Maite Cazorla

María Teresa Cazorla Medina[lower-alpha 1] (born 18 June 1997), known as Maite Cazorla, is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Perfumerias Avenida of Liga Endesa and the Spanish women's national basketball team. She was drafted with the twenty third overall pick in the 2019 WNBA draft.[1]

Maite Cazorla
No. 5 – Perfumerias Avenida
PositionGuard
LeagueLF
Personal information
Born (1997-06-18) 18 June 1997
Las Palmas, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Listed height5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Listed weight155 lb (70 kg)
Career information
High schoolSegle XXI (Barcelona, Spain)
CollegeOregon (2015–2019)
WNBA draft2019: 2nd round, 23rd overall pick
Selected by the Atlanta Dream
Playing career2011–present
Career history
2011–2015Segle XXI (youth/LF2)
2019Atlanta Dream
2019–2023Perfumerías Avenida
2023–presentZVVZ USK Praha
Career highlights and awards
Stats at WNBA.com
Medals
EuroBasket
Silver medal – second place2023 Israel/Slovenia

Youth career

Coming from a family of professional basketball players,[2] Cazorla started playing basketball at 14 with her school team Teresianas before joining the youth system of CB Islas Canarias. At the age of 14 she left the Canary Islands and moved Barcelona to continue her development in the youth teams of Segle XXI in 2011.

She progressed in the club, playing in the Spanish second-tier league and the Spanish national youth teams until her performance in the 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship for Women caught the eye of the Oregon Ducks scouts.[3]

College career

Cazorla attended the University of Oregon from 2015 to 2019. She played all four years, and was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman team in 2015. She was named to the All-Pac-12 team in her Junior and Senior years. In 2019, she played with the team that made it to the Final Four.[4] In total, Cazorla played in 146 games for the Ducks over her four-year career. Cazorla was the eighth player from Oregon selected in the WNBA Draft.[5]

Oregon statistics

Source[6]

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high
Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2015-16 Oregon 35 410 44.8% 39.4% 73.8% 2.5 5.9 1.9 0.1 11.7
2016-17 Oregon 36 291 39.9% 34.9% 82.1% 1.4 3.9 1.3 0.1 8.1
2017-18 Oregon 37 403 48.6% 38.9% 83.3% 2.4 4.8 1.4 0.2 10.9
2018-19 Oregon 38 370 49.6% 41.2% 81.1% 1.4 4.3 1.1 0.2 9.7
Career 146 1474 45.7% 38.9% 79.0% 1.9 4.7 1.4 0.1 10.1

WNBA career

Cazorla made her WNBA debut on May 31, 2019, in a game versus the Seattle Storm. She totaled 3 points in her 5 minutes in the game.[7]

WNBA career statistics
Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career best ° League leader

Regular season
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2019 Atlanta 31115.4.312.236.8750.71.60.60.00.93.0
Career 1 year, 1 team 31115.4.312.236.8750.71.60.60.00.93.0

Club career

Back in Spain, in June 2019, she signed for CB Avenida,[8] one of the top teams of the Spanish top-tier league, winning her first title in 2020, the Spanish Queen's Cup and participating in the 2019-20 EuroCup Women.

European Cups statistics

In her debut season in international club competitions, she has played 10 games in the 2019–20 EuroCup Women, averaging 19.2 MPG and 4.4 PPG.[9]

Season Team GP MPP PPP RPP APP
2019–2020 EuroCup Perfumerías Avenida 10 19.2 4.4 0.6 2.4
2020–2021 EuroLeague Perfumerías Avenida 10 20.4 7.3 1.7 3.0

National team

Cazorla started playing with Spain's youth teams at 14, winning a total of seven medals from 2012 to 2017. Her highlights on these teams include a European U16 title in 2013, a runner-up finish at the U17 FIBA World Championships in 2014, and a third-place finish at the U19 FIBA World Championships in 2015.[4][10] She made her debut with the senior team in 2019, when she was 22 years old. Up to 2021, she had 19 caps and participated in the 2020 Olympics and the 2021 EuroBasket.[11]

Notes
  1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cazorla and the second or maternal family name is Medina.

References
  1. Philips, Justin. "WNBA Draft: Maite Cazorla Selected In Second Round". FanSided. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  2. "Maite Cazorla, la perla del baloncesto español que ha hecho historia en la NCAA femenina". El Español (in Spanish). 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  3. "Selección femenina baloncesto: El gran viaje de Maite Cazorla | Deportes | EL PAÍS".
  4. "Maite Cazorla". goducks.com. University of Oregon. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  5. "Living the Dream: Oregon Ducks guard Maite Cazorla taken by Atlanta in WNBA draft". ducksports.com. Gate House Media. April 10, 2019. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  6. "NCAA Statistics". web1.ncaa.org. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  7. "05/31/19 Seattle Storm @ Atlanta Dream". wnba.com. WNBA. May 31, 2019. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  8. Horas, Salamanca 24 (2019-06-13). "Maite Cazorla: "Fichar por Avenida es un verdadero orgullo"". Diario Noticias Salamanca 24 Horas (in Spanish). Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  9. "Perfumerias Avenida at the EuroCup Women 2019-20". FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  10. "Maite Cazolra". wnba.com. WNBA. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
  11. "Selecciones - Federación Española de Baloncesto". FEB (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-04.
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