Ballarat teenager Georgia Amoore is getting another opportunity to foster her basketball career at international level.
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The Ballarat Rush guard has been selected to play for Australia in the FIBA Asia Under-18 3x3 Cup in Malaysia on August 22-24.
She joins Shyla Heal (New South Wales), Casey Valenti-Paea (Victoria) and Ruby Porter (South Australia) in the team.
Heal, Amoore and Porter were team-mates in Australia's bronze medal team at the FIBA World Under-17 Championships.
Australia's men's and women's players will travel to Cyberjayao for the fifth edition of the event, which will be played in a shopping mall.
Amoore, who is a Year 12 student at Loreto College, said selection had come out of the blue, with normal formal selection process leading up to the naming of the team.
She said her 3x3 experience was limited, having competed in only a few event, but was looking forward to another challenge on the international stage.
Twelve 12 teams will contest each of the men's and women's divisions, divided into four pools of three teams.
FORMER Ballarat Miners player and St Patrick's College student Nathan Sobey has been named in the Australian Boomers' final squad for the World Cup in China next month.
Originally from Warrnambool, Sobey played with the Miners in 2014.
Boomers coach Andrej Lemanis overlooked players with NBA experience in his final 12 selection for the World Cup.
Mitch Creek and Deng Adel, alongside 2016 Olympian Brock Motum, are the major omissions from a side that still boasts a wealth of NBA talent.
NBA regulars Joe Ingles, Aron Baynes, Patty Mills, Jonah Bolden and Matthew Dellavedova will lead a side chasing its first major international medal, while veteran centre Andrew Bogut is the reigning NBL MVP and is back with the Sydney Kings after a short-term stint with the Golden State Warriors.
"The toughest part of this job is telling a player who cares about the program and has just given everything they have for the good of the team that they haven't been selected," Lemanis said.
"The depth of Australian basketball also means that these guys are extremely skilled and often it simply comes down to team balance."
Australia will play Canada, Lithuania, and Senegal in the first group phase in China, but have double-headers against Canada and the United States in Perth and Melbourne before the World Cup.
