Astou Ndour

Astou Ndour Barro (born August 22, 1994) is a Spanish-Senegalese[1] professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the WNBA[2] and Çukurova Basketbol of the Turkish Women's Basketball League.

Astou Ndour
Ndour playing in 2019
No. 45 – Dallas Wings
PositionCenter
LeagueWNBA
Personal information
Born (1994-08-22) August 22, 1994
Dakar, Senegal
NationalitySpanish
Listed height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Listed weight150 lb (68 kg)
Career information
WNBA draft2014 / Round: 2 / Pick: 16th overall
Selected by the San Antonio Stars
Playing career2011–present
Career history
2011–2014Gran Canaria
2014San Antonio Stars
2014–2015Fenerbahçe
2015–2016Perfumerías Avenida
2016San Antonio Stars
2016–2018Passalacqua Ragusa
2018–2019Chicago Sky
2018–2019Çukurova Basketbol
2019-presentDynamo Kursk
2020–presentDallas Wings
Career highlights and awards
Stats at WNBA.com
Medals
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
World Cup
2018 Spain
EuroBasket
2019 Serbia/Latvia
2015 Hungary/Romania

Early life

Ndour was born in Dakar, Senegal on August 8, 1994. Both of her parents had been basketball players. She was a stand-out basketball player at her school in Dakar. Ndour moved to Las Palmas, Canary Islands where she was adopted by the ex-coach Domingo Díaz and his wife, when she was 14. She continued to play basketball for her school's team in Las Palmas.[3][4]

Career
Ndour (#45) playing for Çukurova

Europe

Ndour joined the youth system of Gran Canaria in 2009. She also played in the Junior Spanish Championship that year. Ndour became a naturalized Spanish citizen in 2011. She was a part of the Spanish youth team that won the silver medal at the 2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women where she nearly averaged a double-double.[3][5] As a member of the Spanish Youth National Team, Ndour's teams always won a medal in each tournament she played, including the bronze medal at the Under-18 European Championship for Women.[5]

Ndour started to play with the Spain women's national basketball team on 2014 when she was 20 years old, although she couldn't play the 2014 FIBA World Championship for Women, since Spain opted to take Sancho Lyttle, and FIBA Regulations establish that only one naturalized player per roster can participate in national teams competitions.

In 2015, she was part of the Spanish roster that won the Bronze medal at the EuroBasket Women 2015 in Hungary and Romania. Ndour was acquired from the San Antonio Stars by the Chicago Sky in exchange for Clarissa Dos Santos in February 2017.[6] In May 2017, Ndour was suspended by the Sky after not reporting to the team.[7]

In 2018 she signed for Turkish team Çukurova Basketbol[8] and in 2019 for Russian team Dynamo Kursk.

WNBA

Ndour played for the San Antonio Stars in the 2014 and 2016 WNBA seasons. She was traded to the Chicago Sky in 2017, and played for that team in the 2018 and 2019 seasons.[6] In 2019, she averaged 17.5 minutes and 6.8 points per game in the regular season and 25.5 minutes and 16.5 points in the playoffs as a starter.[9] Ending the season as a restricted free agent, she was re-signed and traded to the Dallas Wings before the 2020 season.[2]

Statistics

EuroLeague and EuroCup statistics
Season Team GP MPP PPP RPP APP
2010–11 EuroCup CB Islas Canarias 5 5.0 1.8 2.2 0.0
2011–12 EuroCup CB Islas Canarias 10 34.4 16.1 10.9 0.2
2014–15 EuroLeague Fenerbahçe 14 18.4 9.6 5.7 0.2
2015–16 EuroLeague Perfumerías Avenida 14 29.1 11.3 8.1 0.5
2016–17 EuroCup Virtus Eirene Ragusa 10 30.1 14.7 8.0 0.6
2017–18 EuroCup Virtus Eirene Ragusa 9 25.6 14.6 6.1 0.6
2018–19 EuroCup Çukurova Basketbol 12 25.1 15.7 5.9 1.1
2019–20 EuroLeague Dynamo Kursk 4 23.7 8.5 3.8 1.0
2019–20 EuroCup Dynamo Kursk

National team

Ndour started playing with Spain's youth teams at 16, winning a total of four medals from 2011 to 2014. She made her debut with the senior team in 2014, when she was 20 years old.[10][11] With the senior team she won the bronze medal in the 2015 Eurobasket and the silver medal in the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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References
  1. Astou Barro Ndour ya tiene la nacionalidad Española
  2. Kenney, Madeline (2020-02-12). "Sky send Astou Ndour to Wings". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  3. Cristóvão, Luís (April 13, 2014). "WNBA draft prospect profile: What would Spain's Astou Ndour offer a WNBA team?". Swish Appeal. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  4. Sáez-Bravo, Lucas (August 7, 2016). "La hora de Astou: "Yo soy yo"". El Mundo. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  5. "Ndour: From Senegal To Spanish Stardom". FIBA. July 10, 2013. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  6. "San Antonio Stars acquire center Clarissa Dos Santos from the Chicago Sky in exchange for center Astou Ndour". Hoopfeed. February 27, 2017. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
  7. WNBA Transactions
  8. "Astou N'Dour Röportajı – Çukurova Basketbol". cukurovabasketbol.com. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
  9. "Astou Ndour WNBA Stats". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
  10. "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es (in Spanish). Retrieved August 27, 2018.
  11. http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/q/Astou%20NDOUR/pid/88675/_//players.html
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