Alba Torrens


Alba Torrens Salom is a Spanish female basketball player at the small forward position who plays for UMMC Ekaterinburg. Winner of four EuroLeague titles with three clubs and seven medals with the Spanish senior team, she is considered one of the best European players of the 2010s.

Club career

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.
She moved abroad in 2011 to play for Galatasaray S.K., winning one League, three Cups and her second Euroleague in 2014.
At UMMC Ekaterinburg since 2014, she won three EuroLeague Women titles in 2016, 2018 and 2019, as well as one Russian Cup and four Russian Leagues.

EuroLeague statistics

SeasonTeamGPMPPPPPRPPAPP
2009–10 Halcón Avenida1524.47.53.42.4
2010–11 Halcón Avenida1628.015.84.22.3
2011–12 Galatasaray S.K.925.114.72.82.3
2012–13 Galatasaray S.K.1217.76.42.01.1
2013–14 Galatasaray S.K.1729.413.73.82.8
2014–15 UMMC Ekaterinburg1623.09.73.63.1
2015–16 UMMC Ekaterinburg1621.88.43.62.5
2016–17 UMMC Ekaterinburg1819.58.32.62.9
2017–18 UMMC Ekaterinburg1827.59.47.03.3
2018–19 UMMC Ekaterinburg1625.39.65.73.7
Total15324.210.23.82.4

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 2017, she had 151 caps with 13 PPG, participating in two Olympic Games, two World Championships and five European Championships: