Jelena Brooks (; sr-cyr, Јелена Брукс, ; born 28 April 1989) is a Serbian professional
women's basketball
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player for
Sopron Basket. Standing at , she plays at the
power forward
The power forward (PF), also known as the four, is one of the five traditional Basketball positions, positions in a regulation basketball game. Traditionally, power forwards have played a role similar to center (basketball), centers and are typi ...
position. She also represents the
Serbian national basketball team.
She formerly played for the
WNBA's
Washington Mystics
The Washington Mystics are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Mystics compete in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) as a member of the Eastern Conference (WNBA), Eastern Conference. The team was ...
. She was a second-leading scorer of
2012–13 EuroLeague Women.
International career
She represented Serbian national basketball team at the
EuroBasket 2015 in Budapest where they won the gold medal, and qualified for the
2016 Olympics, first in the history for the Serbian team.
Achievements
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Euroleague:
2010-11 runner-up with
WBC Spartak Moscow Region
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EuroCup:
2013-14 runner-up with
Dynamo Kursk
Personal life
Her mother is
Ljubica Milovanović, former basketball player, and her brother is
Nenad, basketball coach.
She is married to David Brooks.
See also
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List of Serbian WNBA players
References
External links
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Jelena Milovanovicat fiba.com
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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 for Serbia
Olympic bronze medalists for Serbia
Olympic medalists in basketball
Power forwards
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
21st-century Serbian sportswomen
Basketball players from Kragujevac
Washington Mystics draft picks
ŽKK Šumadija Kragujevac players
ŽKK Vojvodina players
Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Serbia and Montenegro women's basketball players
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