The athlete to follow | The high school basketball queen that half of the United States is fighting for

The Rio 2016 Olympic Games they left one of the most incredible moments in the recent history of national basketball. The women’s team achieved a more than worthy silver medal, after losing in the grand final against the USA, but the Spanish tournament will always be remembered for the incredible match in quarter-final against Turkey. Spain was always in tow of the Ottoman team, which dominated a good part of the phases of the match. But, as usual, the Spanish did not give up at any time and fought until the end… living one of the most impressive moments of Spanish sport.

After a lot of work in defence, Spain managed to equal the Turkish team in intensity to, little by little, go up the marker in the last quarter. As happened in football not long ago, the barrier of the rooms was a wall that made it difficult for us to jump and it seemed that, this time, the same thing was going to happen. There were just under three seconds left and the game, tied at 62, would inevitably go into overtime… but Anna Cruz took command of operations and decided the match. He received the ball with less than two seconds left and, in an incredible basket, gave Spain the victory.

In a difficult shot, from five meters, with a rival on top and with only one foot as support, one of the most important baskets in the history of Spain was invented, which took us to the semi-finals of the Olympic Games and allowed Spain to dream in Rio. It was the key to later be able to fight for the medals and, for Anna Cruz, who was already playing in the WNBA, the starting signal to become a world reference. And it is that the North American championship has always had the best players in the world and, therefore, has begun to focus on a young american who has everything to succeed in basketball.

Emily La Chapell She is called to be one of the great players of the coming years. At 18 years old, she has made a name for herself in the lower categories of North American basketball thanks to her impressive statistics at Appleton East: with an average of 21.3 points, 7.2 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game, she is the best player in the Eastern Conference and has led her team, after 24 years, to fight for the title. La Chapell knows that this is her last season in her team, since next year she will begin her university career… and, although she claims not to have thought about it, half the USA is the raffle.

“I haven’t realized yet that it’s the end of the road, but we all know the next time we go out on the pitch it could be the last. Therefore, you have to leave everything on the field, play for each other, act as a family on and off the field and empty yourself“, he affirms in statements to ‘Fox11 News’. And it is precisely this weekend that Appleton East is playing for the title of champion, so the season is coming to an end. And it does so in a historic year for the team that he can make history, and he might not be the only member of his family to celebrate it in a big way: not in vain, his father is the coach.

“We have a very good balance between coach-player and father-daughter. I feel like we’ve found that connection point and we know when it’s time to talk about sports and when it’s time to hang out together,” the player explains. This season, Appleton East have a 20-4 record but, throughout his career with the team, La Chapell has 78 victories in which he has accumulated a total of 1,774 points. Her name began to sound internationally after two exhibitions: ante Wisconsin Rapids, when he scored 40 points; and ante Appleton Westmatch in which he scored 50 points.

La Chapell, who works as an escort, stands out for being a player with a great hand and very strong, as well as having a lot of intelligence to read the play and choose what the game needs at all times. Despite her youth, she shows great maturity on the track and handles leadership without fear, reasons that have caused many universities to be interested in her. Belmont, Green Bay, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa State, Kansas State, Marquette -which is your main option-Minnesota, Milwaukee, Utah, Wisconsin and Xavier have already knocked on his door. A player with many stripes and highly desired.

Be that as it may, the truth is that La Chapell has become one of the most sought-after young players in the US, which many of the great university teams are crazy to incorporate into their ranks and one of the great hopes of North American basketball. He still has a long way to go to reach the top, but he has unique conditions to achieve what he sets out to do. “There have been some ups and downs along the way, but I really feel lucky, it has been worth it.“, explains La Chapell, the young escort who has become the object of desire of the United States.