Ángela Salvadores
Besiktas | |
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Position | Guard |
League | Liga Femenina de Baloncesto |
Personal information | |
Born | Oviedo, Asturias, Spain | 10 March 1997
Nationality | Spanish |
Listed height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Career information | |
College | Duke (2015–2016) |
WNBA draft | 2019: 3rd round, 31st overall pick |
Selected by the Los Angeles Sparks | |
Playing career | 2013–present |
Career history | |
2013–2014 | Segle XXI |
2014–2015 | Rivas Ecópolis |
2016–2017 | Perfumerías Avenida |
2017–2018 | Sopron |
2018–present | Ensino |
Career highlights and awards | |
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Ángela Salvadores Álvarez (born 10 March 1997) is a Spanish basketball player for Galician team Durán Maquinaria Ensino. She played for Duke Blue Devils during the 2015–16 season.
Club career
Early years
Salvadores started playing basketball in León, firstly at CD Maristas and later at CB Aros before joining the Segle XXI, the basketball team promoted by the Spanish Basketball Federation.
With Segle XXI, she joined the Liga Femenina 2 team in 2013, averaging 15.4 points per game when she was only 16 years old. One season later, Salvadores signed for one year with Rivas Ecópolis and debuted in Liga Femenina. She averaged 14.6 points per game.
Duke Blue Devils
In the summer of 2015, Salvadores left Spain to play in the NCAA Division I with the Duke Blue Devils during the 2015–16 season.
Perfumerías Avenida
On 27 April 2016, Perfumerías Avenida announced an agreement with Salvadores for the next three seasons.[1] At the end of the first season, she decided to move to Hungarian team UNIQA Sopron[2]
Sopron Basket
In her first season in Hungary, Salvadores reached the Final Four of the 2017–18 EuroLeague Women, finishing as runner-up. She won the 2018 Hungarian League
EuroLeague statistics
Season | Team | GP | MPP | PPP | RPP | APP |
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2016-17 | ![]() |
10 | 9.9 | 2.4 | 1.0 | 1.4 |
2017-18 | ![]() |
18 | 21.1 | 7.1 | 2.6 | 2.1 |
Total | 28 | 17.1 | 5.4 | 2.0 | 1.8 |
International career
Salvadores played with all the youth categories of the Spanish women's national team.
On 6 July 2014, she scored 40 points against United States in the final game of the 2014 Under-17 World Championship[3] but finally Spain lost by 75–77.
References
- ^ "Ángela Salvadores vuelve a España y ficha por el Perfumerías Avenida" (in Spanish). Marca. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
- ^ "La difícil transición a la profesionalidad de Ángela Salvadores". La Voz de Galicia (in European Spanish). 11 May 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.
- ^ "SA Women Battle to FIBA U17 World Championship Gold". USA Basketball. 6 July 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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