THERE are many familiar football family names at this year's NAB AFL Draft Camp – Motlop, Varcoe, McKernan, Cordy and Roughead to name a few.

Another elite sporting name also stands out, although not in Australian football.

So how does Zach Sengstock, the son of Australian basketball great Larry Sengstock, find himself among elite football stock, rather than playing the round ball game?

"I'm not really tall enough for basketball; I'd be a little point guard and I'm not really good enough anyway," Sengstock said with a laugh at the NAB AFL Draft Camp.

"Dad's supportive of all of this, so is Mum, so he doesn't mind me playing [football] at all.

"It's been a while ago since he played [basketball] but he still gets spotted every now and then in the street."

Nineteen-year-old Sengstock, a 191cm marking defender from the Sandringham Drarons, says he used to play basketball when he was younger, before football became his preferred option.

"I played until I was about 15," he said.

"I was on the lower-end of a couple of try outs [with elite junior sides] and I used to go to matches."

Larry Sengstock played 456 National Basketball League matches with St Kilda Saints, Brisbane Bullets, Gold Coast Cougars/Rollers and the North Melbourne Giants. He was also a four-time Olympian in 1980, 1984, 1988 and 1992.