Park Ji-su


Park Ji-su is a South Korean female professional basketball player for the Cheongju KB Stars of the Women's Korean Basketball League.

Career

National team

Youth level

Park made her international debut 2012 FIBA Under-17 World Championship in the Netherlands, at age 13. Alongside this, Park participated at the 2014 U-17 World Championship in the Czech Republic, as well as the 2013 and 2015 U-19 World Championships in Lithuania and Russia respectively. Park had a prolific youth career at international tournaments, participating in seven FIBA events, across five years. This was highlighted by two bronze medals at FIBA Asia youth events.

Senior level

Park made her debut with the senior national team, at the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women in Turkey when she was 15 years old. Park averaged 11 points and 5 five rebounds per game in her senior debut.

WKBL

In 2016, Park began her professional career with the Cheongju KB Stars for the 2016–17 season. In 2017, Park received the WKBL Newcomer Award for the 2016–17 season.

WNBA

In 2018, Park Ji-su was drafted as the seventeenth overall pick by the Minnesota Lynx. After being released by the Lynx, Park was then picked up by the Las Vegas Aces, where she made the final roster and her WNBA debut aged 19.
In May 2020, Aces announced that Park would sit out the 2020 season to train in South Korea.

Overseas

On July 20, 2024, she signed with Galatasaray of the Turkish Women's Basketball Super League.