Elyse Penaluna

Elyse Mary Penaluna (born 23 April 1988) is an Australian basketball forward. She has played in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) for the Australian Institute of Sport and the Bulleen Boomers, winning a WNBL Championship with that team in 2011/2012. She has been a member of Australia women's national basketball team (the Opals), representing the country in its 2012 Olympic qualifying campaign. Playing for Australia's Australian U21 Sapphires, she won a silver medal at the FIBA Under-21 World Championship for Women in 2007.

Personal Penaluna was born on 23 April 1988. She was attending the Swinburne University of Technology in 2011. In 2007, she averaged 13.6 points per game for the Hume City Broncos in the Big V league despite missing a number of games because of junior national team commitments. That season, she played as a center. Penaluna was part of the silver medal-winning Sapphire team at the FIBA Under 21 World Championships in Moscow, Russia, in her debut with the team in 2007 She played for the Bulleen Boomers for the first time in the 2007/2008 season. in which she had 15 points and 11 rebounds. She played for Bulleen again in 2009/2010, when the again team made it to the Grand Final. In 2010/2011, she played as a forward for the team in every game of the regular season, and averaged 7.4 rebounds per game and had a shooting percentage of 50% from the field. Her team won the championship that season.

National team Penaluna made her debut with national team (the Opals) in a three-game test series against China in 2009. On 2 September 2009, she played in the return game against New Zealand women's national basketball team in the Oceania Championship in Canberra. In 2010, she played in the World Challenge Series against Japan women's national basketball team. The series was three games long, and one of the games was played in Geelong. Her team won the first game. She was a major factor in the Australian's second game win where she scored 17 points. She was named to the 2012 Australia women's national basketball team, but was later "ruled out through injury".