Þóra Kristín Jónsdóttir


Þóra Kristín Jónsdóttir is an Icelandic basketball player who plays the point guard position for Haukar in the Úrvalsdeild kvenna and the Icelandic national basketball team. She won the Icelandic championship with Haukar in 2018 while also being named to the Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First Team and finishing third in the selection of the Icelandic Women's Basketball Player of the Year.

Career

Þóra came up through the junior programs of Haukar and played her first senior game in 2012. On 22 February 2014 she won the Icelandic Basketball Cup after Haukar defeated Snæfell in the Cup finals. On 3 October 2015, she helped Haukar win the Icelandic Company Cup, defeating Keflavík in the final.
In 2016, she was loaned to Skallagrímur where she went on to win 1. deild kvenna. In 9 regular season and playoffs games for Skallagrímur, Þóra averaged 8.3 points and 3.9 rebounds per game.
On 30 April 2018, Þóra won the national championship after Haukar defeated Valur 3–2 in Úrvalsdeild finals. She was instrumental to Haukar's victory in game 3 of the series, scoring 22 points and shooting 4 of 7 from three-point range.
On 28 November 2018, Þóra posted a triple-double with 23 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists in a victory against Breiðablik.
In December 2018, she finished third in the selection of the Icelandic Women's Basketball Player of the Year, behind Helena Sverrisdóttir and winner Hildur Björg Kjartansdóttir.
On 17 December 2018, she went down with an injury in a game against Grindavík in the Icelandic Basketball Cup which was initially feared to be a ruptured achilles tendon. Later tests revealed that the tendon had not ruptured. She returned to action on 6 January 2019, posting a triple-double of 13 points, 11 assists and 11 rebounds in a victory against Skallagrímur. Þóra Kristín averaged 13.1 points, 6.2 rebounds and 5.9 assists during 2018–19 season and was named to the Úrvalsdeild Domestic All-First Team for the second straight year.

Icelandic national team

Þóra was first selected to the Icelandic national basketball team in 2017 and was selected for its games in the EuroBasket Women 2019 qualification.

Awards, titles and accomplishments

Individual awards