Angela Salvadores has been awarded the 2014 FIBA Young Women’s Player of the Year. Salavadores is the youngest player at age 17 to receive the award.
“I like being on such a list next to the best young players in Europe and winning it is incredible,” said a proud Salvadores, who almost single-handedly dethroned USA for the first time in history at the FIBA U17 World Championship for Women.
During the U17 World Championships Salvadores averaged 19.9 points a game and in the final game scored 40 points.
With the marks of top Spanish National teams and figures such as Rafael Nadal who just won the Wimbledon after a 44 year drought for Spanish Players and the Spanish Soccer team who also won the Euro2008 after not winning in the 40s. The national teams for Spain both women and men are hoping to follow in those footsteps in Pekin during the Olympic Summer Basketball Games!