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Chien in 2007 | ||
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Women's basketball | ||
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Asian Games | ||
1990 Beijing | Team competition | |
2002 Busan | Team competition | |
2006 Doha | Team competition |
Chien Wei-chuan | |||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 錢 薇 娟 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 钱 薇 娟 | ||||||||
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Chien Wei-chuan (born 8 March 1971),also known as Rosa Chien,is a Taiwanese basketball coach and former player,widely considered the best female basketball player in Taiwanese history. She played on the Chinese Taipei women's national basketball team from 1988 to 2008,taking part in 10 FIBA Asia Championship for Women. She was previously the commissioner of the T1 League.
Chien became the youngest Taiwanese basketball player ever to make the national team at age 15. In the 1993 Summer Universiade,she set a record by scoring 84 points in a 117-35 blowout win against Hong Kong. In 1999,she tried out for the Orlando Miracle in the Women's National Basketball Association,but failed to make the cut. In 2002,she became the first Taiwanese player to play in the Women's Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA),where she played for 5 seasons. She finished her career in Taiwan's Women's Super Basketball League (WSBL). She was also the oldest player ever to represent Chinese Taipei when she played in the 2008 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women,and at the age of 37,still averaged 20 points per game. [1]
Chien has released a Mandopop album in 1996 and acted in the 2012 drama film Cha Cha for Twins . In 2012,she ran for a seat in New Taipei City at the Taiwanese legislative election,representing the Chinese Nationalist Party,but lost to Lin Shu-fen.
On August 6,2022,she was announced as the commissioner of the T1 League. [2]
Year | English title | Chinese title | Role | Notes |
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1998 | The Candidate | 為人民服務 | Basketball player | |
2012 | Cha Cha for Twins | 寶米恰恰 | Herself |
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