Queralt Casas

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Queralt Casas
Queralt Casas (24.05.21).jpg
No. 10–Valencia Basket
Position Shooting guard
League LF
Personal information
Born (1992-11-18) 18 November 1992 (age 32)
Bescanó, Girona, Spain
Listed height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight142 lb (64 kg)
Career information
Playing career2012–present
Career history
2006–2010 Segle XXI (youth/LF2)
2010–2012 CDB Zaragoza
2012–2014 Rivas Ecópolis
2014–2015 Galatasaray SK
2015–2016 Nantes Rezé Basket
2016–2018 Basket Landes
2018 Flammes Carolo
2018-2019 Sopron Basket
2019-present Valencia Basket
Career highlights
Medals
Representing Flag of Spain.svg  Spain
World Cup
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Spain
EuroBasket
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2013 France
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Serbia/Latvia
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Israel/Slovenia

Queralt Casas Carreras [a] (born 18 November 1992) is a Spanish basketball player. She plays as a forward in the Spanish League for Valencia Basket. Also a member of the Spanish national team, she won the gold medal at the EuroBasket Women in 2013 and 2019 with the senior team. [1]

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Club career

Casas started playing with the youth teams of Segle XXI in 2006, reaching the senior team and playing in the Spanish League second tier for the last two seasons. From 2010 to 2012 she played for defunct club CDB Zaragoza in the Spanish League top tier. In April 2012 she signed a training camp contract with WNBA's Minnesota Lynx. [2] She signed for one of the top teams of the moment, Rivas Ecópolis, winning the 2013 Cup and the 2014 League.

In 2014 she transferred to Turkish team Galatasaray Odeabank, winning the Turkish League in 2015. She then moved to France, where she played one season for Nantes Rezé Basket, two seasons for Basket Landes and a few months for Flammes Carolo Basket. [3] [4] In December 2018 she signed for Sopron Basket of the Hungarian League. [5]

She returned to Spain after 5 years to play for Valencia Basket in the 2018-19 league. [6]

European cups statistics

EuroCup winner
SeasonTeamGPMPPPPPRPPAPP
2010–11 EuroCup Flag of Spain.svg CDB Zaragoza 1012.24.51.40.8
2012–13 EuroLeague Flag of Spain.svg Rivas Ecopolis 1521.07.52.01.3
2013–14 EuroLeague Flag of Spain.svg Rivas Ecopolis 1130.211.53.11.6
2014–15 EuroLeague Flag of Turkey.svg Galatasaray S.K 1430.95.43.12.1
2015–16 EuroCup Flag of France.svg Nantes Rezé Basket 1033.817.06.53.9
2016–17 EuroCup Flag of France.svg Basket Landes 231.016.54.03.0
2017–18 EuroCup Flag of France.svg Basket Landes 828.012.84.93.3
2018–19 EuroLeague Flag of France.svg Flammes Carolo 427.111.84.34.0
Flag of Hungary.svg Sopron Basket 1331.78.45.23.7
2020-21 EuroCup Flag of Spain.svg Valencia Basket 726.410.63.93.6

National team

Casas started playing with Spain's youth teams at 15, winning a total of six medals from 2008 to 2012. [7] She made her debut with the senior team in 2013, when she was 20 years old. She won the gold medal at the EuroBasket Women 2013. After participating in a few friendlies in 2014 and 2015, she played again official games in February 2018, when coach Lucas Mondelo called her up for the 2019 EuroBasket qualifiers. Up to 2021, she had 78 caps with 3.5 PPG. [8]

Notes

  1. ↑ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Casasand the second or maternal family name is Carreras.

References

  1. ↑ "Web Queralt Casas 9: Biografía". Web Queralt Casas 9. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  2. ↑ The WNBA looks for her Ricky Rubio in Queralt Casas. Marca
  3. ↑ "Flammes Carolo : Des prolongations enregistrées, Queralt Casas dans le viseur". 10 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Web Queralt Casas 9: Queralt Casas ficha por el Flammes Carolo". 2 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "Queralt Casas ficha por el Sopron". 10 December 2018.
  6. ↑ Valencia signing
  7. ↑ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2018. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  8. ↑ "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  9. ↑ MVP Casas leads all tournament team. 2011 U-20 EC's website
  10. ↑ "Queralt Casas – Spain and Rivas Ecopolis | FIBA Europe". www.fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
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