María Teresa Cazorla Medina (born 18 June 1997), known as Maite Cazorla, is a Spanish professional
basketball
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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
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.
Youth career
Coming from a family of professional basketball players, 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
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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
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caught the eye of the
Oregon Ducks
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scouts.
College career
Cazorla attended the
University of Oregon
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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.
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.
Oregon statistics
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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.
WNBA career statistics
Regular season
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Atlanta
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Club career
Back in Spain, in June 2019, she signed for
CB Avenida
Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto formerly C.B. Halcón Viajes, is a women's professional basketball team based in Salamanca, Spain. The team currently plays in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto.
In 2011 Perfumerías Avenida won the Euroleague, an ...
, 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.
National team
Cazorla started playing with
Spain
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'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.
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.
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2012 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (''youth'')
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2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (''youth'')
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2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship
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(''youth'')
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2014 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (''youth'')
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2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (''youth'')
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2015 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (''youth'')
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2016 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
The 2016 FIBA U20 European Championship was the 19th edition of the FIBA U20 European Championship. The competition took place in Helsinki, Finland, from 16 to 24 July 2016.
Participating teams
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(''youth'')
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2017 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship
The 2017 FIBA U20 European Championship was the 20th edition of the FIBA U20 European Championship. The competition took place in three Greek cities, Chania, Rethymno and Heraklion, on the island of Crete, from 15 to 23 July 2017.
Venues
Partic ...
(''youth'')
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2021 Eurobasket
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2020 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
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2023 Eurobasket
Notes
References
External links
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Oregon Ducks
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WNBA
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1997 births
Living people
Atlanta Dream draft picks
Atlanta Dream players
Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Guards (basketball)
Olympic basketball players for Spain
Oregon Ducks women's basketball players
Spanish expatriate basketball people in the United States
Spanish women's basketball players
Sportspeople from Las Palmas