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Angela Salvadores is getting a lot of attention after today's performance.  If you read Spanish I am sure you can get a lot more information on her, but this is the only article in English with any substance I found:
http://www.noodls.com/view/EE07D9CB83905...1399482459
She has a black belt in karate, and comes from a basketball family.    It is very hard to tell what kind of student she might be. 

Most recently, Salvadores has been playing in the second tier of Spanish basketball with Segle XXI, where she recently completed the second season of her education at the adult level.

I don't know the Spanish system well enough to interpret what this means.  The European scholarship athletes I get in classes have usually been better prepared academically than their American counterparts.  Many of them write better English than my California students.  But that does not necessarily give insight into an individual.  I am sure we will start hearing more about her.

I did check out this site:
http://www.usbasket.com/Foreign-Players-...SP&women=1
to find out how common it is for Spanish players to play for US colleges.  It looked like a couple of dozen do so, although it lists pros as well as college players, and the accuracy is a bit questionable considering it claims Nicole Powell as Spanish.  I thought she was from Arizona originally.  In any case, there are 90 from Australia, 125 from Canada, and then Sweden, Spain, UK, Germany, France and Nigeria all have about two dozen, so I guess Spain is represented about as well as any European country.

[81alum]

Angela Salvadores is getting a lot of attention after today's performance.  If you read Spanish I am sure you can get a lot more information on her, but this is the only article in English with any substance I found:
http://www.noodls.com/view/EE07D9CB83905...1399482459
She has a black belt in karate, and comes from a basketball family.    It is very hard to tell what kind of student she might be. 

Most recently, Salvadores has been playing in the second tier of Spanish basketball with Segle XXI, where she recently completed the second season of her education at the adult level.

I don't know the Spanish system well enough to interpret what this means.  The European scholarship athletes I get in classes have usually been better prepared academically than their American counterparts.  Many of them write better English than my California students.  But that does not necessarily give insight into an individual.  I am sure we will start hearing more about her.

I did check out this site:
http://www.usbasket.com/Foreign-Players-...SP&women=1
to find out how common it is for Spanish players to play for US colleges.  It looked like a couple of dozen do so, although it lists pros as well as college players, and the accuracy is a bit questionable considering it claims Nicole Powell as Spanish.  I thought she was from Arizona originally.  In any case, there are 90 from Australia, 125 from Canada, and then Sweden, Spain, UK, Germany, France and Nigeria all have about two dozen, so I guess Spain is represented about as well as any European country.