Future Saint Mary's basketball player, Matthew Dellavedova, was selected to be one of 12 players to compete for Australia's top national team, The Boomers. The Boomers are headed to South America for six games where they will play Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay twice before returning on August 10. The campaign is part of preparation for the 2009 FIBA Oceania Championship in New Zealand, beginning August 23 in Sydney, Australia, where World Championship seeding is on the line.
Dellavedova averaged 10.9 points, five rebounds and three assists per game in nine games while competing for the Australian Institute of Sports in the Southeast Australian Basketball League. He also was captain of the Australian U19 team at the FIBA U19 World Championships in New Zealand earlier this month. C. Graveson