Jelena Brooks (; sr-cyr, Јелена Брукс, ; born April 28, 1989) is a Serbian professional

women's basketball Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It began being played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large part via women's college compet ...

player for UNIQA Sopron. Standing at , she plays at the

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position. She also represents the

Serbian national basketball team Serbian may refer to: * someone or something related to Serbia, a country in Southeastern Europe * someone or something related to the Serbs, a South Slavic people * Serbian language * Serbian names See also * * * Old Serbian (disambiguation) ...

. She formerly played for the WNBA's

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. She was a second-leading scorer of

2012–13 EuroLeague Women The 2012–13 season is the 17th edition of Europe's premier basketball tournament for women – EuroLeague Women since it was rebranded to its current format. Regular season Regular season groups started on 24 October 2012 and finished on 6 Febr ...

International career

She represented Serbian national basketball team at the

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in Budapest where they won the gold medal, and qualified for the

2016 Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro ...

, first in the history for the Serbian team.

Achievements

* Euroleague: 2010-11 runner-up with

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* EuroCup: 2013-14 runner-up with

Dynamo Kursk WBC Dynamo Kursk (russian: ЖБК «Динамо» Курск) is a Russian women's basketball club from Kursk playing in the Russian Premier League. They won their first FIBA Eurocup title in 2012. In the 2016–17 season, Kursk won the EuroLea ...

Personal life

Her mother is Ljubica Milovanović, former basketball player, and her brother is

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, basketball coach. She is married to David Brooks.

References

External links

Jelena Milovanović
at eurobasket.com

at fiba.com

at fibaeurope.com 1989 births Living people Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Beşiktaş women's basketball players European champions for Serbia Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic basketball players of Serbia Olympic bronze medalists for Serbia Olympic medalists in basketball Power forwards (basketball) Serbian expatriate basketball people in Hungary Serbian expatriate basketball people in Poland Serbian expatriate basketball people in Russia Serbian expatriate basketball people in Spain Serbian expatriate basketball people in Turkey Serbian expatriate basketball people in the United States Serbian women's basketball players Sportspeople from Kragujevac Washington Mystics draft picks ŽKK Šumadija Kragujevac players ŽKK Vojvodina players Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics {{Serbia-basketball-bio-stub