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'''Salimatou Kourouma''' (born September 25, 1999 in [[Kati, Mali|Kati]]) is a forward [[basketball]] professional player who plays for [[Mali women's national basketball team]] and Arizona Wildcats.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Eurobasket |title=Salimatou Kourouma, Basketball Player, News, Stats - Eurobasket |url=https://www.eurobasket.com/index.aspx |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=Eurobasket LLC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Salimatou Kourouma - Arizona Wildcats Guard |url=https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/player/_/id/4899942/salimatou-kourouma |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=ESPN |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Salimatou Kourouma - Women's Basketball |url=https://arizonawildcats.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/salimatou-kourouma/15544 |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=University of Arizona Athletics |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Proballers |title=Salimatou Kourouma, Basketball Player |url=https://www.proballers.com/basketball/player/255694/salimatou-kourouma |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Proballers |language=en}}</ref>
'''Salimatou Kourouma''' (born September 25, 1999) is a forward [[basketball]] professional player who plays for [[Mali women's national basketball team]] and Arizona Wildcats.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Salimatou Kourouma Biography |url=http://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/player/bio/_/id/4899942/salimatou-kourouma |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=ESPN |language=en}}</ref>


== Personal life ==
== Personal life ==
Salimatou Kourouma parents are Souleymane Kourouma and Fatoumatou Guiro. She have two brothers and two sisters; Dramane and Karim, Batoma and Katiatou respectful. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Sali Kourouma - 2022-23 - Women's Basketball |url=https://lrtrojans.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/sali-kourouma/7049 |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=Little Rock Athletics |language=en}}</ref>
Salimatou Kourouma parents are Souleymane Kourouma and Fatoumatou Guiro. She has two brothers and two sisters; Dramane and Karim, Batoma and Katiatou respectively.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sali Kourouma - 2022-23 - Women's Basketball |url=https://lrtrojans.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/sali-kourouma/7049 |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=Little Rock Athletics }}</ref>


== Career history ==
== Career history ==
During Kourouma high school she played for Life Prep Academy where she earned HCAA all-state honors.<ref name=":0" />
During Kourouma high school she played for Life Prep Academy where she earned HCAA all-state honors.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Salimatou Kourouma - Women's Basketball |url=https://arizonawildcats.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/salimatou-kourouma/15544 |access-date=2024-03-24 |website=University of Arizona Athletics }}</ref>


Before she begin her college career 2020-2021, she redshirted in 2019-2020 at Grayson College and then transferred to [[Arkansas-Little Rock|Arkansas-Little rock]] in 2021-2022 where she earned Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year after getting 17.8 points in each conference games.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morales |first=Javier |date=2023-04-11 |title=Arizona adds forwards Beh & Kourouma from transfer portal {{!}} ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com |url=https://allsportstucson.com/2023/04/10/arizona-adds-forwards-beh-kourouma-from-transfer-portal/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-21 |title=Little Rock Inks Sali Kourouma to National Letter of Intent |url=https://lrtrojans.com/news/2021/4/21/womens-basketball-little-rock-inks-sali-kourouma-to-national-letter-of-intent.aspx |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Little Rock Athletics |language=en}}</ref>
Before she begin her college career 2020-2021, she redshirted in 2019-2020 at Grayson College and then transferred to [[Arkansas-Little Rock]] in 2021-2022 where she earned Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year after averaging 17.8 points per game in conference play.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Morales |first=Javier |date=2023-04-11 |title=Arizona adds forwards Beh & Kourouma from transfer portal {{!}} ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com |url=https://allsportstucson.com/2023/04/10/arizona-adds-forwards-beh-kourouma-from-transfer-portal/ |access-date=2024-03-25 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-21 |title=Little Rock Inks Sali Kourouma to National Letter of Intent |url=https://lrtrojans.com/news/2021/4/21/womens-basketball-little-rock-inks-sali-kourouma-to-national-letter-of-intent.aspx |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Little Rock Athletics }}</ref>


