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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal family name is Xargay and the second or maternal family name is Casademont.
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Marta Xargay
No. 10
Shooting guard
Personal information
Born (1990-12-20) 20 December 1990 (age 33)
Girona, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Listed height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight 157 lb (71 kg)
Career information
Pro career 2009–present
Career history
1996–2003 C.E. Vedruna (youth)
2003–2005 C.E.S.E.T. (youth)
2005–2009 Uni Girona CB
2009–2015 CB Avenida
2015–2016 Phoenix Mercury
2015–2018 USK Praha
2018–2019 Dynamo Kursk
2020 Uni Girona CB
Career highlights and awards
  • EuroLeague champion (2011)
  • 2x Spanish League champion (2011, 2013)
  • 3x Spanish Cup champion (2012, 2014, 2015)
  • 3x Czech League champion (2016–2018)
Medals
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
Silver 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
World Cup
Silver 2014 Turkey
Bronze 2018 Spain
EuroBasket
Gold 2013 France
Gold 2017 Czech Republic
Gold 2019 Serbia/Latvia
Bronze 2015 Hungary/Romania

Marta Xargay Casademont (born 20 December 1990) is a retired Spanish professional basketball player. She played for Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, and for several European teams in Czech Republic, Russia and Spain. She played for the Spain women's national basketball team from 2011 to 2020. She won EuroLeague Women 2010–11 with Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto. She left Spain in 2015, joining both USK Praha of the Czech League in 2015 and the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA on 11 February 2015. In September 2018, she signed for Dynamo Kursk of the Russian Premier League and in January 2020, she returned to her youth club Uni Girona CB. After not playing in the 2020-21 season, she announced her retirement in July 2021.[1][2]

Club career

Xargay started playing basketball from a young age in clubs in her hometown Girona, entering the youth levels of Uni Girona CB at 14 and making it to the senior team and the Spanish second tier. In 2009 she signed for CB Avenida from Salamanca, where in the following six seasons she won two leagues, three cups and one EuroLeague.

During 2015 and 2016, she played both in the WNBA with Phoenix Mercury and the European season with USK Praha, where she won the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Czech League. Due to her commitment to the Spain national team, she opted not to play in the WNBA in 2017 or 2018. She played for one and a half seasons in Russian team Dynamo Kursk, before returning to Uni Girona CB in January 2020.

National team

Xargay started playing with Spain's youth teams at 16, winning a total of five medals from 2006 to 2010. She made her debut with the senior team in 2011 and up to her last game in 2020, she had 147 caps and 9,2 PPG, participating in the Rio 2016 Olympics, two World Championships and five European Championships:

  • Gold medal icon.svg 2006 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
  • Silver medal icon.svg 2007 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
  • 5th 2008 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
  • Silver medal icon.svg 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
  • Silver medal icon.svg 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth) (MVP)
  • Silver medal icon.svg 2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
  • 9th 2011 Eurobasket
  • Gold medal europe.svg 2013 Eurobasket
  • Silver medal world centered-2.svg 2014 World Championship
  • Bronze medal europe.svg 2015 Eurobasket
  • Silver medal olympic.svg 2016 Summer Olympics
  • Gold medal europe.svg 2017 Eurobasket
  • Bronze medal world centered-2.svg 2018 World Championship
  • Gold medal europe.svg 2019 Eurobasket

Personal life

Xargay is married to WNBA star Breanna Stewart. The couple got engaged in May 2020 in Papago Park, Phoenix, AZ. On July 6, 2021, the couple married on the rooftop of Stewart’s apartment building. On August 9, 2021, the couple’s daughter Ruby Mae Stewart Xargay was born in Idaho via gestational carrier.

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career high ° League leader

WNBA

Source

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2015 Phoenix 20 8 17.5 .392 .375 .733 1.8 2.4 .5 .2 2.1 3.9
2016 Phoenix 15 6 19.7 .400 .333 .706 1.7 2.7 1.1 .2 1.8 5.7
Career 2 years, 1 team 35 14 18.4 .396 .349 .719 1.7 2.5 .7 .2 2.0 4.7

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2015 Phoenix 4 4 23.3 .400 .400 1.000 3.8 2.3 .3 .0 1.8 6.0
2016 Phoenix 5 5 24.2 .444 .273 .800 1.8 2.8 .4 .0 2.6 7.8
Career 2 years, 1 team 9 9 23.8 .429 .313 .880 2.7 3.1 .3 .0 2.2 7.0

EuroLeague and EuroCup statistics

EuroLeague winner
Season Team GP MPP PPP RPP APP
2009–10 EuroLeague Spain Halcón Avenida 13 10.5 2.0 1.0 1.2
2010–11 EuroLeague Spain Halcón Avenida 17 13.7 3.5 1.3 0.9
2011–12 EuroLeague Spain Perfumerías Avenida 14 25.1 6.0 3.0 2.7
2012–13 EuroLeague Spain Perfumerías Avenida 14 26.1 7.9 3.1 2.9
2013–14 EuroLeague Spain Perfumerías Avenida 13 30.9 8.5 4.2 4.7
2014–15 EuroLeague Spain Perfumerías Avenida 16 28.1 8.1 3.6 3.2
2015–16 EuroLeague Czech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha 17 19.7 4.9 2.1 2.0
2016–17 EuroLeague Czech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha 19 30.8 11.0 3.3 3.4
2017–18 EuroLeague Czech Republic ZVVZ USK Praha 15 36.0 14.7 3.7 7.3
2018–19 EuroLeague Russia Dynamo Kursk 17 20.9 5.1 1.9 3.1
2019–20 EuroLeague Russia Dynamo Kursk 8 24.6 4.0 2.9 2.5
Spain Spar CityLift Girona 6 21.4 7.3 2.7 2.7

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