Alba Torrens

Alba Torrens Salom (born 30 August 1989) is a Spanish female basketball player at the small forward position.

Club career Celta Vigourban, Perfumerias Avenida 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.

Galatasaray She left Spain at the age of 22, having already been named the best female basketball player in Europe. By May 2022 she had titles from 3 European Super Cups, 1 League and 1 Super Cup in Spain, 1 League, 3 Cups and a Super Cup in Turkey and 7 Leagues and 2 Cups in Russia. In the Euroleague, she was named Eurobasket MVP in 2017.

Torrens also competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Valencia Basket In the summer of 2022, she signed with Valencia Basket, becoming captain of the Spanish team and a power forward after eleven years abroad. The club announced the hire in May 2022.

EuroLeague statistics Euroleague winner

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 2026, she had 222 caps with 12 PPG:

4th 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth)

5th 2008 Summer Olympics

9th 2011 Eurobasket

6th 2020 Summer Olympics

Individual awards and accomplishments FIBA Europe Young Women's Player of the Year Award: 2009 FIBA Europe Women's Player of the Year: 2011, 2014 EuroLeague Final Four MVP: 2011, 2014 EuroBasket Women MVP: 2017 3x EuroBasket All-Tournament Team: 2013, 2015, 2017