Paula Carrasco
Paula Daniela Carrasco Carrasco (born 17 January 1994 in Valparaíso, Chile) is a Chilean basketball player, environmental chemist, and public servant. She plays for Sportiva Italiana de Valparaíso as a shooting guard and sometimes a point guard, and she is part of Chile’s women’s national team. She is 164 cm tall.
She studied environmental chemistry at the University of Chile and began playing basketball at age eight with the Brisas club in La Florida. Since February 2023, she has worked in the climate change department of Chile’s Ministry of the Environment, focusing on greenhouse gas inventories and transparency.
In November 2023 she competed with the national team at the Santiago Pan American Games and spoke about balancing motherhood with high-level sport. She has four older brothers.
Her relationship with President Gabriel Boric became public on 16 September 2024, after starting in November 2023. In December 2024 they announced they are expecting their first child together; she already has a son from a previous relationship.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 00:21 (CET).