Kourouma started playing for the [[Arizona Wildcats]] during the 2023-2024 season.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=P. J. |date=2023-09-27 |title=Arizona basketball transfer Sali Kourouma motivated by her 'big school' opportunity |url=https://tucson.com/sports/college/basketball/wildcats/women/arizona-wildcats-basketball-sali-kourouma-mali-tucson/article_4acb139a-5c81-11ee-8b1a-078ab9e7a739.html |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Arizona Daily Star |language=en}}</ref> She scored the first wildcat basket on their win over [[Point Loma Nazarene University|Point Loma Nazarene]], 52-44.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=P. J. |date=2023-11-03 |title=New Wildcat Sali Kourouma comfortable stepping into the spotlight, helping teammates in any way |url=https://tucson.com/sports/college/basketball/wildcats/women/sali-kourouma-arizona-wildcats-basketball/article_bc0cdb56-7ab8-11ee-8a98-c3d424e9cc3b.html |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Arizona Daily Star |language=en}}</ref>
Kourouma started playing for the [[Arizona Wildcats]] during the 2023-2024 season.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=P. J. |date=2023-09-27 |title=Arizona basketball transfer Sali Kourouma motivated by her 'big school' opportunity |url=https://tucson.com/sports/college/basketball/wildcats/women/arizona-wildcats-basketball-sali-kourouma-mali-tucson/article_4acb139a-5c81-11ee-8b1a-078ab9e7a739.html |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Arizona Daily Star }}</ref> <ref>{{Cite web |last=Morales |first=Javier |date=2023-04-11 |title=Arizona adds forwards Beh & Kourouma from transfer portal {{!}} ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com |url=https://allsportstucson.com/2023/04/10/arizona-adds-forwards-beh-kourouma-from-transfer-portal/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |language=en-US}}</ref> She scored the first collegiate basket on their win over [[Point Loma Nazarene University|Point Loma Nazarene]], 52-44.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=P. J. |date=2023-11-03 |title=New Wildcat Sali Kourouma comfortable stepping into the spotlight, helping teammates in any way |url=https://tucson.com/sports/college/basketball/wildcats/women/sali-kourouma-arizona-wildcats-basketball/article_bc0cdb56-7ab8-11ee-8a98-c3d424e9cc3b.html |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=Arizona Daily Star }}</ref> Kourouma have played 13 games at Arizona Wildcats with 9.5 points per game, 3.3 rebounds per game, 0.8 assist per game, 1.2 steals per game, 1.2 personal fouls and 1.4 turnovers in 21 minutes per game before been transferred to [[Oregon Ducks women's basketball|Oregon Duck's women's basketball]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doss |first=K. |date=2024-04-20 |title=Former Arizona forward Sali Kourouma transfers to Oregon women's basketball |url=https://www.azdesertswarm.com/basketball/2024/4/20/24135946/arizona-womens-basketball-salimatou-kourouma-commits-oregon |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Arizona Desert Swarm |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon women's basketball secures commitment from Arizona transfer Salimatou Kourouma |url=https://www.registerguard.com/story/sports/college/basketball/2024/04/20/oregon-womens-basketball-arizona-transfer-wing-salimatou-kourouma/73399846007/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=The Register-Guard |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-20 |title=Oregon women's basketball secures commitment from Arizona transfer Salimatou Kourouma |url=https://sports.yahoo.com/oregon-womens-basketball-secures-commitment-220314212.html |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Yahoo Sports |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ducks land wing player Sali Kourouma from Arizona in transfer portal |url=https://247sports.com/college/providence/article/salimatou-kourouma-oregon-womens-basketball--230583523/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=247Sports |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon women's basketball is signing transfer guard Salimatou Kourouma from Arizona |url=https://www.happyadv.us/usa/iod6249xi154/ |access-date=2024-04-23 |website=Happy ADV |date=20 April 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref>


== Mali National Team ==
== National team career ==
Kourouma started her basketball career with Mali national youth team on 2015 during the Fiba Africa U16 women's and started playing with Mali national senior team on 2022 during [[FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup|Fiba Women's Basketball World Cup]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Salimatou Kourouma - Player Profile |url=https://www.fiba.basketball/en/player/218449/Salimatou-Kourouma |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=FIBA.basketball |language=en}}</ref>
Kourouma started her basketball career with Mali national youth team on 2015 during the FIBA Africa U16 women's and started playing with Mali national senior team at the [[2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Salimatou Kourouma - Player Profile |url=https://www.fiba.basketball/en/player/218449/Salimatou-Kourouma |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=FIBA.basketball }}</ref>


