Mexican sport continues to break barriers at the hands of women, who in the last two decades have stood up for the country. This Monday, in a story worthy of a movie, Lou López from Guadalajara became the first Mexican basketball player to reach the WNBA.
Originally from Guadalajara, Jalisco, López Senechal, from the University of Connecticut and with an important step at Fairfield University, was selected in the Draft as the fifth overall pick and her destination at the highest level of women’s basketball will be the Dallas Wings.
Lou was born in our country, she is 100 percent Mexican, but she has traveled the world in search of her destiny: she lived in France and Ireland, shines in the United States and carries the tricolor flag.
The Mexican began her collegiate path at Fairfield, an institution she defended from 2018 to 2022. It was precisely in that last year that her talent ended up exploding.
She was named the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Division 1 Player of the Year. NCAAthe Most Valuable of the season and guided her team to its first Championship in 24 years, a feat that put her in the elite.
In that phase for the trophy, he led his university with 24 points in the Final, finishing with 603 throughout the campaign, the third-highest number in the program, so now expectations are high at the highest level.
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