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Chanelle Molina confident of WNBA chances after season in Swedish league

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Camille B. Naredo, ABS-CBN News 

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style="display:flex;flex-direction:column;flex-grow:1;justify-content:center;margin-bottom:24px"><div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:4px;flex-grow:0;height:14px;margin-bottom:6px;width:224px"> </div><div style="background-color:#F4F4F4;border-radius:4px;flex-grow:0;height:14px;width:144px"> </div></div><div style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CLC0r-PF54C/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Chanelle Molina (@chanellemolina_)</a></div></div></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://www.instagram.com/embed.js" type="text/javascript"></script><br/>MANILA, Philippines -- After a heartbreaking experience in the 2020 WNBA Draft, Filipino-American guard Chanelle Molina has found another path into the top women&#x27;s basketball league in the world.</p><p>Molina went undrafted last year after a strong career in Washington State University, where she put up 12.7 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 4.0 assists per game in her four-year stint. The 5-foot-9 guard started all 30 games as a senior for the Cougars, and earned honorable mentions to the Pac-12&#x27;s All-Conference and Defensive Teams.</p><p>In an interview with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CLUwYX3hydt/">FilAmNation Select</a>, Molina recalled getting attention from the Connecticut Sun during the WNBA Draft process.</p><p>&quot;They actually called me beforehand, and they were thinking about drafting me. So I was like, kind of in their list of people to draft,&quot; she said. </p><p>&quot;I had really high hopes of being drafted by them. Come draft day and I don&#x27;t hear my name getting called,&quot; she added.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/02/17/21/wnba-bound-chanelle-molina-wants-to-play-for-ph-when-time-is-right">READ: WNBA-bound Chanelle Molina wants to play for PH &#x27;when time is right&#x27;</a></li></ul><p>It was a massive blow to Molina, who admitted to feeling &quot;a lot of disappointment, a lot of sadness, anger&quot; after the WNBA Draft. </p><p>To compound her woes, the COVID-19 pandemic kept her from being able to play the game that she loved. Molina instead settled on working out and doing drills by herself.</p><p>Yet she also never gave up hope, and she eventually received a contract to play in Sweden&#x27;s DamLigan for the Norrkoping Dolphins. </p><p>&quot;I felt like I was in a good position, &#x27;cause I&#x27;ve been training and doing stuff on my own, and I was ready to just play basketball,&quot; said Molina.</p><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen" frameBorder="0" height="100%" id="ivsplayer01" scrolling="no" src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/html/iframe-src.html?iframeid=ivsplayer01&amp;key=e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603&amp;spid=3001339&amp;vid=1623323" width="100%"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div><p>Molina was still in the midst of her season in Sweden when she received a call-up to the Indiana Fever&#x27;s training camp team. </p><p>Marianne Stanley, the Indiana coach, credited Molina&#x27;s superb career in Washington State as well as her breakout season in Sweden as the reasons that they signed the Fil-Am guard to a training camp contract.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/02/09/21/wnba-fil-am-chanelle-molina-signed-by-indiana-to-training-camp-contract">READ: Fil-Am Chanelle Molina signed by Indiana to training camp contract</a></li></ul><p>&quot;She is a skilled and versatile guard who will bring high energy and competitiveness to our training camp. She is having a great year overseas in Sweden this season because of how she has continued to improve,&quot; Stanley said of Molina. </p><p>Molina helped steer Norrkoping to a 10-6 win-loss record in the DamLigan, and she is currently averaging 17.6 points, 6.3 rebounds, and 4.1 assists per game. </p><p>The guard said her experience in the DamLigan can only help her as she tries to secure a spot in Indiana&#x27;s regular season roster.</p><p>&quot;Just cleaning up my game,&quot; she said of what she has done in Sweden. &quot;Coming off the pick and rolls, making the right reads, just cleaning up my game in those types of situations is gonna help me play at the next level.&quot;</p><p>And while she remains in Sweden for now, Molina is already relishing the chance to prove herself in the WNBA after the disappointment of last year. </p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s my chance to prove them wrong,&quot; she said. &quot;(I) just can&#x27;t wait to show out.&quot;</p><p>At the moment, however, Molina&#x27;s focus remains on their campaign in the DamLigan. Norrkoping is currently fifth in the standings and she wants to make a deep run into the playoffs.</p><p>&quot;That&#x27;s on my bucket list. I wanna win this league. I wanna win the Swedish league,&quot; she said.</p><div><strong>Related video: </strong></div><figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gYPOY43RTAo?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>

<p>After a heartbreaking experience in the 2020 WNBA Draft, Filipino-American guard Chanelle Molina has found another path into the league.<br /> </p>

After a heartbreaking experience in the 2020 WNBA Draft, Filipino-American guard Chanelle Molina has found another path into the league.

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Chanelle Molina confident of WNBA chances after season in Swedish league

Camille B. Naredo,

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Published Feb 18, 2021 04:14 PM PHT

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