Career: Perth Breakers (Australia-WNBL, 1991-00), Cleveland Rockers (USA-WNBA, 1998), Portland Fire (USA-WNBA, 2000-02), GySEV-Ringa (Hungary-A, 2001), Sopron (Hungary-A, 2002), Wildcats Aschaffenburg (Germany-A, 2003), Seattle Storm (USA-WNBA, 2003-04), Indiana Fever (USA-WNBA, 2005-08)

International career: 33 games for Australia, Commonwealth Games (2006), FIBA World Championship (2006)

It took Tully Bevilaqua a long time to go from the fringe of the Opals squad to the final group, but she finally made it in 2006 and helped Australia’s women enjoy their finest moment at the FIBA World Championship in Brazil. Bevilaqua is a tenacious defender who turned 36 on July 19 and she’s playing arguably the best basketball of her career. Jan Stirling, the Australia coach, said Bevilaqua had a great chance to make the team at the 2008 Beijing Basketball Test Event and the player was thrilled once it was confirmed she’d made her first Olympic team. ''It was good to finally hear the words,'' said Bevilaqua, who joined the Opals in the third week of July from the WNBA’s Indiana Fever. “[Stirling] came over and met me in Houston and we spoke then and now to hear the words ‘you're in, you're going,’ it was a dream come true.”