Athletes from Central Victoria are putting the region on the map after a string of swimming medals, an NBA drafting and ahead of the Boomers World Cup qualifying campaign.
Maryborough's Matthew "Delly" Dellavedova will captain the Australian men's basketball team for the first time when the Boomers begin its World Cup qualifying campaign this week.Basketballers Matthew Dellavedova to captain Boomers while Dyson Daniels is drafted to the NBAThe former Cleveland Cavaliers and Milwaukee Bucks player will lead the Boomers when the team plays China in Melbourne on Thursday night.
"They're really [a] good, experienced team. They have some really big points of pressure on the ball and we need to make it hard for them to feed it into them," he said.The Boomers team will include six players on debut with Dellavedova among the more experienced.LoadingA 19-year-old point guard, who stands at 6 feet 11 inches, was snapped up by the New Orleans Pelicans at pick number 8 to boost its defence.
Sports stores say they expect Bendigonians to snap up NBA jerseys of Dyson Daniels when they are released in August ahead of the new NBA season starting in October. Pearse made headlines in 2020 when at the height of the coronavirus pandemic he and his family turned the dam on their dairy farm into a swimming pool and used milk bottles as lane ropes."It's like 200,000 people, a small little island, good weather, good pool. Really great people as well," he said.
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