She fight with Kamite Elisabeth Dabou during the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup in Sydney, Australia after their 81-68 defeat against Serbia. On Tuesday 27th September 2022 the players apologize for their fight. According to them, they said "it was not our intention and we were frustrated because of the loss. We are here to apologize to the world of basketball and FIBA Word Cup".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramsay |first=George |date=2022-09-27 |title=Mali basketball players apologize after mixed zone fight |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/sport/mali-basketball-world-cup-fight-spt-intl/index.html |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=CNN |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-27 |title=Mali players apologize for fighting; FIBA investigating |url=https://apnews.com/article/sports-africa-basketball-mali-b5f27840457df986e4dbbd354c141129 |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-27 |title=Mali's Kourouma, Dabou fight following loss to Serbia |url=https://nypost.com/2022/09/27/malis-kourouma-dabou-fight-following-loss-to-serbia/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Owusu |first=Eric |date=2022-09-27 |title=Mali players fight each other at Basketball World Cup |url=https://www.adomonline.com/mali-players-fight-each-other-at-basketball-world-cup/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=Adomonline.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-09-26 |title=Women's Basketball World Cup: Fiba launch investigation after fight breaks out among Mali players |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/63039488 |access-date=2024-03-26 |work=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mintah |first=Yaw Loic |date=2022-09-27 |title=[VIDEO]:Malian teammates fight as team crashes out of Women’s Basketball World Cup |url=https://citisportsonline.com/2022/09/27/malian-teammates-fight-as-team-crashes-out-of-womens-basketball-world-cup/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=Citi Sports Online |language=en-US}}</ref>
She fought with Kamite Elisabeth Dabou during the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]] after their 81-68 defeat against [[Serbia]]. On 27 September 2022 the players apologized for their fight. According to them, they said "it was not our intention and we were frustrated because of the loss. We are here to apologize to the world of basketball and FIBA World Cup".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ramsay |first=George |date=2022-09-27 |title=Mali basketball players apologize after mixed zone fight |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/sport/mali-basketball-world-cup-fight-spt-intl/index.html |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=CNN }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-27 |title=Mali players apologize for fighting; FIBA investigating |url=https://apnews.com/article/sports-africa-basketball-mali-b5f27840457df986e4dbbd354c141129 |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=AP News }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-09-27 |title=Mali's Kourouma, Dabou fight following loss to Serbia |url=https://nypost.com/2022/09/27/malis-kourouma-dabou-fight-following-loss-to-serbia/ |access-date=2024-03-26 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Owusu |first=Eric |date=2022-09-27 |title=Mali players fight each other at Basketball World Cup |url=https://www.adomonline.com/mali-players-fight-each-other-at-basketball-world-cup/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=Adomonline.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-09-26 |title=Women's Basketball World Cup: Fiba launch investigation after fight breaks out among Mali players |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/africa/63039488 |access-date=2024-03-26 |work=BBC Sport |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Mintah |first=Yaw Loic |date=2022-09-27 |title=[VIDEO]:Malian teammates fight as team crashes out of Women's Basketball World Cup |url=https://citisportsonline.com/2022/09/27/malian-teammates-fight-as-team-crashes-out-of-womens-basketball-world-cup/ |access-date=2024-03-26 |website=Citi Sports Online }}</ref>


== References ==
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== External links ==
* [https://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Salimatou-Kourouma/367195?Women=1 Salimatou Kourouma] at [[Eurobasket.com]]
* [https://www.proballers.com/basketball/player/255694/salimatou-kourouma Salimatou Kourouma] at Proballers
* [https://arizonawildcats.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/salimatou-kourouma/15544 Arizona Wildcats bio]
* [https://lrtrojans.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/sali-kourouma/7049 Little Rock Trojans bio]


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Salimatou Kourouma
Personal information
Born (1999-09-25) 25 September 1999 (age 24)
Kati, Mali
NationalityMalian
Listed height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Career information
High schoolLife Prep Academy
CollegeGrayson (2019–2021)
Little Rock (2021–2023)
Arizona (2023–present)
PositionForward

Salimatou Kourouma (born September 25, 1999) is a forward basketball professional player who plays for Mali women's national basketball team and Arizona Wildcats.[1]

