AUS - Queen quizzes Cambage
CANBERRA - “You must be a basketball player,” Her Royal Highness Queen Elisabeth II said as she was introduced to another Elisabeth, 2.03m Australian centre Elizabeth Cambage. The 20-year-old, who plays for Melbourne's NBL team the Bulleen Boomers and WNBA side Tulsa Shock, was attending a reception in Canberra held by Australi's Prime ...
CANBERRA - “You must be a basketball player,” Her Royal Highness Queen Elisabeth II said as she was introduced to another Elisabeth, 2.03m Australian centre Elizabeth Cambage.
The 20-year-old, who plays for Melbourne's NBL team the Bulleen Boomers and WNBA side Tulsa Shock, was attending a reception in Canberra held by Australi's Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Cambage described the rest of her brief encounter with the Queen, whom she dwarfs by as much as 40cm: “I said, ‘how can you tell?’ The queen replied, ‘you must find it very easy.’ We had a little chuckle and she moved on.”
The Queen is currently on a tour of Australia, with her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh.
Liz Cambage, made her senior debut for Australia in the 2009 FIBA Oceania Championship averaging 20 points and six rebounds per game. She followed that up with 13.6 points and 5.4 rebounds per game in the 2010 FIBA World Championship, resulting in her inclusion in the tournament's All-Star Five.
Cambage may get the chance to showcase her skills to the Queen next year in London at the Olympic basketball tournament where Australia will be trying to better the three Olympic silver medals they won in 2000, 2004 and 2008.
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