Cristina Ouviña

Cristina Ouviña

Cristina playing in Zaragoza
No. 5 – TS Wisła Can-Pack Kraków[1]
League Polish Women's Basketball League
Personal information
Born September 18, 1990
Zaragoza, Aragón,  Spain
Nationality  Spain
Listed height 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Ouviña Stats at NBA.com

Cristina Ouviña Modrego (born September 18, 1990) is a Spanish basketball player.[2] Currently playing for the TS Wisła Can-Pack Kraków of Poland. She is point guard and won the EuroBasket in France 2013.[3]

Biography

As basketball player

She started with 8 years in Basket Lupus, and the following year joined the ranks of Helios Swimming Center. She is a player that stands out for its speed, his desire to learn and work, and with much margin of improvement. Has been international with the Spanish Under-16 in August 2006 and won the gold medal in the European Championship of this category, held in Košice (Slovakia). She was also decisive in most of the matches of the tournament and playing with a great level in the final against the Czech Republic (80-78) with 19 points. In 2013, June 30, she was proclaimed the Eurobasket champion, against France, with the Spanish Selection (70-69).

Career

Season 06/07

She became part of the basketball team Mann Filter Zaragoza,[4] wearing the number 14 on his jersey, she averaged 2.5 points per game in 8.9 minutes. She was candidate to participate in the Spanish Championship, however, the crossed ligament and meniscus in his right leg was broken. She was operated by Dr. Jose Luis Avila in the Chiron Clinic Zaragoza.

Season 07/08

After recovering from his knee injury, she continued improving and played 9.3 minutes, which scored 2.9 points, caught 1,2 rebounds and distributed 0.4 assists. That summer was involved with the Spanish team in the Under-18 European Tournament in Nitra (Slovakia, finishing the fifth playing 24.7 minutes and averaging 9.2 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists).

Season 08/09

She began to have more importance in her team, and saw an increased in her time: played 15.9 minutes in getting 4.6 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.4 assists. This summer has been one of the best of his career, she played the European Under-20 Championship in Gdynia (Poland), where she won the silver medal, after losing the final against France ( 52-74 ), was selected the top scorer in the final with 17 points. She played 23.4 minutes, scoring 6.9 points, grabbing 2.6 rebounds and distributing 2.1 assists to her teammates . And the best has not come yet, in the U-19 World Championship in Thailand, in 2009, she won the silver medal after losing against the United States by 87-71. This silver medal also meant that, for the first time, a Spanish women's team took the podium at a world championship . If this were not enough, Ouviña was chosen as the best point-guard in the ideal team, scoring 9 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.1 assists in 23.4 minutes. In this All-World Championship team found her selection partner: Marta Xargay.[5]

Season 09/10

Cristina Ouviña playing against her idol Laia Palau.

During the preseason she won the Aragon championship, her team played beat the Stadium Casablanca in the final, where she had 15 points. In the regular season she averaged 27.3 minutes with 7.5 points, 3.2 rebounds 2.8 steals and 3.2 assists. As Mann Filter finished the regular season fourth, Cristina Ouviña played the Play- Offs for the league title, in which the traditional champion Ros Casares Valencia was the opponent . Playing 28 minutes and getting 5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals in the two games were not enough to pass the first round . This year, she played her last championship with the under age selections, the European U-20 in Latvia, where she won another silver medal, again being beat by Russia due to a single point . She was the principal point guard of the national team, Cristina played 28.9 minutes, which used to score 11.2 points, 3.8 assists and 5 rebounds per game. His highlight game of the tournament was the final, which pulled the team throughout the game by shooting 24 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 steals . With just a few seconds, the coach said her to be the buzzer-beater (and give the victory to Spain), nevertheless the ball came out. In January 2010, she played with the Mann Filter the Queen's Cup of basketball, which was celebrated in her hometown in the Prince Felipe of Zaragoza, where his team was eliminated by the almighty Ros Casares Valencia in semifinals 75-52 ( 30:49 minuntes, 9 points, 3 rebounds, 6 assists, 4 steals and 7 faults received).

Season 10/11

In his fifth season in the team, Cristina average 5 points, 2.7 rebounds, 3 assists, 1.9 steals in 21.2 minutes. The October 23, in 2010, Hondarribia, she played her 100th official match since his debut with the first team. He also played in the EuroCup Women where she reached the quarterfinals with a few notable numbers 4.9 points, 2.7 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 2 steals in 21.7 minutes.

On 5 of May, the national coach Jose Ignacio Hernandez made the senior female preselection with 15 players for the Eurobasket 2011 in Poland, which Cristina Ouviña appeared.

Clubs

Awards

Team Awards:

Individual Awards:

References

  1. ↑ http://www.wislacanpack.pl/5-cristina-ouvina
  2. ↑ http://www.muevetebasket.es/cristina-ouvina/jug/2786
  3. ↑ http://www.eurobasketwomen2013.com/en/cid_R8byT3QNIIkwoWJcfSbdm0.compID_pnlxO1HYJhUh,MTfrmUO03.season_2013.gameID_8764-54-A-1.html
  4. ↑ CDB Zaragoza
  5. ↑ http://www.feb.es/Inicio.aspx?tabid=51&file=selecciones/U19FEM/2009/CALENDARIO/CALENDARIO.htm

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