Elena Delle Donne

Information about the player
Elena Delle Donne

birthday	5th September 1989 (age 30)
place of birth	Wilmington , Delaware , United States
size	196 cm
position	Guard / Forward
college	Delaware
WNBA Draft	2013 , 2nd pick , Chicago Sky
Club information
society	Washington Mystics
league	WNBA
Clubs as active
2013–2016 Chicago Sky Since 2017 Washington Mystics United States 0United States
National team
	United States

Elena Delle Donne medal table
Basketball (women)
United States United States
Olympic games
gold	Brazil 2016 Rio de Janeiro
World Championship
gold	Spain 2018 Spain

Elena Delle Donne (born September 5, 1989 in Wilmington , Delaware ) is an American basketball player . At 196 cm as tall as many center players, their style of play corresponds to that of a guard or a forward . Delle Donne has been active in the WNBA since 2013 and for the Washington Mystics since 2017 .

Career

After an outstanding basketball career in high school , Delle Donne first accepted a scholarship in 2008 at the University of Connecticut, which is renowned for its basketball program . After only a few days, however, she returned to her native Delaware for personal reasons and began studying at the University of Delaware , for whose volleyball team she played. It was not until the following year that Delle Donne took part in basketball games again. Although she was diagnosed with the infectious disease Lyme disease in 2010 , she scored more than 3000 points in her NCAA career, which only eight other players had achieved before her. In addition, she won the gold medal in the US selection at the 2011 Universiade .

At the 2013 WNBA Draft , Delle Donne was selected 2nd by the Chicago Sky . As the first league newcomer ever, she received the most votes from the fans in the election for the WNBA All-Star Game . At the end of the season, Delle Donne was unanimously voted WNBA Rookie of the Year . While the Sky had never reached the play-offs before, this time they were first in the Eastern Conference , but then eliminated in the first round. In the 2014 season, she had to take a longer break from competition due to her Lyme disease. Towards the end of the season, however, she intervened again in the game and scored in the decisive game of the first play-off round against the top seeded Atlanta Dream 34 points, including the game-winning throw. In the further course of the play-offs impaired by a back injury, she reached the final series with the Sky, but where Chicago was inferior to the Phoenix Mercury . In 2015 Delle Donne was awarded the WNBA Most Valuable Player Award , but lost to the Indiana Fever with Chicago in the first round of the play-offs . At the 2016 Olympic Games , she won the title with the US selection .

Private

Donne married her partner Amanda Clifton on November 4, 2017, to whom she had been engaged since June 2, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Elena Delle Donne - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Official website (English)
Elena Delle Donne - player profile on WNBA.com

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Russ Bengtson: Elena Delle Donne, The Golden Child . In: Slam . 101, 2006.
↑ Abe Schwadron: The Loop . In: Slam . 172, 2013.
^ Jere Longman: At Pinnacle, Stepping Away From Basketball. The New York Times , October 19, 2008, accessed July 13, 2014 .
↑ Adam Himmelsbach: Prized Recruit Happy Back Home in Delaware. The New York Times , March 17, 2012, accessed July 13, 2014 .
↑ Elena Delle Donne scores 3,000th career point in Delaware win over UNC. (No longer available online.) San Jose Mercury News , March 27, 2013, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on July 13, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Elena Delle Donne Named 2013 WNBA Rookie of the Year. WNBA, September 20, 2013, accessed July 13, 2014 .
↑ Mechelle Voepel: Sky, Delle Donne get it done. ESPN , August 27, 2014, accessed August 28, 2014 .
↑ Sky's Elena Delle Donne Named 2015 WNBA Most Valuable Player Presented By Samsung. WNBA, September 16, 2015, accessed September 18, 2015 .
↑ Karin Schupp: K-Word # 224: News from the lesbian world. In: L-Mag . November 3, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .
↑ Chris Hine, Phil Thompson: Elena Delle Donne engaged, comes out: 'I'm not at all going to hide anything'. In: Chicago Tribune . August 3, 2016, accessed November 5, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Delle Donne, Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH	5th September 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wilmington , Delaware

[slam101-1] A ^b Russ Bengtson: Elena Delle Donne, The Golden Child . In: Slam . 101, 2006.

[2] Abe Schwadron: The Loop . In: Slam . 172, 2013.

[3] Jere Longman: At Pinnacle, Stepping Away From Basketball. The New York Times , October 19, 2008, accessed July 13, 2014 .

[4] Adam Himmelsbach: Prized Recruit Happy Back Home in Delaware. The New York Times , March 17, 2012, accessed July 13, 2014 .

[5] Elena Delle Donne scores 3,000th career point in Delaware win over UNC. (No longer available online.) San Jose Mercury News , March 27, 2013, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on July 13, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[6] Elena Delle Donne Named 2013 WNBA Rookie of the Year. WNBA, September 20, 2013, accessed July 13, 2014 .

[7] Mechelle Voepel: Sky, Delle Donne get it done. ESPN , August 27, 2014, accessed August 28, 2014 .

[8] Sky's Elena Delle Donne Named 2015 WNBA Most Valuable Player Presented By Samsung. WNBA, September 16, 2015, accessed September 18, 2015 .

[9] Karin Schupp: K-Word # 224: News from the lesbian world. In: L-Mag . November 3, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2017 .

[10] Chris Hine, Phil Thompson: Elena Delle Donne engaged, comes out: 'I'm not at all going to hide anything'. In: Chicago Tribune . August 3, 2016, accessed November 5, 2017 .