Laura Antoja Rovira (born 11 September 1977) is a former Spanish basketball player; her last team was CB Avenida in Spanish League and Euroleague. [1] [2] She was born in Barcelona, and is a 1.66 m guard.
Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain, is a European country located in Southwestern Europe with some pockets of Spanish territory across the Strait of Gibraltar and the Atlantic Ocean. Its continental European territory is situated on the Iberian Peninsula. Its territory also includes two archipelagoes: the Canary Islands off the coast of Africa, and the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea. The African enclaves of Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera make Spain the only European country to have a physical border with an African country (Morocco). Several small islands in the Alboran Sea are also part of Spanish territory. The country's mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar; to the north and northeast by France, Andorra, and the Bay of Biscay; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean.
Women's basketball was developed in the late 1800s in tandem with its men's counterpart. It became popular, spreading from the east coast of the United States to the west coast, in large part via women's colleges. From 1895 until 1970, the term "women's basketball" was also used to refer to netball, which evolved in parallel with modern women's basketball. It is mostly popular in America.
Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto formerly C.B. Halcón Viajes, is a women's professional Basketball team based in Salamanca, Spain. The team currently plays in league Liga Femenina de Baloncesto.
Club Bàsquet Femení Universitari de Barcelona–FC Barcelona was a Spanish women's basketball team. Initially named CBF Universitari de Barcelona, belonging just to the Universitat de Barcelona, it later became part of the FC Barcelona family. They used to have four base teams: junior, cadet, infantil and infantil'91.
Club Deportivo Basket Zaragoza, a.k.a. Mann Filter Zaragoza for sponsorship reasons, was a Spanish women's basketball club from Zaragoza that played in the LFB. It was founded in 2000 from newly promoted CN Helios, which had previously replaced 1990 Copa de la Reina champion Banco Zaragozano.
Uni Girona Club de Basquet, also known as Spar CityLift Girona for sponsorship reasons, is a Spanish women's basketball club from Girona.
Erazem Lorbek is a Slovenian former professional basketball player. At 6 ft 10 3⁄4 in (2.10 m), he primarily played at the power forward position but was also capable of playing center. A three-time All-EuroLeague Team member, he won the EuroLeague title with FC Barcelona in 2010. He is the older brother of Domen Lorbek, also a professional basketball player.
Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria – Claret, S.A.D., also known as Herbalife Gran Canaria by sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Las Palmas, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. Their home arena is the Gran Canaria Arena.
Juan Carlos Navarro Feijoo, commonly known as either Juan Carlos Navarro or J.C. Navarro, and nicknamed La Bomba, is a Spanish former professional basketball player. At 1.92 m and 91 kg (201 lb), he played at the shooting guard position. On March 14, 2014, he was named a EuroLeague Basketball Legend.
Michalis "Mika" Kakiouzis is a Greek former basketball player who last played for Faros Keratsiniou in the Greek 2nd Division. At a height of 2.07 m, he was able to play at both the small forward and power forward positions.
Jordi Trias Feliu is a Spanish professional basketball player who plays for Bàsquet Girona of the LEB Plata league. Standing at 2.06 m, he plays at the power forward position.
Marta Fernández Farrés is a retired Spanish women's basketball player. A 1.80 m (5'11") guard, she won three bronze medals with the Spain women's national basketball team. At club level, she played in 2007 with the Los Angeles Sparks of the United States' WNBA., the Polish team Wisła Can-Pack Kraków and the Spanish teams Universitari Barcelona, Ros Casares Valencia and Perfumerías Avenida, where she retired in 2015. Marta Fernández is the sister of Spanish international and Real Madrid shooting guard Rudy Fernández.
Alba Torrens Salom is a Spanish female basketball player at the small forward position who plays for UMMC Ekaterinburg. Winner of four EuroLeague titles with three clubs and seven medals with the Spanish senior team, she is considered one of the best European players of the 2010s.
Marta Xargay Casademont is a Spanish professional basketball player. She plays for Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, USK Praha and Spain women's national basketball team. She has represented national team since EuroBasket Women 2011 competition. She won EuroLeague Women 2010–11 with Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto. She left Spain in 2015, joining both USK Praha of the Czech League in 2015 and the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA on 11 February 2015. In September 2018 she signed for Dynamo Kursk of the Russian Premier League.
Anna Cruz Lebrato is a Spanish professional basketball player with the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA. She plays for Dynamo Kursk, Minnesota Lynx and Spain's national basketball team. She won the 2015 WNBA, the 2017 EuroLeague and the 2017 EuroBasket.
Laia Palau Altés is a Spanish professional basketball player, currently playing for Spanish team Spar CityLift Girona. At 286, she is the most capped player in the Spain women's national basketball team. With 12 medals in final tournaments, she is also the top medallist.
Lucila Pascua Suárez is a Spanish basketball center.
FC Barcelona Bàsquet, commonly referred to as FC Barcelona and colloquially known as Barça, is a Spanish professional basketball club. It is a part of the FC Barcelona multi sports club, and was founded on 24 August 1926, which makes it the oldest club in the Liga ACB. The club competes domestically in the Liga ACB and in the EuroLeague. Two times European champions, Barça completed a triple crown in 2003 by winning the season's league, cup and EuroLeague.
Marina Ferragut Castillo is a Spanish former basketball player who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics, achieving a total of 253 caps for the national team. She played in the WNBA at the New York Liberty during the 2000 season. She played on 253 occasions with the Spanish National team. She retired in 2011.
Laura Nicholls González is a Spanish basketball player who plays for Nadezhda Orenburg of the Russian Women's Basketball Premier League. She is a regular member of the Spain women's national basketball team since 2008, having won eight medals in final tournaments.
Silvia Domínguez Fernández is a Spanish basketball player for Perfumerías Avenida and the Spanish national team. She won three EuroLeague Women and multiple medals for Spain.
Leonor Rodríguez Manso is a Spanish international basketball player for WBC Wisła Kraków and the Spanish national team.
Laura Gil is a Spanish basketball player for CB Avenida and the Spanish national team. At club level, she has one the 2011 EuroLeague and three Spanish Leagues. As a member of the Spain squad, she has won a medal in all the tournaments she has ever participated since 2007 and up to 2019: nine medals at youth level and seven medals at senior level. The last medal she won was gold in the EuroBasket Women 2019.
Víctor Lapeña is a Spanish basketball coach, currently acting as head coach for Fenerbahçe S.K. of the Turkish Women's Basketball League, and who also acted as assistant coach to Lucas Mondelo at the Spanish women's national team, and as head coach for the Spanish women's youth national teams.
Andrea Vilaró is a Spanish basketball player. She plays as a small forward in the Spanish league for CB Avenida and the Spanish national team.
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