Ángela Salvadores Explained

Ángela Salvadores
Position:Guard
Height M:1.78
League:Liga Femenina de Baloncesto
Team:Besiktas
Birth Date:10 March 1997
Birth Place:Oviedo, Asturias, Spain
Nationality:Spanish
College:Duke (2015–2016)
Draft Year:2019
Draft Round:3
Draft Pick:31
Draft Team:Los Angeles Sparks
Draft League:WNBA
Career Start:2013
Years1:2013–2014
Team1:Segle XXI
Years2:2014–2015
Team2:Rivas Ecópolis
Years3:2016–2017
Team3:Perfumerías Avenida
Years4:2017–2018
Team4:Sopron
Years5:2018–present
Team5:Ensino
Highlights:

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

SeasonTeamGPMPPPPPRPPAPP
2016-17 CB Avenida109.92.41.01.4
2017-18 Sopron Basket1821.17.12.62.1
Total2817.15.42.01.8

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.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ángela Salvadores vuelve a España y ficha por el Perfumerías Avenida. Marca. es. 27 April 2016. 27 April 2016.
  2. News: La difícil transición a la profesionalidad de Ángela Salvadores. 11 May 2017. La Voz de Galicia. 29 September 2017. es-ES.
  3. Web site: SA Women Battle to FIBA U17 World Championship Gold. https://web.archive.org/web/20140724030719/http://www.usab.com/news-events/news/2014/07/usa-women-battle-to-fiba-u17-world-championship-gold.aspx. dead. 24 July 2014. USA Basketball. 6 July 2014. 27 April 2016.