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Belmar, New Jersey Belmar is a borough in Monmouth County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, situated on the Jersey Shore. As of the 2010 United States census, the borough's population was 5,794, Mabrey attended

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in

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, where she was part of two teams that won the state Tournament of Champions and shared most valuable player honors in the McDonald's All-American Game in 2015. Despite her sister Michaela's success as part of the

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team Marina doubted whether or not to choose that college when she was considering many offers for a basketball scholarship after high school. She chose to join up with coach

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's squad in 2015.

College career

Mabrey joined sister Michaela in the 2015–16 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team following a season in which the team were runners-up in the national championship but required to be rebuilt. She quickly established herself and won "rookie of the week" in November 2015 after recording a

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at Valparaiso. Her 35 appearances as a rookie, 85 three-pointers (which ranks as the second most for a single season in program history) and an impressive 10.7 points per game gained her honors in the ACC All-Freshman Team (Blue Ribbon Panel & Coaches) and ACC All-Academic Team. The 2016–17 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team reached the Elite Eight but fell for the second year running to

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. Mabrey was chosen along with

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and Lindsay Allen for the regional all-tournament team. The Notre Dame team for the following two years saw records fall, two national championship games and one championship victory. Mabrey was a key component of a team that survived a rash of injuries that won the 2018 national championship and commented later that the injuries had given the now smaller team an added mental toughness that "there is no-one else to sub in" and that they had to battle through. The fighting mentality led to comebacks throughout the season with Mabrey moving to a more direct point guard role and taking more leadership with the largest fightback in Notre Dame history coming back against Tennessee from 23 points behind. The team executed the largest comeback in a championship game in NCAA women's basketball history, overcoming a 15-point deficit to achieve a 61–58 victory over fellow No. 1 seed Mississippi State. She graduated in 2019 as Notre Dame's all-time leader in made three-pointers with 274; 1,896 career points ranks eighth all-time and a career 81.7 percent from the line – ranking sixth for Notre Dame.

Notre Dame statistics

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Professional career

United States

Mabrey was drafted 19th overall in the 2019 WNBA draft by the

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. The Sparks, under new head coach

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, reached the play-off semi-finals with a regular season record of 22–12. Mabrey saw limited minutes during the playoffs. She appeared in 31 games with the Sparks during her rookie season and averaged 4.0 points, 1.2 rebounds and 1.0 assists while shooting 34.4% from the field. Prior to the 2020 WNBA season, Mabrey was traded by the Sparks to the

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for a 2021 second round draft choice. Due to the

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, the 2020 WNBA season was reduced to a 22-game regular season at

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, without fans present. In 19 games for the Wings, Mabrey averaged 10.0 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.3 steals per game. Mabrey returned to the Dallas Wings for the 2021 WNBA season.

Overseas

For the 2019–20 season, Mabrey moved to Latvia to play for

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. In her first game she scored 24 points and led her team with eight rebounds to win 89–81 over defending champions

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which contained WNBA players

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,

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and

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. Riga won only two of the following nine matches that were played. Mabrey settled in well in a young team and at the suspension of play she was eighth in the league in points per game (15.8). She left Latvia in mid-March after European play was cancelled due to the

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. For the 2020–21 season, Mabrey moved to Israel to play for Bnot Hertzeliya. In 22 games, she averaged 23.2 points, 8.0 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 2.4 steals per game. Mabrey signed with the

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in Australia for the 2021–22 WNBL season. In her debut for the Lynx on January 2, 2022, she scored a game-high 30 points with seven 3-pointers in an 88–86 loss to the

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. On January 23, she scored 34 points in an 86–81 win over the

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. Following this game, she was unavailable for over a month due to a foot injury but returned to contribute to the Lynx ending the season as runners-up in the WBNL to

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after losing the final series by two matches to one.

Professional Statistics

WNBA

Regular season

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EuroLeague

D1 (Israel)

WNBL (Australia)

Personal life

In 2019, Mabrey started her own shirts called This Is My Kitchen in reference to sexism in sports and her 2018 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship win which she sold online for a limited time.

References

External links

Notre Dame Fighting Irish bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mabrey, Marina 1996 births Living people American expatriate basketball people in Australia American women's basketball players Basketball players from New Jersey Dallas Wings players Los Angeles Sparks draft picks Los Angeles Sparks players Manasquan High School alumni McDonald's High School All-Americans Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball players People from Belmar, New Jersey Perth Lynx players Shooting guards

Early life

College career

Notre Dame statistics

Professional career

United States

Overseas

Professional Statistics

WNBA

Regular season

Postseason

EuroLeague

D1 (Israel)

WNBL (Australia)

Personal life

References

External links