Satou Sabally

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Basketball player
Satou Sabally
Information about the player
Full name Satou Sabally
birthday April 25, 1998
place of birth New York City , New York , United States
size 1.89 m
position wing
college Oregon
WNBA Draft 2020 , 2nd pick , Dallas Wings
Club information
society Dallas Wings
Fenerbahçe İstanbul
league WNBA ( Western Conference )
TKBL
Clubs as active
2012-2015 GermanyGermany TuS Lichterfelde
2015-2017 GermanyGermany Kingfishers USC Freiburg
2017-2020 United StatesUnited States Oregon Ducks ( NCAA )
2020– TurkeyTurkey Fenerbahçe İstanbul
WNBA clubs as active
2020– United StatesUnited States Dallas Wings
National team
2014 GermanyGermany Germany (U-16)
2018 GermanyGermany Germany (U-20)
2018– GermanyGermany Germany

Satou Sabally (born April 25, 1998 in New York City , New York ) is a German basketball player who plays in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for the Dallas Wings .

career

The daughter of a Gambian father and a German mother was born in New York City . At the age of three, her family moved to Berlin , where they started their basketball career at the German Basketball Club (DBC) e. V. Berlin began. After moving to TuS Lichterfelde , she played in the first team in the second division at the age of 14 . At the age of 16 she was already a regular player and in the 2014/2015 season she advanced to the leading position with the team highs of an average of 17.1 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. In the female junior Bundesliga (WNBL), Satou Sabally was the most successful thrower in the main round of the 2014/2015 season with an average of 34.5 points per game. For the 2015/2016 season she signed a contract with the first division club Eisvögel USC Freiburg . In the 2016/17 season she scored an average of 10.1 points per match for the kingfishers in the Bundesliga, doubling her value from the previous season.

In 2017 Sabally moved to the University of Oregon in the United States . A year later, her younger sister Nyara joined the Oregon roster. In the 2019/20 season, she was the third-best scorer in the university team with 16.2 points per match and was always in the starting line-up in her 29 missions. She and her team won the championship of the Pacific-12 Conference every year . Sabally was awarded the " Cheryl Miller Award" for best winger in the country in 2020 and was elected to the teams of the WBCA First-Team All-America and All-Pac-12.

In February 2020, she announced that she was giving up her fourth and final year at the University of Oregon in order to enroll in the WNBA's April 2020 draft proceedings. In several previews, the Berliner was considered a contender for third place in the draft, in the end she was selected second after her college colleague Sabrina Ionescu by the Dallas Wings . This represents the highest position of a German player both in the WNBA and in the NBA draft . Her national team colleague Luisa Geiselsöder was also selected by Dallas in 22nd place . In May 2020 she was signed by Fenerbahçe İstanbul to play outside of the WNBA season.

National team

The Berliner was always a top performer in the selection teams of the German Basketball Federation. The youth national player played a key role in winning the U-16 B European Championship and the associated promotion to the A group at the 2014 European B Championship. In the final against England she scored half of all German points with 34 points and thus contributed significantly to Germany's 68:54 victory. With 20.1 points per game, she was the best scorer in this European B championship. In 2018 she made the leap to the women's national team .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Louis Richter: Berlin's greatest basketball talent Satou Sabally is moving to the USA. In: tagesspiegel.de. April 17, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 2nd League North Statistics TuSLi 2014/2015. DBBL GmbH, February 6, 2015, accessed on February 9, 2015 .
  3. ↑ WNBL top basket Jaeger indoor main round. German Basketball Association, January 2015, accessed on February 9, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Team 2015/16: Part 2 - Who is coming? USC Freiburg, July 10, 2015, accessed on August 16, 2015 .
  5. ↑ https://goducks.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=8047
  6. ↑ https://www.oregonlive.com/recruiting/index.ssf/2017/04/nyara_sabally_sister_of_elite.html
  7. ↑ 2019-20 Women's Basketball Cumulative Statistics. Retrieved March 23, 2020 (English).
  8. ↑ Satou Sabally wins Cheryl Miller Award as Nation's Top Small Forward. April 6, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  9. ^ Ducks' Sabally to enter WNBA draft after season. February 20, 2020, accessed on March 23, 2020 .
  10. ↑ WNBA mock draft 2020: How high will Oregon's Sabrina Ionescu, Satou Sabally and Ruth Hebard be drafted? February 20, 2020, accessed on March 23, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Trio of Ducks remain in first round of latest WNBA mock draft. Retrieved March 23, 2020 (American English).
  12. ↑ Manuel Baraniak: WNBA Draft: Satou Sabally second pick of the Dallas Wings. In: basketball.de. April 17, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020 .
  13. ↑ As Nowitzki once did: basketball player Sabally will play in Dallas in the future. In: kicker.de. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  14. ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Satou Sabally joins Fenerbahçe - DER SPIEGEL - Sport. Accessed May 31, 2020 .
  15. ↑ U-16 girls B European champions. Deutscher-Basketball-Bund, August 11, 2014, accessed on February 6, 2015 .
  16. ↑ Tallinn 2014. FIBA Europe, August 11, 2014, accessed February 6, 2015 .
  17. ↑ DBB ladies ready for the Netherlands. German Basketball Association, accessed on May 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sabally, Satou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German national basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York