Julie Allemand (born 7 July 1996) is a Belgian professional

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player for the

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of the

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(WNBA) and for Fenerbahçe of the Turkish Women's Basketball Super League. In the 2016 WNBA draft, she was selected by the

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in the third round. She was also a member of the Belgian national team that won the

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and

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championship.

Career

WNBA career

Indiana Fever (2020)

Allemand was drafted by the

in the third round of the 2016 WNBA draft. She spent 2016–19 playing in Europe before joining the Fever for the 2020 season. She had a successful rookie season, recording the second-most assists per game in the league (5.8). She was named to the 2020 AP All-Rookie team. She sat out of the 2021 season, citing mental health struggles and burnout after the Olympics.

Chicago Sky (2022)

Ahead of the 2022 season, Allemand was traded to the

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as part of a three-team deal. Allemand opted out of the 2023 season to focus on her commitments with the Belgium national team.

Los Angeles Sparks (2025–present)

On 19 February 2024, Allemand was traded along with

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and a

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third round pick to the

in exchange for the eighth pick in the

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. She missed the 2024 season recovering from an injured right ankle.

International career

She participated at the

2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup The 2018 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup, the 18th edition of FIBA's premier international tournament for women's national basketball teams, was held in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain from 22 to 30 September 2018. This was the first edition to ...

. Allemand represented Belgium at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She was awarded as a member of the EuroBasket All-Star Five in

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 ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

with Belgium ending third in 2021, and winning the 2023 and 2025 tournaments.

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

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Playoffs

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Personal life

Allemand is openly

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Honours

Club

Castors Braine

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: 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 * Belgian Cup: 2015, 2017

ASVEL Féminin

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: 2019, 2023 * Match des Champions: 2019 *

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Montpellier

* French Cup: 2021

Fenerbahçe

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: 2024–25 * Turkish Presidential Cup: 2024

National Team

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* Belgian Sports team of the Year: 2023

Individual

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FOJE Golden medal:

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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MVP:

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

* Basketfeminin Belgian Promise: 2014 * Belgian Promise of the Year: 2015 * All-Star Five FIBA U20

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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 ...

* Belgian Player of the Year: 2016 * French League All-Star Five: 2018-19, 2020-21 *

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* All-Star Five

References

External links

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