Eleanna Christinaki is a Greek-Cypriot professional basketball player. She has been selected for the womens senior national team ever since she was 17 years old and,since then she has acquired 38 caps for her country. She is the second youngest member to ever be selected for the womens senior national team. It is also notable to mention that she has captained the U-20 national team as well.
Club career
Christinaki moved at Panathinaikos, in 2011. She stayed three years at the greens, and she won the Greek Women's Basketball League during 2012–13 season. She was invited at age of 17 in the senior Greek national team. She is the second youngest player ever to the national team. 2013 2014 and 2015 she got the award for the best young player in Greece. She has been in the best five valuable young players in Greece three times. Christinaki, also played with Athinaikos which have won Eurocup, during 2014–15 season. Christinaki playing with Athinaikos women's basketball, was MVP at Greek Basketball Championship for junior women.In her Athinaikos career she averaged 15 points per game and 5 rebounds per game.
College career
In 2015 Christinaki began her college career as a member of the Florida Gators women's basketball team. During her first season she scored 10,4 points per game in 31 games. She has also scored in double-figures 17 times, and recorded 2 double-doubles. She has been voted to the best freshman team in SEC and preseason first team in SEC conference. In her sophomore season, Christinaki played 9 games for the Gators where she averaged 17,6 points per game. In December 2016 she announced she would be leaving the Gators. In January 2017 Christinaki announced she would become a member of the Maryland Terrapins women's basketball team which at that time they were ranked 3 in the nation. In her lone season with the Maryland Terrapins, Christinaki averaged 11,8 points and 4,6 rebound in 22 games. In her first game, Christinaki scored 32 points off the bench in a 113–49 victory over Coppin State and she is the first Maryland player to score 23 points in a debut. She also scored 26 points against conference rival Ohio state in a 99–69 home victory. On 23 June 2018 Christinaki announced she would be forgoing her senior season to play professionally such as she was always going back and forth with responsibilities with the Greek national team. 2018 she was a part at the world championship games and with the Greek national team they finished 9th in the world. On 1 November she signed with Gernika KESB.
