Germany national team coach Imre Szittya was on hand to watch undefeated Wasserburg win their top-of-the-table clash against Saarlouis Royals at the weekend.

While the Royals lost, their emerging German international Romy Bär certainly made a very good impression on Szittya.

“	I have been invited to the national team training camp this summer. We just have to see how things work out.	„
ROMY BÄR

finished the game with 18 points, six rebounds and two assists.

"She can play at both the shooting guard and small forward positions," Szittya said of the 20-year-old who played at the U20 European Championship for Women last summer.

"She has all the tools already to play for the senior national team. She can defend the ball well and we need those types of players."

Szittya admitted he hopes the 1.87m Bär can continue to develop so he could line her up with 1.83m Anne Breitreiner to make up a deadly combo on the wings for the German national team.

"That's our goal, to use these two to fill the outside positions because then we have the size and versatility," he said.

"Both can drive to the basket and shoot from outside. And that would be good to take away a bit of our struggles from the outside," Szittya said.

German international center Corry Berger, who chipped in nine points, eight rebounds and one blocked shot as Wasserburg won 76-72 at home in overtime, also had praise for Bär.

"She's got good chances to not just play with the national team but to become an important part of the team," Berger said.

"She's a big versatile player who can do pretty much everything from dribbling to shooting to posting up. She's quick and she will find her way into the team very quickly."

Bär, who in the off-season moved from Chemnitz to Saarlouis, hopes to one day play for the senior national team.

"I have been invited to the national team training camp this summer," she said. "We just have to see how things work out. There are a couple of good players at my position right now. But I hope I can become a regular in the near future. That's my goal."

Bär has averaged 21 points, 5.8 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 2.0 steals per game while hitting 59% from inside the arc. But she does not have any immediate plans to leave Germany.

"Not in the next two years. I started university in Saarbrücken and want to finish that so that I have something in the hand," said the sports sciences student.

"Then I intend to go abroad."

As for the four-time defending German DBBL champions TSV Wasserburg, they remained undefeated at 12-0.

Katrina Hibbert and Rebecca Thoresen combined for 38 points.