CANBERRA (2015 FIBA Oceania Women's Championship) - Madeleine Garrick has made the grade in training camp and earned a spot on the Opals roster for their forthcoming tour of Europe.

A shooting guard who played for the Australians at the 2011 FIBA U19 Women's Championship, Garrick's star has yet to take off in the WNBL but she earned an invite to the preliminary squad at Terrigal and made the most of the opportunity, impressing coach Brendan Joyce enough to gain a spot in the team.

The 23-year-old, who is now playing with Frankston in the SEABL, will suit up for the Melbourne Boomers for the next two years after signing a deal with them at the start of April.

On their tour of Europe, Joyce will lead the Opals against three teams - Serbia, Italy and Spain - that are gearing up for the EuroBasket Women in Romania and Hungary.

The squad will also square off against Venezuela.

Suzy Batkovic, meanwhile, looks determined to make an Australian Olympic squad for the fourth time in her career.

One of the most dominant players in WNBL history, Batkovic has followed up a title-winning campaign with Townsville Fire by earning a place in the Opals traveling squad.

Suzy was a surprise – I was worried about whether she could play at the speed we want. - Joyce

"You shouldn't do it but you make some assumptions," Joyce said to the Melbourne Age.

"She [Batkovic] didn't pull out of nothing we did including two-a-day trainings and she did a really good job of playing to our tempo."

Laura Hodges and Belinda Snell are other veterans named in the 12.

Hodges, Snell, Natalie Burton and Tessa Lavey are the four players in the European tour squad that celebrated a third-place finish at the FIBA Women's World Championship in Istanbul several months ago.

The others with chances to stake claims in the Australians' FIBA Oceania Women's Championship squad are Sara Blicavs, Katie Rae Ebzery, Alice Kunek, Elyse Penaluna, Stephanie Talbot and Kelly Wilson.

Penaluna, who missed this past WNBL season through injury, also signed recently with Melbourne.

"The girls that came into camp displayed a tremendous work ethic and performed really well which always makes it really challenging to select a team to go away," Joyce said.

Joyce does not have all of the players in the program at his disposal for this tour and some could miss the FIBA Oceania Women's Championship in August because of their commitments to overseas clubs.

Lauren Jackson and Liz Cambage, who missed the World Championship through injury, are hoping to be fit to face the Tall Ferns in Melbourne (15 August), and in Tauranga, New Zealand (17 August).

Nevertheless, Australia have plenty of talented and hungry players.

Joyce said: "What we're trying to do is to build on our style of play which was successful at the World Championships; to build on the Opals' culture that we've established in the last two years and continue to improve not only as a team, but also each individual so that we can challenge for a gold medal at the Olympic Games."

FIBA