Louella Tomlinson

Louella Tomlinson
Melbourne Boomers
Position Center
League Women's National Basketball League
Personal information
Born (1988-04-08) 8 April 1988
Melbourne, Victoria
Nationality Australian
Listed height 193 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Career information
High school Lake Ginninderra (Canberra, ACT)
College Saint Mary's (2007–2011)
WNBA draft 2011 / Undrafted
Playing career 2004–present
Career history
2004–2007 AIS
2011–2012 Dandenong Rangers
2012–2013 Napoli Basket
2013–2014 PINKK-Pécsi 424
2014–2015 West Coast Waves
2015–2016 Perth Lynx
2016 Campus Promete Logrono
2016–2017 Diósgyőri VTK
2017–present Melbourne Boomers
Career highlights and awards
  • Hungarian League champion (2014)
  • WNBL champion (2012)
  • 3× First-team All-WCC (2009–2011)
  • 2× WCC Defensive Player of the Year (2009, 2010)
  • WCC All-Freshman Team (2008)
Medals
Representing  Australia
Basketball
World University Games
2009 Belgrade Team
2011 Shenzhen Team

Louella Brooke Tomlinson (born 8 April 1988) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Melbourne Boomers in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL).

Early life and career

Tomlinson was born and raised in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria. She moved to Canberra in 2004 on a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and attended Lake Ginninderra College.[1] Tomlinson debuted in the WNBL with the AIS during the 2004–05 season, but played minimal minutes in her first season. She played a further two seasons with the AIS before departing to play college basketball in the United States.

College career

Between 2007 and 2011, Tomlinson played for the Saint Mary's Gaels women's basketball program. As a senior in 2010–11, she averaged 14.1 points, 9.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 4.7 blocks in 32 games. She earned conference Defensive Player of the Year honours two times, and first-team All-WCC honours three times.[1]

Professional career

WNBL

Tomlinson returned to Australia to begin her professional career, joining the Dandenong Rangers for the 2011–12 WNBL season. In 22 games on the season, she averaged 3.1 points and 2.9 rebounds per game,[2] helping the Rangers win the championship alongside Jenna O'Hea and Kathleen MacLeod. Tomlinson returned to Australia for the 2014–15 WNBL season, moving to Perth to join the West Coast Waves. An injury plagued season limited her to just 12 games, averaging 12.4 points and 6.0 rebounds per game.[2] The fledgeling Waves managed just four wins in 2014–15, prompting Basketball WA to sell the team to the Perth Wildcats. The team was subsequently rebranded the Perth Lynx and Tomlinson signed on with the new program.[3] On 17 October 2015, she scored a career-high 29 points against the Melbourne Boomers, which earned her a spot on the Round 2 WNBL Team of the Week.[4] On 13 January 2016, she was ruled out for four to six weeks with an ankle injury.[5] She returned to the line-up for the team's final three games of the regular season, helping the Lynx finish second on the ladder with a 16–8 win/loss record. The Lynx went on to defeat the first-seeded Townsville Fire in the semi-finals, thus advancing to the WNBL grand final for the first time since 1999.[6] There they were outclassed by the defending champion Townsville (who made it to the grand final via the preliminary final), losing the best-of-three series 2–0. In 23 games for the Lynx in 2015–16, she averaged 9.0 points, 5.3 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 2.0 blocks per game. Tomlinson will return home to Victoria after a year abroad in Europe, after signing with the Melbourne Boomers for the 2017–18 WNBL season.[7]

Europe

For the 2012–13 season, Tomlinson played in Italy for Napoli Basket where she averaged 14.7 points, 12.9 rebounds, 2.1 steals and 3.4 blocks in 29 games. She moved to Hungary for the 2013–14 season, joining PINKK-Pécsi 424. She helped her Hungarian club win the league championship behind averages of 14.2 points, 6.0 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 2.7 blocks per game. In July 2016, Tomlinson signed with Campus Promete Logrono of the Spanish Liga Femenina de Baloncesto.[8] However, her tenure was short lived as then she returned to Hungary after signing with Diósgyőri VTK for the remainder of the 2016–17 season.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 #2 Louella Tomlinson
  2. 1 2 Player statistics for Louella Tomlinson
  3. ↑ PERTH LYNX SIGN LOUELLA TOMLINSON
  4. ↑ LOUELLA TOMLINSON NAMED IN WNBL TEAM OF THE WEEK
  5. ↑ TOMLINSON RULED OUT FOR 4-6 WEEKS
  6. ↑ LYNX SMASH FIRE, QUALIFY FOR GRAND FINAL
  7. ↑ Louella Tomlinson signs with Melbourne Boomers for WNBL season
  8. ↑ THANK YOU LOUELLA
  9. ↑ Louella Tomlinson Diósgyőr
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