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Laura Nicholls
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Power forward / center
Personal information
Born (1989-02-26) 26 February 1989 (age 35)
Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Listed height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Listed weight 198 lb (90 kg)
Career information
Pro 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
2017–2018 CB Avenida
2018–2019 Nadezhda Orenburg
2019–2020 Fenerbahçe Öznur Kablo
2020–2024 Casademont Zaragoza
Career highlights and awards
  • EuroCup champion (2019)
  • 2x Spanish League champion (2014, 2018)
  • 3× Spanish Cup Champion (2011, 2013, 2018)
  • Turkish Women's Basketball Cup champion (2020)
  • Polish League Champion (2016)
Medals
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
Silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
World Championship
Silver 2014 Turkey
Bronze 2010 Czech Republic
Bronze 2018 Spain
EuroBasket
Gold 2013 France
Gold 2017 Czech Republic
Gold 2019 Serbia/Latvia
Bronze 2009 Latvia
Bronze 2015 Hungary/Romania

Laura Nicholls González (born 26 February 1989) is a former Spanish basketball player. She was a regular member of the Spain women's national basketball team since 2008, having won eight 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. She signed for Russian team Nadezhda Orenburg for the 2018-19 season, winning the 2018-19 EuroCup Women. In 2019, she signed for Turkish team Fenerbahçe Öznur Kablo. In 2020, she signed with Casademont Zaragoza of La Liga Feminina.

European cups statistics

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
2018–19 EuroLeague Russia Nadezhda Orenburg 6 33.3 6.8 8.2 3.0
2018–19 EuroCup Russia Nadezhda Orenburg 6 33.8 5.5 7.5 2.7
2019–20 EuroLeague Turkey Fenerbahçe Öznur Kablo

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. She participated in two Olympic Games, two World Championships and in six European Championships:

  • Gold medal icon.svg 2004 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
  • Gold medal icon.svg 2005 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
  • Gold medal icon.svg 2006 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
  • Silver medal icon.svg 2007 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
  • 4th 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth)
  • Silver medal icon.svg 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
  • 5th 2008 Summer Olympics
  • Bronze medal europe.svg 2009 Eurobasket
  • Bronze medal world centered-2.svg 2010 World Championship
  • 9th 2011 Eurobasket
  • Gold medal europe.svg 2013 Eurobasket
  • Silver medal world centered-2.svg 2014 World Championship
  • Bronze medal europe.svg 2015 Eurobasket
  • Silver medal olympic.svg 2016 Summer Olympics
  • Gold medal europe.svg 2017 Eurobasket
  • Bronze medal world centered-2.svg 2018 World Championship
  • Gold medal europe.svg 2019 Eurobasket

Personal life

Nicholls is of Curaçaoan descent through her paternal grandfather.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Laura Nicholls para niños

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