Alba Torrens

Alba Torrens Salom (born 30 August 1989) is a Spanish female basketball player at the small forward position. She is currently captain of Valencia Basket.
She previously played for UMMC Ekaterinburg. Winner of six EuroLeague titles with three clubs and eight medals with the Spanish senior team, she is considered one of the best European players of the 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 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 (Eurobasket 2013 and 2017), two silver (World Cup 2014 and Olympic Games 2016) and four bronze (Eurobasket 2009 and 2015 and World Cup 2010 and 2018).
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.
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
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:
2004 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth) (MVP)
2005 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
2006 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
2007 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
4th 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth)
2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth) (MVP)
5th 2008 Summer Olympics
2009 Eurobasket
2010 World Championship
9th 2011 Eurobasket
2013 Eurobasket
2014 World Championship
2015 Eurobasket
2016 Summer Olympics
2017 Eurobasket (MVP)
2018 World Championship
6th 2020 Summer Olympics
2023 Eurobasket
Individual awards and accomplishments
FIBA Europe Young Women's Player of the Year Award: 2009
FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year: 2011, 2014
EuroLeague Final Four MVP: 2011, 2014
EuroBasket Women MVP: 2017
3x EuroBasket All-Tournament Team: 2013, 2015, 2017
References
External links
1989 births
Living people
Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Connecticut Sun draft picks
Galatasaray S.K. (women's basketball) players
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic basketball players for Spain
Olympic medalists in basketball
Olympic silver medalists for Spain
Shooting guards
Small forwards
Spanish expatriate basketball people in Russia
Spanish expatriate basketball people in Turkey
Spanish women's basketball players
Sportspeople from Mallorca