Damiris Dantas

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Damiris Dantas do Amaral

Personal information

Born

17 November 1992
São Paulo, Brazil

Medals

Women's Basketball
Competitor for Brazil
South American Championship
Gold	2013 Mendoza	Team Competition
Americas Championship
Gold	2011 Valdivia	Team Competition
World Championship U-19
Bronze	2011 Chile	Team Competition
Pan American Games
Bronze	2011 Guadalajara	Team Competition

Damiris Dantas do Amaral (born 17 November 1992 in São Paulo, SP) is a Brazilian female basketball player.^[1] Together with the Brazilian team she won the bronze medal at the Under-19 World Championship in 2011, Chile. Dantas was also named MVP at that tournament.^[2] She was also champion of the 2011 FIBA Americas Championship for Women with the Brazil women's national basketball team.^[3]

Dantas was drafted by the Minnesota Lynx in the first round of the 2012 WNBA Draft. Dantas was not expected to play in the WNBA until after the 2012 Olympic Games.^[4]

References

↑ Confederação Brasileira de Basketball - player profile. Retrieved 24 October 2011
↑ FIBA U19W - Dantas named MVP, Headlines All-Tournament Team. Retrieved 24 October 2011
↑ ¡Brasil Campeón FIBA Américas 2011 femenino!
↑ 2012 WNBA Draft First Round

v t e 2012 WNBA Draft

First round	Nneka Ogwumike Shekinna Stricklen Devereaux Peters Glory Johnson Shenise Johnson Samantha Prahalis Kelley Cain Natalie Novosel Astan Dabo LaSondra Barrett Sasha Goodlett Damiris Dantas

Second round	Farhiya Abdi Tiffany Hayes Khadijah Rushdan Tyra White Riquna Williams Julie Wojta Kayla Standish Nika Barič Chay Shegog Keisha Hampton Shey Peddy C'eria Ricketts

Third round	Vicki Baugh Anjale Barrett Sydney Carter April Sykes Lynetta Kizer Christine Flores Jacki Gemelos Isabelle Yacoubou Amanda Johnson Courtney Hurt Briana Gilbreath Katelan Redmon

v t e Brazil women's squad – 2012 Summer Olympics – 9th place

4 Pinto 5 Costa 6 Ferreira 7 Rodrigues 8 ~~Marques~~ 9 Nascimento 10 Gustavo 11 dos Santos 12 Dantas 13 Colhado 14 de Souza 15 Carcavalli Coach: Cicchetto

Persondata
Name	Dantas Do Amaral, Damiris
Alternative names
Short description	Basketball player
Date of birth	17 November 1992
Place of birth	São Paulo, Brazil
Date of death
Place of death

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