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Women's Basketball Club Sparta&K is a women's basketball team based in Vidnoye, Russia that plays in
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’s EuroLeague Women.


History

It won the 2005–06
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and the 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09 and 2009–10 EuroLeague Women championship and two SuperCup Women. It is currently the only team that has won 4 consecutive EuroLeague Women titles since 1991 when European Cup For Women's Champions Clubs was rebranded as the Euroleague Women. This is due in part to the team's supplementing of its otherwise Russian roster with seasoned WNBA American and other stars
Lauren Jackson Lauren Elizabeth Jackson (born 11 May 1981) is an Australian professional basketball player. The daughter of two national basketball team players, Jackson was awarded a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 1997, when she ...
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Sue Bird Suzanne Brigit Bird (born October 16, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who played her entire career with the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA) Bird was drafted by the Storm first over ...
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Diana Taurasi Diana Lorena Taurasi (born June 11, 1982) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was drafted by Phoenix first overall in the 2004 WNBA draft. Taurasi has w ...
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Tamika Catchings Tamika Devonne Catchings (born July 21, 1979) is an American retired professional basketball player who played her entire 15-year career for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Catchings has won a WNBA champio ...
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Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota (born August 12, 1983) is a former Latvian basketball player. She ended her career in 2016. She is a daughter of former VEF Rīga star player Andris Jēkabsons. Jēkabsone-Žogota played for Dynamo Moscow. She joined t ...
, and others. In 2010, the club was renamed to Sparta&K after the sports society
Spartak Spartak may refer to: In sports *Spartak (sports society), an international fitness and sports society that unites some countries of the former Soviet Union In Russia *FC Spartak Moscow, a football club *FC Spartak Kostroma, a football club *PFC ...
were against the usage of the brand "Spartak" in December 2009. The last letter is devoted to murdered basketball sponsor
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Winners

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: (2) * 2009, 2010 EuroLeague Women: (4) * 15px 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
EuroCup Women The EuroCup Women (officially ''FIBA EuroCup Women'') is the second-level basketball competition with teams from associate members of FIBA Europe. It succeeds the Ronchetti Cup. System of competition As for the EuroLeague Women, the EuroCup had ...
: (1) * 2006
Russian Women's Basketball Premier League The Russian Women's Basketball Premier League is the premier women's basketball competition in Russia. The category consists of 11 teams playing a total of 20 rounds. At the end of the regular season the top eight teams play the play-offs througho ...
: (2) * 15px 2007, 2008


Current roster


Former players

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Marina Karpunina Marina Germanovna Karpunina (russian: Марина Германовна Карпунина, born 21 March 1984) is a Russian basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one anoth ...
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Ilona Korstin Ilona Kalyuvna Korstin (russian: Илона Кальювна Корстин; born May 30, 1980) is a retired Russian basketball forward of Estonian origin, who competed for her native Russia at the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2008 Summer Olympics ...
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Marina Kuzina Marina Kuzina (born 19 July 1985 in Moscow) is a Russian basketball player who competed for the Russian National Team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning the bronze medal. She was also part of the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Ol ...
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Irina Osipova Irina Viktorovna Osipova (russian: Ирина Викторовна Осипова, born 25 June 1981) is a Russian basketball player. Since 2002 she was part of the Russia women's national basketball team at most major international competitions ...
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Seimone Augustus Seimone Delicia Augustus (born April 30, 1984) is an American former professional basketball player who is currently an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was drafted first overa ...
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Sue Bird Suzanne Brigit Bird (born October 16, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player who played her entire career with the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA) Bird was drafted by the Storm first over ...
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Tamika Catchings Tamika Devonne Catchings (born July 21, 1979) is an American retired professional basketball player who played her entire 15-year career for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Catchings has won a WNBA champio ...
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Candice Dupree Candice Dupree (born August 16, 1984) is an American professional basketball coach and former player. She was selected sixth in the 2006 WNBA draft by the Chicago Sky. Dupree has won a WNBA Championship (2014) with the Phoenix Mercury. She has ...
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Sylvia Fowles Sylvia Shaqueria Fowles (born October 6, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player. Fowles played for the Chicago Sky and Minnesota Lynx during her career in the WNBA. She won the WNBA MVP Award in 2017 and the WNBA Defensive Pl ...
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Janel McCarville Janel McCarville (born November 3, 1982) is an American professional basketball player from Custer, Wisconsin who is currently a WNBA free agent. High school years Born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, McCarville attended Stevens Point Area Senio ...
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Diana Taurasi Diana Lorena Taurasi (born June 11, 1982) is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Mercury of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was drafted by Phoenix first overall in the 2004 WNBA draft. Taurasi has w ...
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Tina Thompson Tina Marie Thompson (born February 10, 1975) is an American former WNBA professional basketball player who served as the head coach of the Virginia Cavaliers women's basketball team from 2018-2022. Thompson was inducted into both the Women's Bas ...
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Becky Hammon Rebecca Lynn Hammon ( rus, links=no, Бекки Хэммон; born March 11, 1977) is an American-Russian professional basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Las Vegas Aces of the Women’s National Basketball Associati ...
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Epiphanny Prince Epiphanny Prince (born January 11, 1988) is a Russian-American professional basketball player for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and Galatasaray of Turkey as well as the Russia women's national basketball t ...
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Lauren Jackson Lauren Elizabeth Jackson (born 11 May 1981) is an Australian professional basketball player. The daughter of two national basketball team players, Jackson was awarded a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 1997, when she ...
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Isabelle Yacoubou Isabelle Yacoubou (born 21 April 1986) is a Beninese-born French basketball player. She plays for France women's national basketball team. She has competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics where France won a silver medal. Since May 2004 she also hold ...
* Sonja Petrović *
Elisa Aguilar Elisabeth Aguilar López (born 15 October 1976 in Madrid) is a former Spanish women's basketball player, member of the Spanish women's basketball team. After four years at George Washington Colonials, she spent most of her senior career in Span ...
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Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota Anete Jēkabsone-Žogota (born August 12, 1983) is a former Latvian basketball player. She ended her career in 2016. She is a daughter of former VEF Rīga star player Andris Jēkabsons. Jēkabsone-Žogota played for Dynamo Moscow. She joined t ...
* Jelena Milovanović *
Jelena Škerović Jelena Škerović (born 23 December 1980) is a Montenegrin female basketball coach and former player. Currently she is head coach of Lotos Gdynia Arka Gdynia is a Polish professional women's basketball club. It was founded in 1946 in the city of ...
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Tijana Ajduković Tijana Ajduković ( sr-cyr, Тијана Ајдуковић; born 3 June 1991) is a Serbian professional women's basketball player who plays for USK Praha (women's basketball) of the Czech League. Standing at , she plays at the center position. S ...


References


External links


Official site
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