Bentley re-signs at UMMC Yekaterinburg

Alex Bentley

UMMC Yekaterinburg (PBL) confirmed in their roster 33-year old Belarusian-American ex-international point guard Alex Bentley (173cm-1990, college: Penn State) for new 2024-25 season. She is the second foreign player in the roster as Portuguese Jovana Nogic signed here earlier.
She has played there for the last three seasons. She helped them to win the PBL title and the Supercup. 2023-24 was a great season as she was voted Eurobasket.com All-Russian PBL Finals MVP and League Player of the Week.
In 2013 she was drafted by Atlanta Dream (WNBA) in second round (13th overall).
She graduated from Pennsylvania State University and it will be her twelfth (!!!) season in pro basketball.
Bentley also represented Belarus at the European Championship (FIBA EuroBasket) in Serbia and Latvia five years ago. During this event she scored an average of 11.7 points per game and had 4.7 rebounds per game.
She is quite experienced player. Her career allowed her to visit four different continents, while she played in seven different countries. Bentley tasted the life as a pro basketball player in Europe, Asia, Latin America and of course North America. She has played previously professionally in Brazil (Gloria do Goita), France (Tarbes), Israel (Elitzur Holon), Turkey (Adana ASKI Mersin and Mersin), WNBA (Connecticut Sun and LV Aces), Russia (Dynamo Kursk and Nadezhda) and South Korea (Hana 1Q Bucheon).

UMMC Yekaterinburg roster for 2024-25:

Guards:
Jovana Nogic
Kseniia Levchenko

Forward:
Anastasiia Kosu

Center:
Zhosselina Maiga

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