Louella Tomlinson appreciates the fact that her family’s basketball reputation did not precede her arrival at Saint Mary’s College in the fall of 2007.
Back home in Melbourne, Australia, her father, Ray Tomlinson, twice represented his country at the Olympics and was inducted into Basketball Australia’s Hall of Fame. Her mother, Sandra Tomlinson, played at the FIBA World Championships twice.
“I’m from a big basketball family in Australia and that was one of the things that excited me about going to Saint Mary’s,” Tomlinson said. “No one knew who I was.”
That’s not to say Tomlinson wished to remain anonymous.