In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pendande and the second or maternal family name is Mendes.
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Born | (2000-03-29) 29 March 2000 (age 24) El Ejido, Spain | ||||||||||||||
Position | Center | ||||||||||||||
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CB Santfeliuenc | |||||||||||||||
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María Dolores "Lola" Pendande Mendes (born 29 March 2000) is a Spanish basketball player who plays as a center for the Spain women's national team. She was born to Bissau-Guinean parents.
Career
She played at the 2018 FIBA U20 Women's European Championship, and EuroBasket Women 2023, winning a silver medal.
She played for University of Utah, and University of Miami.
She played for CB Santfeliuenc.
National team career
Pendande made her international debut in 2016, when she was 16-years-old. In 2022, she made her debut with the senior national team at 22. She played at EuroBasket Women 2023, winning a silver medal.
- 6th 2016 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth)
- 2016 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
- 6th 2017 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
- 2023 Eurobasket
References
- "PENDANDE MENDES, MARIA DOLORES".
- Eurobasket. "Lola Pendande, Basketball Player, News, Stats - Eurobasket". Eurobasket LLC. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- "El viaje de Lola Pendande: raíces en Guinea-Bissau, racismo, March Madness, selección..." MARCA (in Spanish). 29 May 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- "Lola Pendande: "Quiero que mis padres se sientan orgullosos de mí"".
- "Lola PENDANDE MENDES at the FIBA U20 Women's European Championship 2018". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ "Lola PENDANDE MENDES at the FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2023". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- "Lola Pendande - Women's Basketball". University of Utah Athletics. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- "Comments: Utah Utes' Brynna Maxwell, Lola Pendande earn All-Pac-12 honors". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- "Lola Pendande". University of Miami Athletics. 12 July 2021. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- "Miami Women Add Transfer Lola Pendande to 2021-22 Roster". thesportsledger.com. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- "Lola Pendande Stats, News, Bio". ESPN. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- "Lola PENDANDE MENDES at the FIBA Women's EuroBasket 2023". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
External links
- Lola Pendande, Forward, Talks With Marcus Benjamin At Media Day
- Baloncesto España Lola Pendande, 2018
- 2000 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Almería
- Spanish women's basketball players
- Centers (basketball)
- Utah Utes women's basketball players
- Miami Hurricanes women's basketball players
- Spanish expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Spanish people of Bissau-Guinean descent
- Sportspeople of Bissau-Guinean descent
- 21st-century Spanish sportswomen