Aislinn "Ace" Konig is a Canadian-Austrian professional

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player for the Flammes Carolo Basket of the Ligue Féminine de Basketball and the Canada women's national basketball team. A switch-up guard and a reliable, consistent three-point shooter, Konig is the most decorated

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school player who has competed at

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Division 1 level and professionally in Europe.

Career

Playing for the Brookswood Bobcats in

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, Konig won three provincial championships and was named MVP in each season. Upon graduating, she was recruited to the

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, where she played four ACC seasons. With the Wolfpack she reached the third round of the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament as a sophomore and junior, the same year she also set an ACC record for most three-pointers in a season. In her senior year she won the ACC Tournament with the Wolfpack and was named the tournament MVP and to the All-ACC Second Team. She ended her NC State career as the program's all-time leading three-point shooter and graduated with a degree in Business Administration. Konig turned professional in 2020, signing with

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. The following season she competed with

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team Elfic Fribourg, for whom she was the leading scorer in the team's perfect season. Following that, she joined the

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' training camp before siging with Flammes Carolo in

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for the 2022-23 season.

National Team Career

Konig made her international debut at age fourteen, first competing for Canada at the Under-16 and Under-18 teams in FIBA Americas tournaments. She was part of the team for the

2017 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup The 2017 FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup ( it, Campionato mondiale di basket femminile Under 19 FIBA 2017) was hosted by Italy from 22 to 30 July 2017. Russia won their first title (or third if the Soviet Union is included) by defeat ...

, where she helped the team medal for the first time in their history as well as setting a record for most threes in a single game, with ten against

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. She made her senior team debut at the 2019 Pan-American Games and was later called up for the

2021 FIBA Women's AmeriCup The 2021 FIBA Women's AmeriCup was the 16th edition of the FIBA Women's AmeriCup, which is the main tournament for senior women's basketball national teams of the FIBA Americas. It was held from 11 to 19 June 2021. On 20 March 2021, Puerto Rico was ...

and

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, where Canada finished fourth both times.

References

External Links

, Official Website, NC State Profile, FIBA Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Konig, Aislinn 1998 births Living people Basketball people from British Columbia NC State Wolfpack women's basketball players Guards (basketball) Canadian women's basketball players Canadian expatriate basketball people in Belgium Canadian expatriate basketball people in Switzerland Canadian people of Austrian descent