Milica_Vukadinović

Milica Vukadinović

Milica Vukadinović

Serbian former basketball player

Milica Vukadinović (born 18 November 1968) is a Serbian former basketball player. She grew up in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where she played for ŽKK Crvena zvezda and the Yugoslavian national team.[1] She played college basketball for University of California, Berkeley[2][3][4] where she was a two time First-team All-PAC-10 selection.[5] Following her college stay, she played professionally in Germany for four seasons.[6] She became the first Serbian player to play in the WNBA when she appeared in Charlotte Sting's opener of the 1997 WNBA season on 22 June where she scored 3 points in 14 minutes.[7] That ended being her only WNBA game as a back injury that she suffered in the game ended her season.[8] In 1999, she was set to join the Los Angeles Sparks but the deal fell through due to visa problems.[9]

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