Astou Ndour

Astou Ndour
No. 45 – Chicago Sky
Position Center
League WNBA
Personal information
Born (1994-08-22) August 22, 1994
Dakar, Senegal
Nationality Spanish
Listed height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Career information
WNBA draft 2014 / Round: 2 / Pick: 16th overall
Selected by the San Antonio Stars
Playing career 2011–present
Career history
2011–2014 Gran Canaria
2014 San Antonio Stars
2014–2015 Fenerbahçe
2015–2016 Perfumerías Avenida
2016 San Antonio Stars
2016–2018 Passalacqua Ragusa
2018–present Chicago Sky
Career highlights and awards
Stats at WNBA.com
Medals
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
World Championship
2018 Spain
EuroBasket
2015 Hungary/Romania

Astou Ndour Barro (born August 22, 1994) is a Spanish-Senegalese[1] professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky of the WNBA.[2]

Early life

Ndour was born in Dakar, Senegal on August 8, 1994. Both of her parents had been basketball players. She was a stand-out basketball player at her school in Dakar. Ndour moved to Las Palmas, Canary Islands where she was adopted by the ex-coach Domingo Díaz and his wife, when she was 14. She continued to play basketball for her school's team in Las Palmas.[3][4]

Career

Ndour joined the youth system of Gran Canaria in 2009. She also played in the Junior Spanish Championship that year. Ndour became a naturalized Spanish citizen in 2011. She was a part of the Spanish youth team that won the silver medal at the 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women where she nearly averaged a double-double.[3][5] As a member of the Spanish Youth National Team, Ndour's teams always won a medal in each tournament she played, including the bronze medal at the Under-18 European Championship for Women.[5]

Ndour started to play with the Spain women's national basketball team on 2014 when she was 20 years old, although she couldn't play the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women, since Spain opted to take Sancho Lyttle, and FIBA Regulations establish that only one naturalized player per roster can participate in national teams competitions.

In 2015, she was part of the Spanish roster that won the Bronze medal at the EuroBasket Women 2015 in Hungary and Romania. Ndour was acquired from the San Antonio Stars by the Chicago Sky in exchange for Clarissa Dos Santos in February 2017.[2] In May 2017, Ndour was suspended by the Sky after not reporting to the team.[6]

EuroLeague and EuroCup stats

Season Team GP MPP PPP RPP APP
2010-11 EuroCup Spain CB Islas Canarias 5 5.0 1.8 2.2 0.0
2011-12 EuroCup Spain CB Islas Canarias 10 34.4 16.1 10.9 0.2
2014-15 EuroLeague Turkey Fenerbahçe 14 18.4 9.6 5.7 0.2
2015-16 EuroLeague Spain Perfumerías Avenida 14 29.1 11.3 8.1 0.5
2016-17 EuroCup Italy Virtus Eirene Ragusa 10 30.1 14.7 8.0 0.6
2017-18 EuroCup Italy Virtus Eirene Ragusa 9 25.6 14.6 6.1 0.6

    National team

    Ndour started playing with Spain's youth teams at 16, winning a total of four medals from 2011 to 2014. She made her debut with the senior team in 2014, when she was 20 years old.[7] [8] With the senior team she won the bronze medal in the 2015 Eurobasket and the silver medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

    References

    1. ↑ Astou Barro Ndour ya tiene la nacionalidad Española
    2. 1 2 "San Antonio Stars acquire center Clarissa Dos Santos from the Chicago Sky in exchange for center Astou Ndour". Hoopfeed. 27 February 2017. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
    3. 1 2 Cristóvão, Luís (13 April 2014). "WNBA draft prospect profile: What would Spain's Astou Ndour offer a WNBA team?". Swish Appeal. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
    4. ↑ Sáez-Bravo, Lucas (7 August 2016). "La hora de Astou: "Yo soy yo"". El Mundo. Retrieved 11 April 2017.
    5. 1 2 "Ndour: From Senegal To Spanish Stardom". FIBA. 10 July 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
    6. ↑ WNBA Transactions
    7. ↑ "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-08-27.
    8. ↑ http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/q/Astou%20NDOUR/pid/88675/_//players.html


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