Matilda Flood, Sara Matthews and Zak Simons to represent NSW at Australian Junior Under 20s Basketball Championships

Matilda Flood and Sara Matthews will line of the NSW women's side, while Bathurst Goldminers junior and Blayney native Zak Simons has been selected for the men's equivalent.

Eighteen-year-old Flood said the her NSW side will be a force in the competition, regardless of a tricky training schedule for her team.

"We've had a couple of training sessions, with a training session on the Australia Day long weekend and two games," she said.

"We came together really well as a team, working together really well and we're really strong considering we're all over the place, like all over NSW.

"Sara and I are from Bathurst, but there are players from Sydney and Dubbo, so it can be a bit hard to get to training.

"We've had about three to four training sessions now and we've moulded and bonded really well as a team considering how spaced out we are."

Flood said NSW's rivals from south of the border have two teams and their main team is expected to be the side to beat.

"I reckon we'll do well, but Victoria is always the team we have to watch," he said.

"It's always between NSW and Victoria but all the teams will be hard.

"Normally it's the country and the metro sides of each state, but now we're playing the whole state, so it's going to be a lot stronger than what we're use to."

Only aged 17-years-old, Flood was selected to play for the same team at last year's championships, one of nine bottom-age players selected in the NSW team in 2019.

And while basketball may be her main sport - having won medals for Australian Country, School Sport Australia and Under 20s Nationals - she's not bad at Australian rules football too.

Flood was rewarded for an outstanding season with the Bathurst Giants in 2019 by claiming the Central West AFL premiership trophy, as well as being named best on ground in her side's 7-8-50 to 4-1-25 win over the Bathurst Lady Bushrangers.

The Australian Junior Under 20s Basketball Championships will be held at the Australian Institute of Sport headquarters from February 5-9, with Flood and Matthews opening their account for NSW against Victoria B on Wednesday, February 5 at 10am.

That will be followed by a match against Tasmania that evening at 6pm.

NSW will have just the one game on Thursday - against South Australia - at 8pm, before a match-up against Western Australia and Queensland on Friday at 12pm and 8pm respectively.

The only game on Saturday for NSW is a crunch match against Victoria A at 1pm, before the finals begin on Sunday.

The men's equivalent has been split into two pools, with pool A featuring South Australia, ACT, Victoria, NBA Global Academy and Tasmania, while pool B will feature Simons' NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland.

And after winning the Australian Country Junior Cup with NSW Country in January, 2019, he'll be hoping to win gold again in 2020.