The first Lithuanian to make an Australian basketball team
Vytautas Šutas was born on 5 April 1925 in Dusetos. He grew to over six foot, giving him an advantage in basketball, a sport he excelled in. He began his basketball career in Lithuania. At the end of WWII, with his parents and brother the family left for Germany. While in Displaced Persons Camps, he began to study medicine. His free time was spent in the English zone playing with the Lithuanian basketball team. The family all came to Australia, there first stop was the Bathurst migrant camp. Here Vytas organised a basketball team. He later moved to Lithgow to work as a railway worker. Shortly after he came to Lithgow Vytas, a keen sportsman, was camped at Wallerawang, where he was interviewed by the "Mercury." During the interview he expressed the desire to lead a Balt basketball team, in social and competition matches against Lithgow teams and a "Mercury" representative immediately arranged for his introduction. He began...