Daniela Wallen Morillo (born 4 April 1995) is a Venezuelan basketball player for

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of the Úrvalsdeild kvenna and the Venezuela national team. She played college basketball for

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and

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and won the NAIA championship with the later in 2017. Following her college career, she has played professionally in three continents. In 2018, she won the Paraguayan League championship with Sol de América Asunción and the following year she won the

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as a member of Peli-Karhut.

Early life

Wallen grew up in

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where she played

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in her youth. Her parents where both former basketball players, but she only started playing basketball with a youth team at the age of 15 and the same year she first played for one of Venezuela's youth national teams.

College career

Wallen started her college career with

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in 2013. After having trouble adjusting to the new settings, mostly due to the language barrier as she spoke no English, Wallen transferred to

the following season. During the 2014–2015 season, she was named First-team All-

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after averaging 15.4 points, 8.6 rebounds and 3.79 steals per game. In 2015, she transferred again, this time to

. During her first year, she averaged 19.6 points, 9.3 rebounds, 3.2 assists and 3.3 steals per game and was named the

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player of the year. The following season, she helped Oklahoma to win the NAIA championship while being named the Tournament MVP.

Club career

Wallen's first professional stop was with

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in the

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during the 2017–2018 season where she averaged 16.4 points and 11.8 rebounds per game. In March 2018, she signed with the

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of the Australian

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. After the SEABL season, she signed with Sol de América Asunción where she won the Paraguayan League championship with Sol de América Asunción and was named the Finals MVP in December the same year. In February 2019, Wallen joined Peli-Karhut of the Finnish

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. In April, she won the Finnish championship after Peli beat Catz Lappeenranta in the Finals. In 2019, Wallen signed with

of the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild kvenna. She averaged 24.7 points, 13.1 rebounds and 4.9 assists during the 2019–20 season with Keflavík in the third place when the rest of the season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Iceland. She re-signed with Keflavík and had a stand-out second season, averaging 25.6 points and league leading 17.0 rebounds per game and was named the Úrvalsdeild Foreign Player of the Year. In 2023, she was again named the Úrvalsdeild Foreign Player of the Year after leading Keflavík to the Úrvalsdeild finals and averaging 20.4 points, 11.7 rebounds and 4.6 assists during the regular seasons and playoffs.

References

External links

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Daniela Wallen Daniela Wallen Morillo (born 4 April 1995) is a Venezuelan basketball player for Keflavík of the Úrvalsdeild kvenna and the Venezuela national team. She played college basketball for Northwest Florida State College and Oklahoma City Universit ...

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