STANFORD, Calif. – Alanna Smith is one of 20 players named by Basketball Australia to its selection camp for the upcoming 2018 FIBA World Cup.
The camp, which runs from August 10-17 at the Centre of Excellence at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, will help determine the 12-player squad that will travel to Spain for the FIBA Women's World Cup in late September.
This will be Smith's second go-around with Australia's Senior Women's National Team. She made her debut and won silver at last summer's FIBA Asia Cup in Bangalore, India and was one of two Australian players to score in double figures for the tournament, averaging 10.8 points on 58.3 percent shooting and 5.3 rebounds.
Smith has appeared in three other youth tournaments for Australia. She led Australia to a third-place finish and was named to the All-Star Five at the FIBA U19 Women's World Championship in Chekhov, Russia in July 2015 after pacing her team in points (12.6), rebounds (7.0), blocks (2.7) and steals (1.3).
The 6-foot-4 senior topped all competitors in scoring at the 2014 FIBA Oceania U18 Championship for Women, averaging 21.0 points on 65.2 percent shooting to go along with 7.2 rebounds and also represented Australia at the 2012 FIBA U17 World Championship for Women in Amsterdam, averaging 5.6 points and 5.0 rebounds per game.
An All-Pac-12 performer in 2017-18, Smith is Stanford's leading returning scorer and rebounder. She started all 35 games as a junior and averaged 13.5 points, 7.0 rebounds and 1.77 blocks in 28.4 minutes. Smith finished eighth in the league with seven double-doubles and became the Cardinal's 40th 1,000-point scorer (1,004) in the season's final game against No. 3 Louisville.
