Australian Women’s Basketball team in Beijing in August.

Bevilaqua, born Tully Louise Crook on July 19, 1972, is an Australian professional women’s basketball player.

She has just completed a contractual season with the Indiana Fever in the Women’s National Basketball Association in America and, in Australia’s Women’s

National Basketball League, she has just completed playing for the Canberra Capitals.

Bevilaqua helped the Capitals win the 2005-06 and 2006-07 championships.

She won gold at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and gold at the 2006 FIBA World Championships in Brazil.

She won a WNBA Championship with the Seattle Storm in 2004 and has previously played for the Cleveland Rockers and Portland Fire. She has also played in Hungary and Germany.

Since debuting with Perth in 1991, Bevilaqua has played 183 games, including 15 finals for Perth and scored 1333 points at 7.3 points per game.

Also during that time she won the Robyn Maher Medal for best defensive player in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999/00 and the WNBL Good Hands Award in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000.

The 164 cm Bevilaqua’s play style is energetic and disruptive, so much so that she is usually in the top 10 in steals. In the 2005 regular season, she had more

steals per turnover than any other player.

Bevilaqua was never drafted by a WNBA team, rather she was signed by the Cleveland Rockers as a free agent before the 1998 season began, but played only

12 regular-season games for them before being waived by the team.

In 2000, she signed a free agent contract with the Portland Fire and played with them for three seasons until the franchise folded.

In 2003, she signed another contract with the Seattle Storm, and played two seasons for them, capping the 2004 season with a WNBA Championship win.

In 2005, she signed with the Indiana Fever, and led them to a number two seed in the playoffs, where they beat the New York Liberty in two games, but in turn were beaten by the Connecticut Sun in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Despite Bevilaqua’s WNBA success, she failed to make the Australian national team until 2006 at the age of

34, when she helped lead the Opals to the gold medal in the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women.