Elizabeth Cambage
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| No. 8 – Melbourne Boomers | ||||||||||
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| Position | Center | |||||||||
| League | WNBL | |||||||||
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| Born |
18 August 1991 London, United Kingdom |
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||
| Listed height | 2.04 m (6 ft 8 in) | |||||||||
| Listed weight | 98 kg (216 lb) | |||||||||
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| High school | Padua College | |||||||||
| WNBA draft | 2011 / Round: 1 / Pick: 2nd overall | |||||||||
| Selected by the Tulsa Shock | ||||||||||
| Playing career | 2007–present | |||||||||
| Career history | ||||||||||
| 2007 | Dandenong Rangers | |||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Australian Institute of Sport | |||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Bulleen Boomers | |||||||||
| 2011 | Tulsa Shock | |||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Zhejiang Chouzhou | |||||||||
| 2013 | Tulsa Shock | |||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Beijing Great Wall | |||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Shanghai Boashan Dahua | |||||||||
| 2017–present | Melbourne Boomers | |||||||||
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| Stats at WNBA.com | ||||||||||
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Elizabeth Cambage (born 18 August 1991) is an Australian female professional basketball player who plays with the Zhejiang Golden Bulls in the Chinese Women's Basketball League and the Australian Opals. She most recently played for the Tulsa Shock of the Women's National Basketball Association.
She was born on 18 August 1991. Cambage was born in London to a Nigerian father and Australian mother. Her parents separated when Cambage was three months old and Cambage moved to Australia with her mother. First settling in Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, the family then moved to Melbourne and later the Mornington Peninsula.
She is 203 centimetres (6 ft 8 in) tall. She was teased about her height in school. At the age of ten she was 6 ft tall, reaching 6'5" by the time she was 14. She started playing basketball at her mother's suggestion when she was 10 as a way to make friends.
She plays center. In 2009, she played in the Under-20 Australian National Championships, and the ABC suggested she could be the next Lauren Jackson. The only international players surpassing Cambage are the late Margo Dydek, at 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m), and the late Sue Geh, at 2.05 metres (6 ft 9 in) tall.
Cambage played her junior basketball with Dandenong Rangers, joining their WNBL team for the 2007-08 season. In 2007, she accepted a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), and played for the AIS team, based in Canberra, in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL), for the remainder for the 2007-08 season and the following one In a November 2008 90-62 loss to the Adelaide Lightning, she scored 11 points, had 12 rebounds and fouled out of the game.
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