Star guard Kristen Veal is considering quitting the Canberra Capitals next season but insists she is 100 per cent committed to making the Australian Olympic team.

Veal, 22, has been questioning her basketball future since last May when she walked out on a contract with the Phoenix Mercury in the United States for personal reasons. After some indecision, she returned to play with the Capitals this summer in the Women's National Basketball League.

Although she is contracted to the Capitals for one more season, the talented point guard hasn't ruled out seeking a release.

Veal said there was nothing sinister about her indecision, only that she was thinking about life after basketball. She wants a career in the fire department.

"If I didn't play for the Caps [next season] I wouldn't play for anyone else," Veal said.

"That would be completely unethical.

"I'm just thinking about a change of lifestyle, wanting to venture out and do other things and all that kind of stuff."

The Capitals missed the grand final this season for the first time in five years and Veal admitted it had left a "sour taste" in her mouth. Team-mate Lauren Jackson has vowed she won't leave Canberra until she wins another championship, but Veal can't make the same promise at this stage.

"It hurts not to win but, on the other hand, I don't think we deserved to win. I don't think we were the best team in the league this year.

"Maybe in a couple of months' time I'll turn around and go 'that really hurt and I want to get another grand final'. Or I'll go 'that was last season - what happened, happened' and on to different things. I'll wait till the Olympics and then go from there. I don't really want to think too much further [ahead] than that at the moment."

Veal hasn't touched a basketball since the Caps were knocked out of the WNBL finals on February 6. She is living in Sydney and will play in the second-tier Australian Basketball Association starting next weekend.

Despite her seemingly relaxed approach, veal says she is ready to give the Olympic tryouts her "best shot".

"I know I'm working hard and if people perceive me as lazy or complacent, then that's their issue. If anything, I'm probably trying a bit too hard," Veal said.

"That was my biggest thing growing up, I would never put a ball down for fear of losing it [form]. Now, when I come back, I want to pick up that ball and go as hard as I can."

Veal will join the Australian squad in Canberra on March 28 for the first Olympic camp with the Opals.

Kristi Harrower [WNBA, Minnesota Lynx] is favourite to be named starting point guard, leaving Veal to battle with Alicia Poto [France] and Jodie Datson [Townsville] for the back-up position in the final 12-player squad.

"This will be my best shot of ever making the Olympics," Veal said.

"I was in the squad in 2000 but that was a bit far-fetched. This Olympics I've got a reasonably good chance."