AUS - Cambage named WNBL Player of the Year

MELBOURNE (WNBL) - Australia center Elizabeth Cambage was on Monday named MVP of Australia's WNBL after leading the Bulleen Boomers to the title.

Cambage, who shone at the FIBA World Championship for Women for the Opals last summer and will also be on the court this year at the FIBA Oceania Championship, was named Player of the Week in Rounds 6, 7 and 9, as well as Player of the Month in November and December.

The dominant force in the league, the 2.03m pivot averaged 22.3 points and 8.4 rebounds per game while shooting 59.6%.

Defensively, she swatted 2.8 shots per contest.

Cambage will be in Australia's Olympic team next summer when they compete at the London Games.

Next up is the WNBA Draft on April 11, however, with Cambage expected to be a top draft pick.

Cambage does not turn 20 until August 18.

She was named in the All-Star Five of the WNBL with fellow Bulleen Boomer Jenna O'Hea, Marianna Tolo of the Canberra Capitals, Amy Denson of the Sydney Uni Flames and Kathleen Macleod of the Dandenong Rangers.

Cambage will be the star attraction at the FIBA Oceania Championship For Women when the three-game series against the New Zealand Tall Ferns is held in Melbourne (September 7), Brisbane (September 9) and Sydney (September 11).

Those games will be played as part of a double-header with the men's FIBA Oceania Championship between the Australia Boomers and New Zealand Tall Blacks also being staged on the same days at the same venues.

FIBA