Dagbjört Dögg Karlsdóttir is an Icelandic basketball player for
Valur of the
Úrvalsdeild kvenna and a member of the
Icelandic national team. She won the
Icelandic championship in 2019 and 2021 and the
Icelandic Cup in 2019. In 2021, she was named the
Úrvalsdeild Defensive Player of the Year and in 2022, she was named to the
Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First Team. In 2018, she was named the
Úrvalsdeild Young Player of the Year.
On 28 April 2023, she won her third Icelandic championship after Valur defeated top-seeded
KeflavÃk
KeflavÃk (pronounced , meaning ''Driftwood Bay'') is a town in the Reykjanes region in southwest Iceland. It is included in the municipality of Reykjanesbær whose population as of 2016 is 15,129.
In 1995, KeflavÃk merged with nearby Njar ...
in the Úrvalsdeild finals, 3–1.
Early life
Dagbjört grew up in Reykir in
Hrútafjörður
Hrútafjörður () is a fjord in the north-west of Iceland. It is around 36 km long and lies to the south of Húnaflói
(, ) is a bay of the Iceland Sea in Northwestern Region (Iceland), Northwestern Region and Westfjords, Iceland. It is ...
where she started playing basketball with Kormákur from
Hvammstangi
Hvammstangi () is an Iceland
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.
National team career
After playing for Iceland's junior teams, Dagbjört debuted for the
Icelandic senior national team in 2017.
References
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1999 births
Living people
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Point guards
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