Dunlap is credited as the coach who kick-started the NBL career of the 36ers all-time leading home grown player Brett Maher in the 1994 season (Maher had debuted for the 36ers in 1992 and would go on to be the leading point scorer (8,941) and games record holder at the club (526), captaining the team to 3 NBL titles as well as having a distinguished international career for the Australian Boomers before retiring in 2009).
The next year, at the 2006 FIBA World Championship, which was held in Japan, Zisis hit a game winning 3-point shot at the end of the game against the Australian national basketball team to give Greece a 72-69 victory.
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Australia and Iceland won the Group A and Group B tournaments respectively and gained promotion to Division II for the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships.
Ainārs Zvirgzdiņš (born March 2, 1959 in Sabile) is a Latvian basketball coach, mostly known with the Latvia women's national basketball team.
In the summer of 2010, Drummond was a member of the gold medal winning United States team at the 2010 FIBA Under-17 World Championship.
The breakthrough season was 2009-10, when Andres Sõber managed to form a team, which consisted of experienced players, such as former Dutch champion Valmo Kriisa, NBA player Martin Müürsepp, young prospect Rain Veideman, member of the Canada men's national basketball team Richard Elias Anderson and basketballers ranked out of stronger squads (TÜ/Rock, BC Kalev/Cramo), Kristo Saage, Rain Raadik and Sven Kaldre for instance.
She was a member of the French national team between 1994 and 2007, winning the 2001 Eurobasket.
Barry Dancer/Brent Dancer and Ric Charlesworth/Jonathan Charlesworth are two pairs of father as coach and son as player while both were affiliated with the national team in those positions.
Goalball national team members who have been part of this program include Warren Lawton, Robert Crestani and Kevin Frew.
Australia's ice hockey team has participated in just one Winter Olympics: the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley, California.
In 2011, Bhutan's national basketball team played its first international match in the 26th FIBA Asia zone qualifying tournament in New Delhi.
As a result of the good performance of Shanghai Sharks in this season, Donewald was chosen as the coach of Chinese National Basketball Team to replace his predecessor Guo Shiqiang on April 30, 2010, and thus left Shanghai Sharks.
He is currently playing for the Rain or Shine Elasto Painters in the Philippine Basketball Association and is a former member of the Philippine national basketball team.
This successful tenure also lead to him being selected in the Boomers squad for the 2004 Olympic Games and the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
He was an assistant coach under Rudy Tomjanovich with the US national team in the 1998 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.
He also refereed the basketball finals between the United States and Canada at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, played outdoors in the rain, in the first Games at which basketball was a medal sport.
In the offseason, Hayward was selected to Team USA for the 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship in Auckland, New Zealand.
She was a member of the national team that won the European title in 2005 by defeating Russia in the final.
After thirteen seasons with the club and winning a gold medal in the Barcelona Olympics with the Dream Team, Bird retired in 1992 primarily due to his back injuries.
He was a member of the U.S. national team at the 1978 FIBA World Championship.
McGee was asked by the Gilas Pilipinas to take part as a naturalized player for the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Spain and the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
He joined the Kookaburras in 2009, where he was coached by his father Ric Charlesworth.
She competed internationally for Brazil at the 2004, 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Katherine Washington is a former American women's basketball player, who played on the first two U.S. women's national teams, earning world championships in 1953 and 1957.
Hibbert was a member of the national team roster during the 2000s and played in the Australian team that won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
Davidson was named a member of the Australian Boomers squad for the 2006 Commonwealth Games but injury prevented him from playing with the gold medal team.
Kruger was an assistant coach under Rudy Tomjanovich for the US national team in the 1998 FIBA World Championship, winning the bronze medal.
She won the gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, with the Unified Team of twelve former Soviet Republics, and a fourth place at the 1996 Summer Olympics with the Ukrainian national team.
He played for the US national team also known as Dream Team II, in the 1994 FIBA World Championship, winning the gold medal.
On temporary assignment from Samford, Hanks served as an assistant coach to then Texas coach, Bob Weltlich for the US national team in the 1982 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal in Cali, Colombia.
Before coming to the NBA, he played for the U.S. men's national basketball team at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, winning the bronze medal.
Before, she used to practice basketball — even played with Adrianinha and Kelly of the current national team — and volleyball, which she abandoned after a pregnancy.
After recovering from his injury, Crosswell suited up for the 36ers in the 2012–13 NBL season and was named as co-captain of the team along with new recruit, Aussie Boomers 2012 London Olympian Adam Gibson.
Their son Luke is a member of the Australian water polo team, playing as a goalkeeper.
Olayinka Sanni, Mfon Udoka, Mercy Okorie, Ononiwu Chisaokwu, Ekworomadu Joyce, Ugochukwu Oha, Charity Egenti, Sefi Mojidi, Marie Izidor Enjol, Chioma Udeaja, Funmilayo Ojelabi-Ogunleye, and Amaka Adibeli.
The final saw the United States defeat Greece 88-80.
In 1948, the 66ers combined with Adolph Rupp's "Fabulous Five" University of Kentucky team to form the U.S. team that won the Olympic tournament.
Allen later coached in the 1952 Summer Olympics, leading the United States to the gold medal in Helsinki, Finland.
Moon received his first and only callup to represent Australia in 2001 where he joined the national senior team to compete in the 2001 IIHF World Championship Division II Group A tournament being held in Majadahonda, Spain.
Howell was first called up to represent Australia in 2001 where he joined the national senior team to compete in the 2001 IIHF World Championship Division II Group A tournament being held in Majadahonda, Spain.
She competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 1995 Jones Cup Team that won the Bronze in Taipei.
Greer was first called up to represent Australia in 2006 where he joined the national under-18 team to compete in the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championship Division II Group B tournament being held in Elektrėnai and Kaunas, Lithuania.
Oultram was first called up to represent Australia in 2004, where he joined the national under-20 tean to compete in the 2005 IIHF World U20 Championship Division II Group B tournament being held in Puigcerdà, Spain.
The coach for Team USA is Connecticut Huskies women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma.
He led them to their first Olympic victory in the 1972 Olympics (they beat USA in the controversial final game on a last second shot by Alexander Belov).
Wang Zhelin first gained recognition when he was first selected to the China national basketball team's preliminary squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics in March 2012, but he failed to make the final twelve-man squad.
Nine of the first team selections won Olympic gold medals with Team USA, and eight won league championships, including three—Cynthia Cooper-Dyke, Sheryl Swoopes, and Tina Thompson—who won four consecutive titles with the Houston Comets.