Sri Lankan-Aussie pro baller Chantella Perera, 5′9″, is a rainmaker in Melbourne for the Dandenong Rangers (via Brown People):

Perera was a member of the Australian Sapphires team which won a silver medal in the under 21 World Championships… after a four-year playing and studying stint at Fresno State… [Link]

Chantella is the second daughter of former Sri Lanka National 800m record holder… Prasad Perera and 400m women’s National Champion and record holder Indrani Perera… [Link]

Last November, she was asked to testify in a sexual harassment suit at her alma mater CSU Fresno:

Chantella Perera was in tears… as she told jurors she did not have an inappropriate relationship with her assistant coach Drew Champagne… [Link]

[Former Fresno State women’s basketball coach Stacy] Johnson-Klein claims another assistant coach, Drew Champagne, may have had an inappropriate relationship with one of her players, Chantella Perera… Attorneys noted Perera is the same player who told university officials Johnson-Klein had taken Vicodin from her. The term “ax to grind” was used… [Link]

Perera has often said she’d help put together a basketball team for Sri Lanka, which sounds like a thankless task on that cricket-crazy island.