Lightning’s Rummery Lamb excited with prospect to play outside of Australia with move to Newberry College in South Carolina looming

APRIL Rummery Lamb’s journey towards potentially playing in the WNBA continues with the young star excited to pursue her passion outside of Australia for the first time when she heads to the United States.

Lightning star post player April Rummery Lamb shown celebrating the 2020 DBA Championship triumph after her team downed Tracy Village in the final. Picture: Glenn Campbell

APRIL Rummery Lamb’s journey towards potentially playing in the WNBA continues with the young star excited to pursue her passion outside of Australia for the first time when she heads to the United States.

Having accepted a scholarship to study forensic psychology at Newberry College in South Carolina, the young gun will be taking her first steps towards realising her dream.

And if pursuing her passion in the United States wasn’t enough when she sets off in July, she will first be linking up with Central Districts in NBL1 Central.

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“Super excited, it should be an amazing experience and I’m looking forward to playing somewhere else outside of Australia,” Rummery Lamb told the NT News.

“Newberry seems like a really good school. The coach and the assistant coach are both really nice and really keen to see me develop and think I will be a great fit.

“When I was younger I wanted to be a WNBA player so I’m hoping to become a stronger and better player there and develop my skills particularly my ball skills so I can become a more versatile player.

“My goal is to be the best player I can be as basketball is my passion, but it’s also important to me to be able to study at the same time to set myself with a good job in the future.”

Rummery Lamb was also extremely proud of Lightning’s success in the 2020 Championship, with her side running out the winners after a 94-66 win over Tracy Village.

And it was her squad mates at Lightning particularly captain Claire Maree O’Bryan, Lauren Barnes and Dom Carbone who have been big influences on her development.

Coach Jason Ivinson and BNT high performance and development manager Rod Tremlett have also played massive roles in her growth.

“All the girls that I play with such as Claire, Laura and Dom have been massive with coach Ivo (Jason Ivinson) and Rod (Tremlett) also being really supportive,” Rummery Lamb said.

“I was so proud to get that second Championship. It was an amazing experience to be a part of with such a lovely group.

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“It was such an emotional win for us all and I’m just so happy to have been a part of it.

“Our energy at the beginning was massive. We usually start slow against Jets but we got ahead at the beginning and never lost that lead backing each other for the whole game.”