Riga, August 24, LETA. Offensive guard Ieva Pulvere has signed a new one-year contract with the Latvian champion team “TTT Rīga”, the club informs on Monday.
Powder next season will wear the “TTT Rīga” team shirt for the ninth season.
“The team needs players who drive both themselves and others with their example. Ieva Pulvere is a real professional. Her experience and sense of responsibility will be useful to us in Euroleague, as well as in other tournaments and training with new players,” the club quotes head coach Mārtiņš Gulbja. provided.
In the autumn of 2020, Powder returned to professional sports after the birth of her son. She participated in 18 games of the Latvian Women’s Basketball League (LSBL), scoring 12.4 points in 40 seconds on average in 26 minutes. The defense won 3.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists, as well as 2.4 balls.
The experienced basketball player took 53.7% of two-point and 39.7% of three-point throws, as well as 84.8% of free throws. On average, 2.6 long shots were taken, showing the second best score in the team. In the European Women’s Basketball League in eight games in 22 minutes 27 seconds, Powder scored 7.1 points, won 3.0 balls and made 1.6 assists.
In 2019, the guard helped the “TTT Rīga” team to reach the best eight in the Euroleague, showing the best result in 34 seasons. Pulvere scored 8.2 points in an average of 29 minutes in 18 games (fourth best score in the team), made 3.9 assists (second best score), won 3.2 rebounds, caught 1.1 balls, got the best +/- score 8 , 6 and earned an efficiency of 8.5.
In the Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian leagues, Pulvere scored 10.5 points in an average of 22 minutes in 15 games, made 5.9 passes, won 3.6 balls under baskets and earned an efficiency of 16.1. In the European League, the defense scored 10.1 points and 3.0 assists in 23 games in an average of 23 minutes, as well as 2.5 rebounds and a efficiency of 10.8.
Pulvere has played in three European Championship finals (2013, 2017, 2019) and the World Cup (2018). He made his debut in the Latvian national team on May 19, 2012, scoring 523 points in 94 games. Played in seven European youth championships – 55 games, 374 points. One of the eight Latvian basketball players who has won two medals in the European U-20 Championship (2009, 2010).
She is a seven-time Latvian champion (“Cēsis” – 2009, “TTT Rīga” – 2015-2019, 2021), winner of the Latvian-Estonian league (2015-2018), winner of the Latvian-Estonian-Lithuanian league (2019 .), European Women’s Basketball League (EWBL) Champion (2016, 2019), Lithuanian Champion (2014), Lithuanian Cup Winner (2014) and Baltic League Champion (2014).
Powder has been the captain of “TTT Rīga” since 2016, performing these duties also in the state unit. She has been recognized as the most valuable player in the Latvian-Estonian league “Six Finals” (2015) and MVP of the Lithuanian Cup (2014). Member of the EWBL Symbolic Five. Has spent three full seasons in the European Cup and two in the Euroleague.
Powder (previously – Krastiņa) debuted in the “TTT Rīga” team in 2011. During his career, he has also represented the teams of “Cēsis” and “University of Latvia”, but spent one season outside Latvia in the “Kibirkštis” unit in Vilnius.
“TTT Rīga” lost in all six games in the Euroleague main tournament last season and did not enter the playoffs. The modest result is largely due to the lack of playing practice, as the team was unable to play the matches from the beginning of November due to an emergency situation. In order to get a practice, “TTT Rīga” decided to play EWBL in the middle of December, where they managed to win bronze.
“TTT Rīga” also won the LSBL for the eighth time in a row and for the 20th time in the history of the club.
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