Blanca Millán Explained

Blanca Millán
Position:Guard
Height Ft:6
Height In:1
League:Liga Femenina de Baloncesto
Team:CB Islas Canarias
Birth Date:18 May 1998
Birth Place:Santiago de Compostela, Spain
College:Maine (2016–2021)
Highlights:
  • 2x AEC Player of the Year (2019, 2021)
  • 2x AEC Defensive Player of the Year (2019, 2021)
  • 3x First-team All-AEC (2018, 2019, 2021)
  • 3x AEC All-Defensive Team (2018, 2019, 2021)
  • AEC All-Freshman Team (2017)

Blanca Millán (born 18 May 1998) is a Spanish basketball player with CB Islas Canarias of the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto.[1] While playing for the Maine Black Bears women's basketball team from 2016 to 2021, Millan became one of the most accomplished players in team and conference history. She is a two-time America East Player of the Year and America East Defensive Player of the Year (2019, 2021). She is the only woman in America East history to win AE Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year each twice.[2]

On 18 April 2021, she signed a training camp contract with the Washington Mystics of the WNBA before being waived on 5 May.[3]

Career statistics

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game FG% Field goal percentage 3P% 3-point field goal percentage
 FT% Free throw percentage RPG Rebounds per game APG Assists per game SPG Steals per game BPG Blocks per game
 TO Turnovers per game PPG Points per game Bold Career high * Led Division I

College

|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2016–17| style="text-align:left;" | Maine|34||34||27.2||43.5||30.8||65.0||2.9||1.7||1.8||0.3||1.3||8.6 |-| style="text-align:left;" | 2017–18| style="text-align:left;" | Maine|33||33||34.7||44.4||35.4||67.1||5.1||1.6||3.0||0.7||2.0||17.5|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2018–19| style="text-align:left;" | Maine|33||33||34.2||41.9||27.2||71.1||4.4||2.1||2.8||1.4||2.2||style="background:#D3D3D3"|17.2°|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2019–20| style="text-align:left;" | Maine|6||6||30.0||38.9||18.2||84.6||6.3||1.2||2.3||0.3||2.7||18.2|-| style="text-align:left;" | 2020–21| style="text-align:left;" | Maine|20||20||35.6||47.9||35.3||78.0||7.5||2.3||2.9||0.7||1.9||style="background:#D3D3D3"|21.4°|-| style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career|126||126||32.5||43.9||31.0||72.9||4.8||1.8||2.6||0.8||1.9||15.7|- class="sortbottom"|style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.[4]

Notes and References

  1. News: Blanca Millán: «El espíritu del Obra es siempre seguir trabajando» . La Voz de Galicia . 22 February 2022 . es.
  2. Web site: Blanca Millan - Women's Basketball . University of Maine Athletics . en.
  3. News: Lazarczyk . Travis . Women’s Basketball: Former University of Maine star Blanca Millan gets her WNBA shot . Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel . 19 April 2021.
  4. Web site: Blanca Millán College Stats. Sports-Reference. April 11, 2024.