The six-foot eight guard is delighted to be home and couldn’t be happier to make Invercargill his new basketball home. “With all that’s going on, coming home made sense and for any young guy who has the goal of cracking the Australian NBL, playing for Bevo (Sharks coach Rob Beveridge) and the Sharks ticked all the boxes,” he said. After playing his high School basketball for Rangitoto College, Inger was signed to play for US Division 1 College Mount St. Mary’s before a late change in coaching staff saw the State-side opportunity close and a new one open up in Western Australia.
Toby Gillooly playing for New Zealand at the under-19 World Cup in Egypt in 2017.
The SIT Zero Fees Southland Sharks continues to build its 2021 National Basketball League playing roster with Canterbury’s Toby Gillooly the latest to put pen to paper. The 22-year-old six foot four guard joins Dom Kelman-Poto and Alonzo Burton as confirmed signings for next year’s Sal’s NBL and is yet another player attracted south by the chance to develop his game under the tutelage of Sharks’ coach Rob Beveridge. “When I talked to Bevo (Beveridge) and heard how he wanted to play, the winning culture that he is known for and how he wanted to develop me as a person and as a player, it just ticked all the boxes,” Gillooly said.