D. Strautmane will continue to play in Poland next season

Latvian basketball player Digna Strautmane will continue to play in the Polish Premier League club Wroclaw “Sleza” next season, the club reports.

It has already been reported that the basketball player will spend the spring and summer in the Ringwood “Hawks” club of Australia’s second strongest league (NBL1), opening the championship on Wednesday with a victory over the Kilsyth “Cobras” (83:55). The 25-year-old Strautmane scored five points and collected seven rebounds and four assists.

“Strautmane has signed a new contract with “Sleza”. The favorite of Wroclaw fans will also play in the capital of Lower Silesia in the 2024/2025 season,” the club says. This season, Strautmane averaged 8.2 points per game for Wroclaw “Sleza” in the Polish championship, as well as 5.3 rebounds, two assists, 1.4 steals and one blocked shot.

The athlete spent the season after the rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee experienced in March 2023 in the ranks of the Greek club “Olympiakos” of Piraeus, coached by Mārtiņš Zībarts. “The season after returning to the field, after a serious injury. I think that she has not yet shown all her skills in the previous games,” says club coach Arkadiusz Rusin.

He explains that before the previous season, rehabilitation was combined with pre-season training. “Finishing the season in fourth place was an important factor in my decision-making process,” says Strautmane. “I didn’t finish my job here, we didn’t win a medal.”

She says that the fight for medals, as well as “the great relationship that has developed with everyone, especially with the people who work at the club” influenced the decision. Strautmane spent five years in the National Collegiate Sports Association (NCAA), spent the 2022 summer season in Australia, becoming NBL1 vice-champion together with the Hawks in September, but started his professional career in Europe in the Greek club Olympiakos of Piraeus coached by Mārtiņas Ziebarts, but in 2023 In March, he suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament.