Marta Xargay

Marta Xargay
No. 10 – Dynamo Kursk
Position Shooting guard
League Russia Premier League
Personal information
Born (1990-12-20) December 20, 1990
Girona, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Listed height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight 156 lb (71 kg)
Career information
Playing career 2009–present
Career history
1996–2003 C.E. Vedruna
2003–2005 C.E.S.E.T.
2005–2009 Uni Girona CB
2009–2015 CB Avenida
2015–2016 Phoenix Mercury
2015–2018 USK Praha
2018–present Dynamo Kursk
Career highlights and awards
Medals
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
World Championship
2014 Turkey
2018 Spain
EuroBasket
2013 France
2017 Czech Republic
2015 Hungary/Romania

Marta Xargay Casademont (born December 20, 1990) is a Spanish professional basketball player. She plays for Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, USK Praha and Spain women's national basketball team. She has represented national team since EuroBasket Women 2011 competition.[1] She won EuroLeague Women 2010–11 with Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto. She left Spain in 2015, joining both USK Praha of the Czech League in 2015 and the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA on February 11, 2015.[2] In September 2018 she signed for Dynamo Kursk of the Russian Premier League.[3]

Club career

Xargay started playing basketball from a young age in clubs in her hometown Girona, entering the youth levels of Uni Girona CB at 14 and making it to the senior team and the Spanish second tier. In 2009 she signed for CB Avenida from Salamanca, where in the following six seasons she won two leagues, three cups and one EuroLeague.

During 2015 and 2016 she played both in the WNBA[4] with Phoenix Mercury and the European season with USK Praha, where she won the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Czech League.[5] Due to her commitment to the Spain national team, she opted not to play in the WNBA in 2017 or 2018. In 2018 she signed for Russian team Dynamo Kursk.

Career stats

WNBA

Season Team GP MPP PPP RPP APP
2015 Phoenix Mercury 20 17.5 3.9 1.8 2.4
2016 Phoenix Mercury 15 19.8 5.7 1.7 2.7

EuroLeague

EuroLeague winner
Season Team GP MPP PPP RPP APP
2009-10 Spain Halcón Avenida 13 10.5 2.0 1.0 1.2
2010-11 Spain Halcón Avenida 17 13.7 3.5 1.3 0.9
2011-12 Spain Perfumerías Avenida 14 25.1 6.0 3.0 2.7
2012-13 Spain Perfumerías Avenida 14 26.1 7.9 3.1 2.9
2013-14 Spain Perfumerías Avenida 13 30.9 8.5 4.2 4.7
2014-15 Spain Perfumerías Avenida 16 28.1 8.1 3.6 3.3
2015-16 Czech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha 17 19.7 4.9 2.1 2.0
2016-17 Czech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha 19 30.8 11.0 3.3 3.4
2017-18 Czech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha 15 36.0 11.6 4.0 6.6
2018-19 Russia Dynamo Kursk

National team

Xargay started playing with Spain's youth teams at 16, winning a total of five medals from 2006 to 2010. She made her debut with the senior team in 2011. Up to 2017, she had 107 caps and 8 PPG,[6] participating in the Rio 2016 Olympics, one World Championships and four European Championships:[7]

References

  1. ↑ FIBA Europe profile
  2. ↑ Mercury Sign Guard Marta Xargay Archived 2015-02-14 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Marca.com (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ "Marta Xargay Casademont - WNBA.com - Official Site of the WNBA". WNBA.com - Official Site of the WNBA. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  5. ↑ "ZBL_2016-2017 Basketball League CZECH-REPUBLIC - eurobasket". www.eurobasket.com. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  6. ↑ "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
  7. ↑ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 2017-10-03.
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