Bowyn Beatty still remembers the exact moment his phone rang.
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It was 6.52pm on Wednesday, and the first thing the voice on the other end said was "congratulations".
"I was like 'what?'," Beatty said.
Before long they broke the news - the 15-year-old rising star has been selected in the Australian under 16 team for the looming FIBA Asia Cup.
The enormity of the occasion is still sinking in for the son of Capitals great Tracey Peacock - Beatty grew up around WNBL training sessions and was there on the dais as his mother celebrated the 2005-06 championship win.
Dates and venues are yet to be announced for the Asia championships but a top four finish - whenever and wherever the tournament takes place - will see them qualify for next year's world championships in Bulgaria.
Beatty was always hopeful - but as an underage player he feared his time might not come until next year.
"Mum has done the same process and she knows how it is, she knows sometimes not getting into a team sucks," Beatty said.
"We were hoping it wouldn't happen but were getting ready for it just in case it happened. It didn't.
"I honestly couldn't stop thinking about it since that phone call. We will be doing training in Australia before we go over, whenever that is, but I have another camp until then anyway so I'll be prepared for it.
"I just went to nationals and didn't expect that to happen, then I went to training camp, now I am on the actual team.. It's been pretty crazy for the past three months.
"I play just about everything. I play for my school, club, state, and now I'm playing nationally. That's all going pretty good. My last game was pretty exciting for me, I had a couple of dunks."
Of course he did - at 202, maybe 203 centimetres tall, the teenager is already on par with his mother.
Beatty has been able to dunk for almost a year - he still has times when he can't quite nail it, but rest assured "I've had my moments".
Now he wants to have plenty more as he takes another step towards his goal of playing for the Boomers at the Olympic Games.
"It would be lovely to go to the 2024 Olympics, but I'm thinking more 2028," Beatty said.
Meanwhile, rising Canberra Capitals star Keely Froling will join the Australian three-on-three team at the FIBA women's world series in Japan this weekend.
Australia's six-nation world series campaign gets underway in Tokyo against Japan on Saturday afternoon with the tournament finals taking place on Sunday.