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 S�o 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. 

November 23rd, 1972 in Araçatuba (Age 51)