Elena Delle Donne was born on the 5th September 1989, in Wilmington, Delaware USA, and is a professional basketball player, in the positions of guard or forward playing for the team of Chicago Sky Active in the WNBA league since 2013.
How rich is the professional basketball player? Authoritative sources estimate that the overall size of Elena Delle Donne’s net worth is over $400,000, as of the data presented in the middle of 2016.
Elena Delle Donne Net Worth $400,000
To begin with, Delle Donne earned national recognition as a player in high school, leading the Ursuline Academy in Wilmington (Delaware) to their third consecutive state championship. She became a McDonald’s All-American, while also playing in the volleyball team which won the championship of high schools and IAWD state.
With such a successful high school career, Delle Donne received a basketball scholarship from the University of Connecticut. However, she left the team for the personal reasons in 2008, but at the same time, Elena announced she was going to enrol into the University of Delaware and was going to join the volleyball team without a scholarship. Her team finished with a 19-16 record, they won the conference tournament, achieving a place in the tournament of the NCAA , but lost to Oregon in the first round. In summer of 2009, Delle Donne turned back to basketball and joined the team of Fightin ‘Blue Hens of Delaware, and for her excellent performance that year went on to win the Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards. In her second year, Elena was diagnosed with Lyme disease and could not play almost half a season. She fought hard for the rest of the time, and helped the team reach the conference finals.
In 2011, Delle Donne was selected to join the women’s basketball team that represented the USA in college games held in Shenzhen, China. Delle Donne led the team to the gold medal with a perfect record of averaging 15.7 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists. In her third year in Delaware, she was the top scorer of the nation, finishing the season with an average of 28.1 points per game. In the 2012-2013 season, Delle Donne continued struggling with Lyme disease, lost several games because of this, however, she was able to be a leader in points and rebounds in this season. In autumn 2012, Elena obtained her degree in Human Services from the University of Delaware.
For the talent shown in college, her name was shuffled as one of the top three choices for the WNBA draft in 2013, and so it proved as Delle Donne was chosen second in the first round by the team of Chicago Sky. Delle Donne subsequently achieved enough popularity in her rookie year in the WNBA tht she was voted to participate in the WNBA All-Star Game 2013, the first rookie in the history of the league, but unfortunately she missed this game because of an injury. She was also named the Rookie of the Year WNBA. Her net worth was rising steadily.
She became WNBA All-Star three consecutive years 2013, 2014 and 2015. Moreover, she was named to the All-WNBA First Team and MVP in 2015. Talking about her international career, she was selected to play in the World Championship 2014, but she missed this also, because of a back injury. Hopefully, the injuries will not ruin her plans to lead the USA team in the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016.
Finally, in the personal life of basketball player Delle Donne, she is still single.
