Ángela Salvadores

Ángela Salvadores
Besiktas
Position	Guard
League	Liga Femenina de Baloncesto
Personal information
Born	10 March 1997 (age 27); Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
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
	Hungarian League champion (2018); Spanish league champion (2017); Spanish cup champion (2017); FIBA Europe Young Women's Player of the Year Award (2014); European U-16 Championship MVP (2013); World U-17 Championship MVP (2014); European U-18 Championship MVP (2015);
	Stats at Basketball Reference
European Under-20 Championship
European Under-18 Championship
World Under-17 Championship
European Under-16 Championship

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
2016-17	CB Avenida	10	9.9	2.4	1.0	1.4
2017-18	Sopron Basket	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. Archived from the original on 24 July 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2016.

External links

[1] "Ángela Salvadores vuelve a España y ficha por el Perfumerías Avenida" (in Spanish). Marca. 27 April 2016. Retrieved 27 April 2016.

[2] "La difícil transición a la profesionalidad de Ángela Salvadores". La Voz de Galicia (in European Spanish). 11 May 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.

[3] "SA Women Battle to FIBA U17 World Championship Gold". USA Basketball. 6 July 2014. Archived from the original on 24 July 2014. Retrieved 27 April 2016.

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