Paula Carrasco (born January 17, 1994) is a Chilean basketball player from Valparaíso city. She plays in club Sportiva Italiana de Valparaíso and is part of the Chile women's national team.
Biography
editShe comes from Valparaíso and was born on January 17, 1994.[1] She is the youngest of four brothers.[2] At the age of 8, she started to play basketball in Brisas club from La Florida.[2]
She studied and graduated from University of Chile in environmental chemistry.[3]
She is a player from club Sportiva Italiana de Valparaíso, at the position of shooting guard and occasionally point guard[3]
Since February 2023, she has been working in the climate change department of the ministry for the environment, in the section of mitigation and transparency.[3] More specifically, she works on the inventory of greenhouse gases in Chile.[3]
In November 2023, she participated in the Santiago Panamericans Games with the basketball national team.[3] At that time, she shared the difficulty of finding balance between motherhood (she has a son), her professional career and high performance sport.[3]
In September 2024, president Gabriel Boric and herself made their relationship public.[4]
References
edit- ^ Eurobasket. "Paula Carrasco, Basketball Player, News, Stats - latinbasket". Eurobasket LLC. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ a b "Quién es Paula Carrasco, la posible nueva pareja de Boric". Radio Pauta 100.5 (in Spanish). 2024-01-22. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ a b c d e f Lucay, Carlos González (2024-01-22). "La basquetbolista que lucha contra el cambio climático y va por su sueño en Santiago 2023". La Tercera. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
- ^ Martínez, Roberto (2024-09-17). "Quién es Paula Carrasco, la nueva pareja del Presidente Gabriel Boric que lo acompañó en el Parque O'Higgins". La Tercera. Retrieved 2024-09-18.