Danny Morseu

Danny Morseu (born 1 January 1958) is an Australian basketball player who played on the Australian national basketball team in the 1980 Summer Olympics and 1984 Summer Olympics.

International career Morseu played for the Australian team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, where Australia finished eighth, and at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where Australia finished seventh, their best Olympic result to that date. He also played twelve world cup matches for Australia.

Club career A Torres Strait Islander, Morseu was born in 1958 on Thursday Island in Far North Queensland. He spent his childhood in Tamwoy, a mission on Thursday Island, where he grew up without running water or electricity. He started playing basketball at school and despite being cut from his primary school team, he developed into a tall talented teenage athlete. He played 217 NBL games in total, winning another NBL championship with the Brisbane Bullets in 1987.

Later biography In 1984, he completed a Bachelor of Arts majoring in recreation from Footscray Institute of Technology. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended after four months. He was inducted into the Victoria University Sport Hall of Fame in 2007.