Croatian basketball star Ivana Dojkić is headed stateside. At just 25 years old, Dojkić is already among the most seasoned of EuroLeague professionals, and now she is on her way to the WNBA after signing a contract with the Seattle Storm.
On the court, Dojkić combines a developed three-level scoring ability and an all-world passing ability into a lethal “pass first, score if needed” player profile. Add in omniscient court vision and slick handles, and Dojkić on paper is the prototype for a future star in the WNBA.
Currently playing for Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna in Italy, Dojkić’s professional basketball career has spanned across nine years and five countries. Born in the coastal paradise of Poreč, Croatia, she fell in love with basketball after her first practice as an eight-year-old.
At 12, she packed her things and left Poreč for the first stop in her never-ending basketball journey. First she moved to Zagreb when her older brother Marko got called up by KK Cedevita. “They took him as a young prospect, and I [nonchalantly] said ‘Okay, I’ll go too,’” she said. Leaving behind her hometown, as well as her father who decided to stay back in Poreč, was only the first step in a long career of sacrifices and goodbyes that Dojkić would endure en…
