Alba Torrens


Alba Torrens Salom is a Spanish female basketball player at the small forward position.
She previously played for UMMC Ekaterinburg. Winner of six EuroLeague titles with three clubs and eight medals with the Spain women's national [basketball team|Spanish senior team], she is considered one of the best European players of the FIBA Europe Women's [Player of the Year Award|2010s]. After the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she left the Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg.

Club career

Celta Vigourban, Perfumerias Avenida

Torrens started playing basketball in clubs in her native Balearic Islands before moving in 2003 to Segle XXI, where young talents are developed. She made her debut in the Spanish top-tier league with Celta Vigourban in the 2007–08 season. Perfumerías Avenida was her clubs for the next two seasons, winning the Spanish league and the EuroLeague Women|Euroleague] in 2011 under coach Lucas Mondelo. Despite being picked by the Connecticut Sun in the 2009 WNBA draft, she has repeatedly refused to join the WNBA because of the commitment to the national team.

Galatasaray

She left Spain at the age of 22, having already been named the best female basketball player in Europe. She then spent three seasons at Galatasaray, and eight at Yekaterinburg, earning six European champion awards.
She moved abroad in 2011 to play for Galatasaray S.K., winning one League, three Cups and her second Euroleague in 2014.
She was Euroleague MVP in 2011 and 2014, and Best Player in Europe in 2011 and 2014.

UMMC Ekaterinburg

Joining the Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg in 2014, she won three EuroLeague Women titles in 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2021, as well as two Russian Cup and seven Russian Leagues.
With a sixth winners' medal in 2021, she equaled the modern-era record for EuroLeague Women titles, drawing even with Diana Taurasi and Natalia Vieru. By May 2022 she had titles from 3 European Super Cups, 1 League and 1 Super Cup in Spain, 1 League, 3 Cups and a Super Cup in Turkey and 7 Leagues and 2 Cups in Russia. In her last season with Ekaterinburg, she averaged "10.8 points, 5.2 rebounds, 4.5 assists and a PIR of 14.3." After the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, she left the team.

Olympics

Playing for Spain, by early 2022 she held 8 medals: two gold, two silver and four bronze.
In 2016, she scored 32 points over China in the Rio Olympics, leading Spain to a 89-68 win. In the Euroleague, she was named Eurobasket MVP in 2017.
In July 2021, in a matchup of Olympic medalists at the Rio Olympics, TSN reported that Torrens had scored 25 points in a win over Serbia, leading the Spanish team.
Torrens also competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Valencia Basket

In the summer of 2022, she signed with Valencia Basket, becoming captain of the Spanish team and a power forward after eleven years abroad. The club announced the hire in May 2022.

EuroLeague statistics

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2009–10

National team

Torrens started playing with Spain's youth teams at 14, winning a total of five medals from 2004 to 2009. She made her debut with the senior team in 2008, and went to play with the 2008 Summer Olympics when she was 18 years old. Up to 2021, she had 183 caps with 13 PPG: