Salimatou Kourouma

Salimatou Kourouma (born September 25, 1999) is a forward basketball professional player who plays for Mali women's national basketball team and Arizona Wildcats.

Personal life
Salimatou Kourouma parents are Souleymane Kourouma and Fatoumatou Guiro. She has two brothers and two sisters; Dramane and Karim, Batoma and Katiatou respectively.

Career history
During Kourouma high school she played for Life Prep Academy where she earned HCAA all-state honors.

Before she begin her college career 2020-2021, she redshirted in 2019-2020 at Grayson College and then transferred to Arkansas-Little Rock in 2021-2022 where she earned Ohio Valley Conference Player of the Year after averaging 17.8 points per game in conference play.

Kourouma started playing for the Arizona Wildcats during the 2023-2024 season. She scored the first collegiate basket on their win over Point Loma Nazarene, 52-44. Kourouma have played 13 games at Arizona Wildcats with 9.5 points per game, 3.3 rebounds per game, 0.8 assist per game, 1.2 steals per game, 1.2 personal fouls and 1.4 turnovers in 21 minutes per game before been transferred to Oregon Duck's women's basketball.

National team career
Kourouma started her basketball career with Mali national youth team on 2015 during the FIBA Africa U16 women's and started playing with Mali national senior team at the 2022 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup.

She fought with Kamite Elisabeth Dabou during the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup in Sydney, Australia after their 81-68 defeat against Serbia. On 27th September 2022 the players apologized for their fight. According to them, they said "it was not our intention and we were frustrated because of the loss. We are here to apologize to the world of basketball and FIBA World Cup".