Maria Riera Soriano '20 Recruiting Profile

I was born in Barcelona, a big city in Spain, where at the age of 10 I started playing basketball, the sport that I really love and enjoy playing it. I enjoyed learning different languages as Catalan, Spanish, English, French and German which I speak. I had the opportunity to travel over Europe, visiting different places and knowing more about the different cultures. In Spain, I played basketball starting in a club for 3 years and then in one of the better clubs in Catalonia, Club Joventut Badalona, a team which the superior masculine team is in the most important Spanish basketball league.

2 years ago, my family and I moved to the United States, Georgia, because my dad’s company moved him here, and my passion for basketball never stopped. I play basketball on my high school team. Basketball in my opinion is not only a sport where you have fun, basketball is a daily life thing. You have to work to make the team, you learn, not only in sports view about life and its lessons, but you also need to have passion and dedicate time and of course work hard to get wherever you want to get. I believe I can bring all of these things to a school/program.