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Elena Delle Donne is 6’5″ basket ball player: Rated hottest female athlete 2012.
– Reported, November 10, 2012
Elena Delle Donne was born on September 5, 1989.She is an American college basketball and former volleyball player at the University of Delaware.
Delle Donne was a high school basketball player at Ursuline Academy in Wilmington, Delaware. She led Ursuline to three straight Delaware State Championship titles and was ranked as the number-one overall high school recruit by Scout.com. She was the first and only student at Ursuline so far to score 2,000+ points during her high school career. Delle Donne is 6’5″ and set the girls’ high school national record for consecutive free throws made (80) in 20052006.
Following her senior season in high school (20072008), Delle Donne received a basketball scholarship from Connecticut. On August 16, 2008, Delle Donne announced she would not accept the scholarship due to burnout, and instead decided to enroll at the University of Delaware and join their volleyball team as a walk-on.
She was voted the CAA’s “Player of the Year” and “Rookie of the Year” in women’s basketball by CAA coaches, sports information directors and media. This was the first time a player had won both awards in one year since Old Dominion’s Lucienne Berthieu did so in 1999. No men’s player has ever won both awards in the same season.She got USA Today National Player of the Year 2008.
She stand at 6’5″ and still be classified as one of the hottest females in her sport.
Elena Delle Donne is not only one of those women, she is also a pure scoring queen, averaging almost 30 points per game for the University of Delaware.
Elena Delle Donne’s first choice in the 2013 WNBA Draft is Chicago.