Laura Nicholls (basketball)

Laura Nicholls
No. 4 – Perfumerías Avenida
Position Power forward / Center
League Spanish League
Personal information
Born (1989-02-26) February 26, 1989
Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Listed height 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Career information
Playing career 2007–present
Career history
2007–2009 Celta Vigo
2009–2010 Hondarribia-Irún
2010–2014 Rivas Ecópolis
2014–2015 Kayseri Kaski
2015-2016 WBC Wisła Kraków
2016-2017 Virtus Eirene Ragusa
2017-present CB Avenida
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
World Championship
2014 Turkey
2010 Czech Republic
2018 Spain
EuroBasket
2013 France
2017 Czech Republic
2009 Latvia
2015 Hungary/Romania

Laura Nicholls González (born 26 February 1989) is a Spanish basketball player who plays for the Pefumerías Avenida from Salamanca. She is a regular member of the Spain women's national basketball team since 2008,[1] having won seven medals in final tournaments.

Club career

She started playing as a child in Cantabria before moving to Catalonia as a junior in 2004 to play at Segle XXI, a club which works in lower division developing young prospects. Her first club in the top tier of the Spanish League was Celta Vigourbán in 2007, at 18 years of age. For good performance in the season she received her first call-up with the Spanish senior team for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. The following year she transferred to Hondarribia-Irún for one just season before signing with Rivas Ecópoolis, where she played from 2010-11 to 2013-14, winning one Spanish League in 2014 and two Spanish Cups in 2011 and 2013, and playing for four seasons in the EuroLeague Women, reaching the final in the 2011-12 EuroLeague edition.

She played the next three seasons in three different countries: Kayseri Kaski S.K. from Turkey, Wisła Kraków from Poland (winning the Polish League) and Virtus Eirene Ragusa from Italy. She went back to Spain to play for CB Perfumerías Avenida in 2017.[2]

European cups stats

Season Team GP MPP PPP RPP APP
2010-11 EuroLeague Spain Rivas Ecopolis 12 13.9 4.2 2.4 0.6
2011-12 EuroLeague Spain Rivas Ecopolis 21 26.0 7.6 6.5 1.4
2012-13 EuroLeague Spain Rivas Ecopolis 11 26.6 5.2 5.0 1.5
2013-14 EuroLeague Spain Rivas Ecopolis 15 35.4 14.0 8.6 1.5
2014-15 EuroLeague Turkey Kayseri Kaski 11 25.8 6.4 5.2 1.5
2015-16 EuroLeague Poland WBC Wisla Krakow 15 33.7 9.4 7.1 2.7
2016-17 EuroCup Italy Virtus Eirene Ragusa 8 29.3 7.9 7.8 1.1
2017-18 EuroLeague Spain Perfumerías Avenida 14 23.2 5.0 4.6 0.9
2017-18 EuroCup Spain Perfumerías Avenida 4 18.7 4.0 4.0 0.8

National team

In the Spanish youth teams since she was 15, she won medals in tournaments of all age groups (U-16, U-18, U-20).

She made her debut with the Spanish senior team at 19, and has been in all tournaments that the team has played. She is one of the most capped players with a total of 157 caps and 4.9 PPG.[3] She participated in two Olympic Games, two World Championships and in five European Championships:[4]

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Laura Nicholls". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  2. ↑ "Laura Nicholls, nueva guerrera para Perfumerías Avenida". www.feb.es. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  3. ↑ "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es. Retrieved 2017-10-02.
  4. ↑ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 2017-10-02.


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