Helen Luz

Who is Helen Luz?

Helen Cristina Santos Luz is a recently retired Brazilian professional basketball player. A starting guard on the great Brazilian women's national teams of the 1990s and early 2000s, she played for the Washington Mystics in the Women's National Basketball Association in 2001-2003, and in the Spanish Liga Femina for Zaragoza, Barcelona, Rivas, Cadi La Seu, and Hondarribia-Irun. She finished her career in one final season with the Brazilian team Americana, in São Paulo State, announcing her retirement at the end of February 2011.

Since retiring, Helen has become a commentator on SPORTV, opened a social project for teaching basketball to children in Louveira, and begun a regular blog. In addition, she told interviewers that she hoped to become a mother, and on November 21, 2012, she and her husband Octavio welcomed into the world their son Pedro Lafiaccola Luz.