Belinda Snell
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Position | Guard | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
League | WNBA | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Mirboo North, Victoria, Australia | January 10, 1981||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Australian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listed weight | 165 lb (75 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Playing career | 2005–present | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1× WNBA champion (2007) 1× EuroLeague champion (2011) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Belinda Snell (born 10 January 1981 in Mirboo North, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian women's basketball player who plays for Australia and the WNBA in the United States.
She attended the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), and was a member of the AIS team which won the 1998-1999 WNBL championship. This team also included fellow WNBA players Lauren Jackson, Penny Taylor, Suzy Batkovic and Kristen Veal.
She was also a member of Australia women's national basketball team, "The Opals", that won silver medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics, and a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
She was signed as a free agent by the Phoenix Mercury in 2005.
In June 2009, she joined by Ros Casares, current champion of the Spanish Women's League.[1]
In June 2010, she joined another Spanish team, the great rival of Ros Casares; Perfumerías Avenidas de Salamanca.[2]
In February 2011, she signed with the 2010 WNBA Champion Seattle Storm for the 2011 season along with fellow Australian, Erin Phillips.
In September 2011, after years playing over in Europe, Belinda re-signed with the Sydney Uni Flames for the start of the 2011-2012 WNBL season.
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- Phoenix Mercury players
- Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia
- Basketball players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Olympic basketball players of Australia
- Olympic silver medalists for Australia
- Australian women's basketball players
- Australian Institute of Sport (WNBL) players
- Small forwards
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Olympic medalists in basketball
- Australian Olympic medalist stubs
- Australian basketball biography stubs