter. He also represented Australia at the 2011 Summer Universiade in Shenzen, China, where Australia took home bronze medals, beating their opposition 66-56 in a bronze medal. He was appointed to the 2012 Australian women's national basketball team, but was later "ruled out for injury".
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