Elyse Penaluna
| Bulleen Boomers | |
|---|---|
| Position | Forward |
| League | WNBL |
| Personal information | |
| Born | 23 April 1988 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Listed height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) |
Elyse Penaluna (born 23 April 1988) is an Australian basketball forward. She has played in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) for the Australian Institute of Sport and the Bulleen Boomers, winning a WNBL Championship with that team in 2011/2012. She has a been a member of Australia women's national basketball team (the Opals), representing the country in its 2012 Olympic qualifying campaign. Playing for Australia's Australian U21 Sapphires, she won a silver medal at the FIBA Under-21 World Championship for Women in 2007.
Penaluna was born on 23 April 1988. She is 193 centimetres (76 in) tall, and in 2007, she lived in Craigieburn, Victoria. She was attending the Swinburne University of Technology in 2011.
Penaluna plays forward. She is a "tall". In 2007, she averaged 13.6 points per game for the Hume City Broncos in the Big V league despite missing a number of games because of junior national team commitments. In 2011, she played for the Dandenong Rangers in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL). That season, she played as a center. In a match against the Hobart Chargers, she scored 29 points and had 6 rebounds in 17 minutes. She injured her knee in the grand final against the Knox Raiders with five minutes left in the game, which her team went on to win. Penaluna was part of the silver medal winning Sapphire team at the FIBA Under 21 World Championships in Moscow, Russia, in her debut with the team in 2007 She signed a contract to play basketball in Europe during the 2011/2012 season.
Penaluna had a scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 2004, and played with the AIS team in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). She played for the Bulleen Boomers for the first time in the 2007/2008 season. She was with the team for the 2008/2009 season, in which the team appearing in the league's Grand Final, in which she had 15 points and 11 rebounds. She played for Bulleen again in 2009/2010, when the again team made it to the Grand Final. In an October 2009 game, she had 20 points in a 109-63 victory over the Perth Lynx. In 2010/2011, she played as a forward for the team in every game of the regular season, and averaged 7.4 rebounds per game and had a shooting percentage of 50% from the field. She played for the Bulleen Boomers again in 2011/2012, Her team won the championship that season. and by May, she had re-signed with the team for 2012/2013.
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