Raquel Carrera

Raquel Carrera

No. 14 – Valencia Basket
Position	Power forward
League	Liga Femenina
Personal information
Born	(2001-10-31) 31 October 2001 (age 23) Ourense, Spain
Listed height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Career information
WNBA draft	2021: 2nd round, 15th overall pick
Selected by the Atlanta Dream
Playing career	2016–present
Career history
2016–2019	Celta Vigo (LF2)
2019–2020	Araski AES
2020–present	Valencia Basket
Career highlights and awards
EuroCup champion (2021)
Stats at Basketball Reference
Medals EuroBasket 2023 Israel/Slovenia

Raquel Carrera Quintana^[a] (born 31 October 2001) is a Spanish professional basketball player for Valencia Basket of the Liga Femenina in Spain.

She was drafted by the Atlanta Dream with the 15th overall in the 2021 WNBA draft, but her draft rights were later traded to the New York Liberty. Carrera is the highest Spanish player ever picked in the WNBA draft.^[1][2][3][4]

Carrera spent three years in Spain's Women's League 2 with Celta Zorka, where she averaged 12.3 points and 6.5 rebounds.^[5] She signed with Valencia in 2019 on a five-year contract. After signing with Valencia, Carrera spent a year with Araski while recovering from injury before returning to Valencia.^[6][7] In her first season with Valencia Basket she won the 2020-21 EuroCup Women scoring two last-second free-throws.^[8]

EuroCup statistics

Winner

Season	Team	GP	MPP	PPP	RPP	APP
2020-21 EuroCup	Valencia Basket	7	20.7	6.9	3.4	1.0
2021-22 EuroCup	Valencia Basket

National team career

Carrera made her international debut at the 2016 FIBA Under-17 World Championship for Women when she was 14-years-old. She has competed in that tournament twice times, placing 6th in both. She also competed in European U16 tournaments, for which she won gold in 2016 and silver in 2017, and the European U18, for which she won silver in 2018. In 2021, Carrera was chosen to the Spanish Women's National Team, participating in the EuroBasket Women 2021 and the 2020 Summer Olympics. Up to end of the year, she had 19 caps, with 5.5 PPG:^{[9][10][11][12]}

She played at EuroBasket Women 2023, winning a silver medal.^[13]

• 6th 2016 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth)
• 2016 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
• 5th 2017 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
• 6th 2018 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth)
• 2018 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
• 7th 2021 Eurobasket
• 6th 2020 Summer Olympics
• 2023 Eurobasket

Notes

1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Carrera and the second or maternal family name is Quintana.

References

1. "Raquel Carrera y Aina Ayuso, elegidas en el draft de la WNBA". 16 April 2021.
2. "Raquel Carrera, la mejor española en la historia del draft de la WNBA". Superdeporte. 16 April 2021.
3. "Raquel Carrera Quintana WNBA Stats". Basketball-Reference.com.
4. "12 NEW BIG MISTAKE ERASER LARGE JUMBO REALLY BIG MISTAKES ERASERS SCHOOL OFFICE Desk Accessories Office Supplies".
5. "Raquel Carrera, ala-pívot de 17 años, llegada cedida al Rpk Araski. Noticias de Alava". 9 December 2019. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019.
6. "Raquel Carrera: "Soy muy joven, pero en la pista no hay edades"". El Correo. 8 October 2019.
7. https://www.football24.news/basketball/108335/raquel-carrera-the-future-is-here-sports.html ^{[dead link‍]}
8. "Valencia Basket claim maiden EuroCup Women title".
9. "Las 19 convocadas por la Selección Femenina para la concentración de noviembre". Gigantes del Basket. 26 October 2020.
10. "El Valencia Basket ficha a Raquel Carrera hasta 2024". Las Provincias. 13 May 2019.
11. "Raquel Carrera se une al proyecto de Valencia Basket". FEB.
12. "Raquel CARRERA at the FIBA U18 Women's European Championship 2019".
13. "Raquel CARRERA at the FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2023". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 27 June 2023.

External links

• Raquel Carrera at FIBA (archive)
• Raquel Carrera international stats at Basketball-Reference.com
• Raquel Carrera at Eurobasket.com
• Raquel Carrera at Olympedia (archive)
• Raquel Carrera at Olympics.com
• Raquel Carrera Quintana (and here) at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish) (archive 1, archive 2)