Helen Luz
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| Americana | ||||||||||||||||
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| Position | Point guard/Shooting guard | |||||||||||||||
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| Born |
November 23, 1972 Araçatuba, Brazil |
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| Nationality | Brazilian | |||||||||||||||
| Listed height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | |||||||||||||||
| Listed weight | 144 lb (65 kg) | |||||||||||||||
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| 2001-2003 | Washington Mystics | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Zaragoza | |||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Novosibirsk | |||||||||||||||
| 2004-2006 | Barcelona | |||||||||||||||
| 2006-2007 | Rivas | |||||||||||||||
| 2007-2008 | Cadí La Seu | |||||||||||||||
| 2008-2010 | Hondarribia-Irun | |||||||||||||||
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Helen Cristina Santos Luz (born November 23, 1972 in Araçatuba, Brazil) is a recently retired Brazilian professional basketball player. A starting guard on the great Brazilian teams of the 1990s and early 2000s, she was world champion in the 1994 FIBA World Championship for Women and bronze medallist at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Luz also played for the Washington Mystics in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) in 2001-2003, and in the Spanish Liga Femenina for Zaragoza (2003–2004), Barcelona (2004–2006), Rivas (2006–2007), Cadi La Seu (2007–2008), and Hondarribia-Irun (2008–2010). She finished her career in one final season with the Brazilian team Americana, in São Paulo State, announcing her retirement at the end of February 2011.
Since retiring, Helen has become a commentator on Sportv, opened (with her sisters) a social project for teaching basketball to children in Louveira, and begun a regular blog. [1] In addition, she told interviewers that she hoped to become a mother, and on November 21, 2012, she and her husband Octavio welcomed into the world their son Pedro Lafiaccola Luz. Most recently she has become vice president of the Liga Basquete Feminino (the Women's Basketball League of Brazil), and has been invited to join the Commission for Women in Sport set up by the Brazilian Olympic Committee.
She is sister to three other basketballers, Silvia, Cínthia and Rafael.
Helen played on the Brazilian women's national teams that competed in the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992 (7th place), Sydney in 2000 (bronze medal), and Athens in 2004 (4th place), and in the World Championships in Australia in 1994 (Gold medal), Germany in 1998 (4th place), China in 2002 (7th place), and Brazil in 2006 (4th place). Her teams were South American Champions in 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2005,2006 and 2010. She was MVP in the 2001 Copa América in Brazil and 2005 in Paraguay.
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