Sonja Vasić (; sr-cyr, Соња Петровић Васић, born 18 February 1989) is a Serbian former professional

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

player. Standing at , she played at the

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position. She represented the

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, and is a current member of the FIBA Central Board.

Playing career

Before she came to the WNBA, she played for

Crvena zvezda Fudbalski klub Crvena zvezda ( sr-cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Црвена звезда, lit=Red Star Football Club), commonly referred to as Crvena zvezda () and colloquially referred to as Red Star Belgrade in anglophone media, is a ...

, UB-Barça,

Tango Bourges Basket Tango Bourges Basket (formerly ''Cercle Jean-Macé Bourges Basket'') is a French professional women's basketball club from Bourges. Bourges was the first French team to win a FIBA women's competition, the 1995 Ronchetti Cup. So began the club' ...

and

Spartak Moscow Region Women's Basketball Club Sparta&K is a professional women's basketball team based in Vidnoye, Russia that plays in FIBA’s EuroLeague Women. History It won the 2005–06 EuroCup Women and the 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2009–10 Euro ...

National team career

Vasić was a member of the Serbian national basketball team at the

EuroBasket 2015 EuroBasket 2015 was the 39th edition of the EuroBasket championship that was organized by FIBA Europe. It was co-hosted by Croatia, France, Germany, and Latvia, making it the first EuroBasket held in more than one country. It started on 5 Sept ...

and at EuroBasket 2021 where they won the gold medal, they also qualified for the

2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

, first in the history for the Serbian team where they won bronze medal.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

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Playoffs

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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Career achievements and awards

EuroLeague The EuroLeague is a European men's professional basketball club competition. The league is widely recognised as the top-tier and the most prestigious men's basketball league in Europe. The league consists of 20 teams, of which 16 are given lon ...

champion: 3 (with

: 2008–09, 2009–10; with

USK Praha USK Praha (, University Sports Club Prague), formerly known as Slavia VŠ Praha (), is a Czech Republic, Czech professional basketball Club (organization), club that was founded in 1953 in the city of Prague. USK Praha plays in the National Bas ...

: 2014–15) *

FIBA Europe SuperCup Women The SuperCup Women (or Women SuperCup) is a super cup competition organized by FIBA Europe and contested between the winners of EuroLeague Women and EuroCup Women. History The first edition of the Cup took place on October 20, 2009, and wa ...

winner: 2 (with

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

; with

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

) * Czech League champion: 3 (with

: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17) *

French League The French League (: "French League for Purge, purging, mutual aid (politics), mutual aid and European integration, European collaboration") was a Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, collaborationist French movement founded by Pier ...

champion: 1 (with CJM Bourges: 2007–08) *

French Cup The Coupe de France (), also known in English as the French Cup or less commonly as the France Cup, is the premier knockout cup competition in French football organised by the French Football Federation (FFF). It was first held in 1917 and is ...

winner: 1 (with CJM Bourges: 2007–08) * Federation Tournament winner: 1 (with CJM Bourges: 2007–08) ;Individual * EuroBasket Most Valuable Player –

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

EuroBasket All-Tournament Team The FIBA EuroBasket All-Tournament Team, or FIBA EuroBasket All-Star Five, is the FIBA Europe award that is bestowed upon the five best players of each FIBA EuroBasket tournament. Pau Gasol holds the record for the most selections in the All-E ...

–

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

* Serbian Player of the Year – 2016, 2019, 2021 * Europe Young Player of the Year Award – 2007

Personal life

In July 2019, Petrović married

Miloš Vasić Miloš Vasić ( sr-Cyrl, Милош Васић, born 10 January 1991) is a Serbian rower. He represented Serbia at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. He competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the men's coxless pair together with Martin Mačk ...

, a Serbian

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References

External links

Sonja Petrovic
at basketball-reference.com
Sonja Vasic
at eurobasket.com * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vasic, Sonja 1989 births Living people Basketball players from Belgrade Basketball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Chicago Sky players Competitors at the 2009 Mediterranean Games European champions for Serbia Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Serbia Olympic basketball players for Serbia Olympic bronze medalists for Serbia Olympic medalists in basketball Phoenix Mercury players San Antonio Silver Stars draft picks Serbian expatriate basketball people in the Czech Republic Serbian expatriate basketball people in France Serbian expatriate basketball people in Russia Serbian expatriate basketball people in Spain Serbian expatriate basketball people in the United States Serbian women's basketball players 21st-century Serbian sportswomen Small forwards ŽKK Crvena zvezda players Women's National Basketball Association players from Serbia Mediterranean Games medalists in basketball Serbia and Montenegro women's basketball players