PERTH, Western Australia - Former Nicholls State University men's basketball standout Anatoly Bose will return to his home nation this month with his sights set on making the Australian Men's National Team.

Bose will head to Perth for a five-day camp from June 19-23 as part of a 16-player contingent that will be whittled down to a 12-man squad that will compete against the Chinese Men's National Team in a two-game series dubbed The YouYi Games. 

The YouYi (Chinese for "Friendship") Games will pit Australia, currently ranked ninth in the world in the FIBA rankings, against China, currently ranked tenth, in Perth on June 24 and in Singapore on June 26.

After their two-game series with China, Australia will prepare for a a best-of-three Olympic qualifying series against Oceania rival New Zealand in a September series that will award a berth in the 2012 London Olympics to the winner.

It marks the second consecutive season that Bose will work out with the Boomers (as they are called in Australia).  Bose, a native of Sydney, worked out with the Boomers during June of 2010 in hopes of earning a spot on the Australian Men's National Team's 2010 FIBA World Championship squad.