Anna Cruz

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Anna Cruz
Anna Cruz 51 Fenerbahce Women's Basketball 20191031 (1).jpg
No. 15Basket Zaragoza
Position Small forward / shooting guard
League LF
Personal information
Born (1986-10-27) 27 October 1986 (age 37)
Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
Listed height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Listed weight136 lb (62 kg)
Career information
Playing career2002–present
Career history
2002–2005 Universitat de Barcelona
2005–2008 Arranz-Jopisa Burgos
2008–2009CB Olesa
2009–2013 Rivas Ecópolis
2013–2016 Nadezhda Orenburg
2014 New York Liberty
20152016 Minnesota Lynx
2016–2019 Dynamo Kursk
2019-2019 Fenerbahçe
2019-2020 Araski AES
2020-present Basket Zaragoza
Career highlights and awards
Stats at WNBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Medals
Representing Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
Olympic Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
World Cup
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Turkey
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2010 Czech Republic
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Spain
EuroBasket
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Czech Republic
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Serbia/Latvia
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2009 Latvia
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Hungary/Romania

Anna Cruz Lebrato [lower-alpha 1] (born 27 October 1986) is a Spanish professional basketball player, currently playing for Spanish team Barça CBS (F.C.Barcelona). [1] She developed her professional career in several clubs in Spain, Russia, Turkey and the United States, and had 178 caps for the Spain's national basketball team from 2009 to 2019, winning a total of eight medals. She also won the 2015 WNBA, the 2017 EuroLeague and the 2017 and 2019 EuroBaskets. [2]

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Club career

Cruz started playing basketball in clubs in her hometown Barcelona, making the debut in the Spanish top tier league with UB-Barça at 16, still a junior. Despite winning two leagues in 2003 and 2005, the lack of playtime prompted her to move to CB Ciudad de Burgos, but in her third season there the team was relegated and she went back to Barcelona to play at CB Olesa – Espanyol. She played the following four seasons at Rivas Ecópolis in Madrid, winning two Spanish Cups in 2011 and 2013 and playing the four seasons in the EuroLeague. [3]

She moved abroad in 2013 to play for Russian team Nadezhda Orenburg, where she remained for three seasons. Since the summer of 2014 she has combined the European season with the WNBA, first at New York Liberty and with the Minnesota Lynx since 2015, winning the WNBA championship once. She chose to rest for the summer of 2017 and not to play the WNBA season with the Lynx. [4]

At Dynamo Kursk between 2016 and 2019, she won her first Euroleague. [5] title in 2017 under coach Lucas Mondelo. After a short spell at Turkish club Fenerbahçe in 2019, she returned to Spain for the 2020-21 season.[ citation needed ]

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

Denotes seasons in which Cruz won a WNBA championship
YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
2014 New York 343427.1.462.347.6923.53.61.30.32.17.7
2015 Minnesota 221729.1.474.250.7863.63.01.00.22.28.0
2016 Minnesota 6010.0.4551.0001.0001.02.00.30.00.32.8
Career3 years, 2 teams625126.2.466.314.7533.33.21.10.22.07.4

Playoffs

YearTeamGPGSMPGFG%3P%FT%RPGAPGSPGBPGTOPPG
2015 Minnesota 10022.1.385.308.6672.12.70.90.11.65.2
2016 Minnesota 608.5.200.500.0001.01.20.30.00.71.2
Career2 years, 1 team16017.0.343.333.6671.72.10.70.11.33.7

EuroLeague

EuroLeague winner
SeasonTeamGPMPPPPPRPPAPP
2009–10 Flag of Spain.svg Rivas Ecópolis 1332.212.44.82.5
2010–11 Flag of Spain.svg Rivas Ecópolis 1229.87.63.92.7
2011–12 Flag of Spain.svg Rivas Ecópolis 2132.99.94.82.9
2012–13 Flag of Spain.svg Rivas Ecópolis 1531.814.14.72.7
2013–14 Flag of Russia.svg Nadezhda Orenburg 1732.18.83.74.6
2014–15 Flag of Russia.svg Nadezhda Orenburg 1630.69.35.04.1
2015–16 Flag of Russia.svg Nadezhda Orenburg 1629.89.14.73.9
2016–17 Flag of Russia.svg Dinamo Kursk 1731.68.24.25.5
2017–18 Flag of Russia.svg Dinamo Kursk 1027.96.05.45.0
2018–19 Flag of Russia.svg Dinamo Kursk 1827.95.94.13.7
2019–20 Flag of Turkey.svg Fenerbahçe 823.05.63.62.5

National team

Cruz started playing with Spain's youth teams at 17, winning a total of three medals from 2004 to 2007. She made her debut with the senior team in 2009 at 22 and played her last game in 2019, winning 158 caps 7 PPG, participating in the Rio 2016 Olympics, [6] three World Championships and five European Championships: [7]

Her buzzer-beater shot against Turkey in the 2016 Rio Olympics quarter-finals is one of her key shots with the national team. [8] [9] [10]

Notes

  1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cruzand the second or maternal family name is Lebrato.

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