Personal life[edit]

Salimatou Kourouma parents are Souleymane Kourouma and Fatoumatou Guiro. She has two brothers and two sisters; Dramane and Karim, Batoma and Katiatou respectively.[2]

Career history[edit]

During Kourouma high school she played for Life Prep Academy where she earned HCAA all-state honors.[3]

Before she begin her college career 2020-2021, she redshirted in 2019-2020 at Grayson College and then transferred to Arkansas-Little Rock in 2021-2022 where she earned Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year after averaging 17.8 points per game in conference play.[4][5]

Kourouma started playing for the Arizona Wildcats during the 2023-2024 season.[6] [7] She scored the first collegiate basket on their win over Point Loma Nazarene, 52-44.[8] Kourouma have played 13 games at Arizona Wildcats with 9.5 points per game, 3.3 rebounds per game, 0.8 assist per game, 1.2 steals per game, 1.2 personal fouls and 1.4 turnovers in 21 minutes per game before been transferred to Oregon Duck's women's basketball.[9][10][11][12][13]

National team career[edit]

Kourouma started her basketball career with Mali national youth team on 2015 during the FIBA Africa U16 women's and started playing with Mali national senior team at the 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.[14]

She fought with Kamite Elisabeth Dabou during the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup in Sydney, Australia after their 81-68 defeat against Serbia. On 27 September 2022 the players apologized for their fight. According to them, they said "it was not our intention and we were frustrated because of the loss. We are here to apologize to the world of basketball and FIBA World Cup".[15][16][17][18][19][20]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Salimatou Kourouma Biography". ESPN. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  2. ^ "Sali Kourouma - 2022-23 - Women's Basketball". Little Rock Athletics. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
  3. ^ "Salimatou Kourouma - Women's Basketball". University of Arizona Athletics. Retrieved 2024-03-24.
  4. ^ Morales, Javier (2023-04-11). "Arizona adds forwards Beh & Kourouma from transfer portal | ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com". Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  5. ^ "Little Rock Inks Sali Kourouma to National Letter of Intent". Little Rock Athletics. 2021-04-21. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  6. ^ Brown, P. J. (2023-09-27). "Arizona basketball transfer Sali Kourouma motivated by her 'big school' opportunity". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  7. ^ Morales, Javier (2023-04-11). "Arizona adds forwards Beh & Kourouma from transfer portal | ALLSPORTSTUCSON.com". Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  8. ^ Brown, P. J. (2023-11-03). "New Wildcat Sali Kourouma comfortable stepping into the spotlight, helping teammates in any way". Arizona Daily Star. Retrieved 2024-03-25.
  9. ^ Doss, K. (2024-04-20). "Former Arizona forward Sali Kourouma transfers to Oregon women's basketball". Arizona Desert Swarm. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  10. ^ "Oregon women's basketball secures commitment from Arizona transfer Salimatou Kourouma". The Register-Guard. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  11. ^ "Oregon women's basketball secures commitment from Arizona transfer Salimatou Kourouma". Yahoo Sports. 2024-04-20. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  12. ^ "Ducks land wing player Sali Kourouma from Arizona in transfer portal". 247Sports. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  13. ^ "Oregon women's basketball is signing transfer guard Salimatou Kourouma from Arizona". Happy ADV. 20 April 2024. Retrieved 2024-04-23.
  14. ^ "Salimatou Kourouma - Player Profile". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  15. ^ Ramsay, George (2022-09-27). "Mali basketball players apologize after mixed zone fight". CNN. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  16. ^ "Mali players apologize for fighting; FIBA investigating". AP News. 2022-09-27. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  17. ^ "Mali's Kourouma, Dabou fight following loss to Serbia". 2022-09-27. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  18. ^ Owusu, Eric (2022-09-27). "Mali players fight each other at Basketball World Cup". Adomonline.com. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  19. ^ "Women's Basketball World Cup: Fiba launch investigation after fight breaks out among Mali players". BBC Sport. 2022-09-26. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  20. ^ Mintah, Yaw Loic (2022-09-27). "[VIDEO]:Malian teammates fight as team crashes out of Women's Basketball World Cup". Citi Sports Online. Retrieved 2024-03-26.

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