Helen Luz

Helen Cristina Santos Luz, known as Helen, is a retired Brazilian professional basketball player, born on 23 November 1972 in Araçatuba. She was a starting guard on the strong Brazilian national teams of the 1990s and early 2000s, was world champion at the 1994 FIBA World Championship for Women and won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She also played for the Washington Mystics of the WNBA from 2001 to 2003 and for several clubs in the Spanish Liga Femenina before retiring in 2011. Since then she has worked as a television commentator and become a vice president of the Brazilian women's basketball league.