Dagoberto Miguel Peña Rincon (born 14 June 1988) is a Dominican professional

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player. He plays for the Dominican national basketball team and

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High school

Peña was a promising baseball

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with a 90-mph fastball before switching to basketball. He left the Dominican Republic to attend a prep school in

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before switching to Charlotte High School. In his senior year, he averaged 20 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists.

College career

Peña played college basketball for the Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team, in his freshman year, he averaged 4.7 points, 2.0 rebounds and 0.8 assist. In his sophomore year, he averaged 7.3 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.8 assists. In his Junior year, he averaged 7.2 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.1 assists. In his senior year, he averaged 6 points, 1.5 rebounds and 0.9 assist.

Professional career

Peña played for the Argentine side Centro Juventud Sionista in the 2014–15 season, he averaged 13.3 points, 1.8 rebounds and 1 assist. He moved to the Spanish side Básquet Coruña in the

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, he averaged 9 points, 2.2 rebounds and 0.8 assist. He played in the 2016

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for

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, he averaged 3 points, 0.7 rebound and 0.3 assist. In the 2016–17 season, he moved to the

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, where averaged 17.5 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.3 assists. In the same season, he moved back to Básquet Coruña, he averaged 16 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.5 assist. He moved to

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in the 2017–18 season, he averaged 4 points, 1 rebound and 0.8 assist. He played for

in the

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, he averaged 2.2 points, 1.7 rebounds and 0.9 assists. In the 2018–19 season, he moved to the Lithuania side

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, where he averaged 10 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists. he moved back to

in the same season and he averaged 4 points. He also played for

in the

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, he averaged 2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.5 assists. He moved to the

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in the 2019–20 season.

National team career

Peña represented the

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at the 2015

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in Puerto Rico, he averaged 4 points, 3 rebounds and 0.5 assist. He also played in the

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, where he averaged 1 point, 0.6 rebound and 0.2 assist. He participated in the

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, he averaged 2.7 points, 0.7 rebound and 0.7 assist. He played in the

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in China, where he averaged 1.6 points, 0.2 rebound and 0.6 assist.

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