Pair score rep duty

GEORGIA Amoore and Laura Taylor are off to Canberra as part of the Vic Country side competing at this week’s Australian Under-20 Championships.

Played at Basketball Australia’s Centre of Excellence from February 12-17, the tournament will see 30 teams compete in 99 games across six days for the Australian Under-20 & Iver Burge Championships.

Ballarat Basketball Association director of coaching Brendan Joyce said it was exciting to see the pair get the representative call-up.

“It’s fantastic to have two ladies selected for the U20 Victorian teams that will play in Australian Championships in Canberra starting today” he said.

Both Amoore and Taylor have been putting in a lot of work at the MARS Minerdome recently preparing for the tournament.

“It will be… a valuable learning experience that will hopefully see the players grow in their development from playing against the best players in the country for their age group” Joyce said.

“The U20s age group also provides a great insight to whom can go on and play senior basketball at an elite level.”