Laura Nicholls (basketball)

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Laura Nicholls (basketball) - Wikipedia

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Laura Nicholls

Personal information

Born

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

Playing career

2007–present

Position

Power forward / center

Career history

2007–2009

2009–2010

2010–2014

2014–2015

2015–2016

2016–2017

2017–2018

2018–2019

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
	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Team
World Championship
	2014 Turkey
	2010 Czech Republic
	2018 Spain
EuroBasket
	2013 France
	2017 Czech Republic
	2019 Serbia/Latvia
	2009 Latvia
	2015 Hungary/Romania

Laura Nicholls González^[a] (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,^[1] 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.^[2] 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.^[3] She participated in two Olympic Games, two World Championships and in six European Championships:^[4]

2004 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
2005 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
2006 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
2007 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
4th 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth)
2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
5th 2008 Summer Olympics
2009 Eurobasket
2010 World Championship
9th 2011 Eurobasket
2013 Eurobasket
2014 World Championship
2015 Eurobasket
2016 Summer Olympics
2017 Eurobasket
2018 World Championship
2019 Eurobasket

Personal life

Nicholls is of Curaçaoan descent through her paternal grandfather.^[5]

Notes

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

References

^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Laura Nicholls". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
^ "Laura Nicholls, nueva guerrera para Perfumerías Avenida". www.feb.es. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
^ "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
^ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
^ Martínez, Daniel (20 August 2016). ""Hemos pedido a la Virgen de Valmayor la medalla para mi nieta"". El Diario Montañés (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 September 2019.

External links

Laura Nicholls at FIBA (archive)
Laura Nicholls international stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Laura Nicholls at Eurobasket.com
Laura Nicholls at Olympics.com
Laura Nicholls at Olympic.org (archived)
Laura Nicholls at Olympedia (archive)
Laura Nicholls González at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)

Spain squads

v t e Spain squad – 2010 FIBA World Championship – Bronze medal
4 Nicholls 5 Fernández 6 Lyttle 7 Lima 8 Pascua 9 Palau 10 Aguilar 11 Martínez 12 Montañana 13 Valdemoro 14 Cruz 15 Torrens Coach: Hernández

v t e Spain squad – EuroBasket Women 2013 – Gold medal
4 Nicholls 5 Lima 6 Domínguez 7 Torrens 8 Ouviña 9 Palau 10 Aguilar 11 Xargay 12 Gil 13 Valdemoro 14 Lyttle 15 Casas Coach: Mondelo

v t e Spain squad – 2014 FIBA World Championship – Silver medal
4 Nicholls 5 Romero 6 Domínguez 7 Torrens 8 Rodríguez 9 Palau 10 Xargay 11 Martínez 12 Gil 13 Pascua 14 Lyttle 15 Cruz Coach: Mondelo

v t e Spain squad – 2016 Summer Olympics – Silver medal
2 Romero 4 Nicholls 6 Domínguez 7 Torrens 9 Palau 10 Xargay 11 Rodríguez 13 Pascua 15 Cruz 19 Quevedo 24 Gil 45 Ndour Coach: Mondelo

v t e Spain squad – EuroBasket Women 2017 – Gold medal
4 Nicholls 6 Domínguez 7 Torrens 9 Palau 10 Xargay 11 Rodríguez 14 Lyttle 15 Cruz 20 Romero 22 Conde 24 Gil 28 Sánchez Coach: Mondelo

v t e Nadezhda Orenburg 2018–19 EuroCup Women champions
4 Nicholls 5 Fedorenkova 6 Burik 10 Shilova 12 Tikhonenko 13 Ygueravide 17 Wheeler 22 Novikova 32 Maiga 42 Jones 91 Medvedeva Coach Víctor Lapeña

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