BALLARAT Miners have signed American college high-flyer Gerard Anderson for the 2012 South East Australian Basketball League season.
The 198-centimetre forward joins the Miners out of the NBA D-League.
Anderson, 24, previously spent two seasons with Cal State Fullerton in California in the American National Collegiate Athletic Association.
He was named in the NCAA's All-Big West Conference first team in 2009-10.
From Los Angeles, he was the in the conference's top 10 in rebounding average, assists average and field goal percentage.
The previous year Anderson collected the conference's fourth-highest average in steals and eighth-highest average for blocks. In Anderson's final year for Cal State he averaged 12 points and six rebounds with an impressive shooting accuracy of 53 percent.
Anderson won the 2009-10 NCAA dunk of the year competition, with another of his dunks taking second place.
He joins Sydney Kings development player Kevin White as new signings.
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