DETROIT (9/24/2013) -- Just five months after helping the University of Detroit Mercy women's basketball team capture the Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI), Demeisha Fambro will now finalize her dream of playing professionally as the 2013 graduate has signed a contract with Clube Desportivo de Torres Novas of the Portugal women's league.

"I feel that I can relate to what Ray McCallum said during an interview in that I am making my dream a reality," said Fambro. "I love basketball and this is what I want to do and to play professionally and make money is just amazing."

Fambro – who starred as a prep at Crockett Tech and graduated from UDM this past May with a Bachelor's degree in Social Work - was part of the Titan teams that rose to the top of the Horizon League, claiming a share of second place in the HL her freshman year, a trip to the Horizon League title game as a junior and a postseason WBI crown in her final collegiate season.

She ended her collegiate career with 974 points – 20th in school history - and was tied for ninth with 112 three-pointers. She played in a total of 126 games – second most in the Titan record books – including 42 starts.

"I was a little discouraged early on that I wasn't getting a lot of calls from teams, but I kept praying and kept believing that this would happen one day and it did," added Fambro.

After starting her career averaging 8.0 points and 2.7 rebounds per game as a freshman, she saved her best for last tallying career highs in almsot every statistical category including points (375), points per game (11.4), assists (71), rebounds (146), rebounds per game (4.4), field goals (136), 3-pointers (48), and blocks (6). She was third on the team and 17th in the league in scoring, while hitting her three's at a 33.8% clip, good for second on the squad and 10th in the conference. Fambro was also tied for second on the team in steals (33), third in rebounding, and tied for third in assists.

She had three 20-point games in her four years in the Motor City, including a career-best 25 against Ball State as a sophomore, and came within one trey of tying a school record when she made seven 3-pointers finishing with 23 points in the Horizon League Championship Quarterfinals win over Wright State in 2013.

During this past summer, Fambro played semi-pro with the Flint Monarchs of the Women's Blue Chip Basketball League and will come back to play for them again next year as the team moves up to pro status while joining the Women's American Basketball Association (WABA). Fambro helped the Monarchs to a 10-2 record and a trip to the WBCBL's National Tournament.

"I am excited that I am going to play basketball really all year round," said Fambro. "I leave on Wednesday and we will play until about April and then I am set to come back with Flint when the season starts so I am truly living my dream."

Clube Desportivo de Torres Novas was 9-15 a year ago and was led in scoring by former Oklahoma City NAIA All-American Donica Cosby (26.8) and former LSU standout forward Taylor Turnbow (15.6).

"I was being marketed as a point guard, but the team needed a shooter and when the coach (Jose Monteiro) saw my highlight tape and then started to look at me, he said I would be a great fit," said Fambro. "Even though I played at a mid-major, he saw the teams that we were playing and all the competition that Detroit has played like the Penn States, Michigan, Michigan States, Green Bays and they signed me."

Fambro is the second player under head coach Autumn Rademacher to move into the professional ranks following Brigid Mulroy (Wasserberg, Germany) in 2010.

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