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Sandrine Gruda was voted the top female player award for FIBA for the first time ever. Gruda, the 6'3 power forward and center from France helped lead the French to the Gold Medal in the Eurobasket 2009 Championships. In Lativa, ...

Alba Torrens was named 2009 Young Women's Player of the Year for FIBA. Torrens who participated on the Spanish Womens National Team helped her team get the Bronze medal during the Eurobasket Womens 2009 Championship in Latvia. The 6'5 small ...

Its not unusual these days to see more and more American basketball players get naturalization in the other countries to participate in international championship. The biggest news from 2008 was Becky Hammon's participation with Russias Womens National Team. I think ...

Eight players have been selected on the USA Womens National Team list for the 2009-12 FIBA Championships, leading to the 2012 London Olympics.  Sue Bird (Seattle Storm)Tamika Catchings (Indiana Fever)Diana Taurasi (Phoenix Mercury)Seimone Augustus (Minnesota Lynx)Sylvia Fowles (Chicago Sky)Kara Lawson (Sacramento ...

Maria Stepanova has won the FIBA Player of the Year Award three out of four times that the award has existed. Stepanova helped lead her national team Russia to a bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Currently ...

FIBA Europe announced today that Gintare Petronyte is the young player of the year 2008. Petronyte is a young player from Lithuania who stands at 1.95 height and averaged almost 21pts, 11 rebounds and 1.3 blocked shots per game in ...

FIBA announced and confirmed the dates and venues for the European Championships for youth women this summer. Below is the schedule:  U20 European Championship Women, Division A, 9-19 July, Gdansk, Poland U20 European Championship Women, Division B, 11-19 July, ...

The 2009 EuroBasket Women Basketball Tournament will be held in Latvia June 7th-20th 2009. The official draw will be held on October 15, 2008.  Preliminary Round venues: Liepaja, Valmiera Qualifying and Final Round venue: Riga Draw Seedings: Seed     ...

The FIBA World Ranking For Women after the 2008 Olympic Basketball Tournament with the USA winning another Gold Medal and Australia with the Silver. Many teams moved up in ranking due to their performance and participation in the Olympics.Highlighted in ...

Nine Teams will be representing their country in the 2009 Eurobasket Womens Championship in Latvia. The following teams:HungaryIsraelLithuaniaSerbia TurkeyPolandFranceSlovakiaGreece  With Division A Qualfying Round complete the nine teams who won the right to play in the EuroBasket Women 2009 ...