Laura Nicholls (basketball) Facts for Kids

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal family name is Nicholls and the second or maternal family name is González.

Quick facts for kids
Laura Nicholls

No. 4 – [[Casademont Zaragoza|Casademont Zaragoza]]

Power forward / center

Personal information

Born

26 February 1989 (age 35)
Santander, Cantabria, Spain

Nationality

Spanish

Listed height

6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)

Listed weight

198 lb (90 kg)

Career information

Pro career

2007–present

League

La Liga Feminina

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

Fenerbahce Oznur Kablo

2020-present

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

Olympic Games

Representing Spain
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 Spanish basketball player who plays for Casademont Zaragoza of La Liga Feminina. She is a regular member of the Spain women's national basketball team since 2008, having won eight medals in final tournaments.

Club career
- European cups statistics
National team
Personal life
See also

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	Rivas Ecopolis	12	13.9	4.2	2.4	0.6
2011–12 EuroLeague	Rivas Ecopolis	21	26.0	7.6	6.5	1.4
2012–13 EuroLeague	Rivas Ecopolis	11	26.6	5.2	5.0	1.5
2013–14 EuroLeague	Rivas Ecopolis	15	35.4	14.0	8.6	1.5
2014–15 EuroLeague	Kayseri Kaski	11	25.8	6.4	5.2	1.5
2015–16 EuroLeague	WBC Wisla Krakow	15	33.7	9.4	7.1	2.7
2016–17 EuroCup	Virtus Eirene Ragusa	8	29.3	7.9	7.8	1.1
2017–18 EuroLeague	Perfumerías Avenida	14	23.2	5.0	4.6	0.9
2017–18 EuroCup	Perfumerías Avenida	4	18.7	4.0	4.0	0.8
2018–19 EuroLeague	Nadezhda Orenburg	6	33.3	6.8	8.2	3.0
2018–19 EuroCup	Nadezhda Orenburg	6	33.8	5.5	7.5	2.7
2019–20 EuroLeague	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: