The deft youngsters will represent Victoria Country against the best basketballers their age from across Australia's metropolitan and country regions. 

In a remarkable show of strength, the Bendigo Basketball Association (BBA) will supply three of the 10-players named in the Victoria Country under-16 girls team.

They are top age player Olivia Noter and bottom-agers Meg McCarthy and Piper Dunlop.

The trio were the standouts of the Braves under-16 team coached by Nick Salm, which was crowned Victorian country champions in February.

They will be joined in Perth by another bottom-ager Dyson Daniels, who has been chosen in the Victoria Country under-16 boys' team.

Bendigo's links to the championships do not end there, with Braves Big V men's coach Tom Thorn appointed as a development coach for the boys' team.

BBA director of coaching Jonathan Goodman said the fact three of the players were bottom-aged capped an already remarkable achievement by all four.

"Hopefully those bottom-agers will get an opportunity to do it again in another 12 months," he said.

"But right now the Australian junior championships is the pinnacle competition for this age-group and this will be the highest level they will compete at against similar age players.

"This is the best-of-the-best and there's no doubt they are great kids, extremely coachable and belong at national level.

"It's a credit to our (Braves) coaches that these kids have got so far, a lot of people have played a part.

"But ultimately the players themselves have worked hard and deserve all the recognition they can get."

The championships will be stage in the Perth suburb of Stirling from July 8-15.

Victoria's two metropolitan teams will start the tournament as reigning champions, with the boys' country team looking to improve on last year's silver medal performance.

Thorn, who is coaching at his first under-16 nationals and assists Ben McCauley as coach of the Braves under-16 team, said the championships would give the four youngsters a chance to showcase their unique talents in front of scouts and some of Australia's top coaches.

And for him it's a chance to further his development on the sidelines.

"In some ways I'm brand new at it, like the girls and Dyson, so I don't know overly what to expect, but I'm excited about the opportunities," he said.

"The under-16 boys won the silver medal last year so there will definitely be high hopes on getting another medal, even a gold medal."