Laura Gil

Laura Gil (born 24 April 1992) 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.

Laura Gil
No. 15 – Perfumerías Avenida
PositionPower forward
LeagueLFB
Personal information
Born (1992-04-24) 24 April 1992
Murcia, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Listed height6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight172 lb (78 kg)
Career information
Playing career2008–present
Career history
2008–2010Segle XXI (LF2)
2010–2011Perfumerías Avenida
2011–2012Hondarribia-Irún
2012–2013CB Ciudad de Burgos
2013–2014Rivas Ecópolis
2014–2016Cadí La Seu
2016–presentPerfumerías Avenida
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
World Cup
2014 Turkey
2018 Spain
EuroBasket
2013 France
2017 Czech Republic
2019 Serbia/Latvia
2015 Hungary/Romania

Club career

Gil played as a junior in the Segle XXI project from 2008–2010, where young talents are developed from youth teams to the Spanish second tier. In 2010 she signed for one of the top teams in the league Perfumerías Avenida , winning the 2011 EuroLeague and the Spanish League. She spent the next five years in four different clubs, winning the 2014 league, going back to former club CB Avenida in 2016, where she won the double league-cup in 2017 and 2018.

EuroLeague and EuroCup statistics
Euroleague winner
Season Team GP MPP PPP RPP APP
2010–11 EuroLeague Halcón Avenida 6 3.0 0.7 0.5
2013–14 EuroLeague Rivas Ecópolis 8 26.5 6.4 5.2 0.6
2016–17 EuroLeague Perfumerías Avenida 17 19.7 4.5 3.2 0.7
2017–18 EuroLeague Perfumerías Avenida[1] 8 20.8 3.6 3.3 0.8
2017–18 EuroCup Perfumerías Avenida 4 21.2 5.0 5.5 0.8
2018–19 EuroLeague Perfumerías Avenida 14 24.0 5.2 5.1 1.4
2018–19 EuroCup Perfumerías Avenida 2 27.4 8.5 6.0 0.0
2019–20 EuroCup Perfumerías Avenida

National team

Gil started playing with Spain's youth teams at 15, winning a total of nine medals from 2007 to 2012. She made her debut with the senior team in 2013, when she was 21 years old. Up to 2017, she had 82 caps with 3.7 PPG,[2] participating in the Rio 2016 Olympics, two World Championships and four EuroBaskets:[3]

References
  1. "Laura GIL COLLADO at the EuroLeague Women 2018 – FIBA.basketball". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  2. "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  3. "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
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