Nuria Martínez

Spanish basketball player

Nuria Martínez

No. 1 – Spar CityLift Girona

Position

Guard

League

EuroCup Women
LF

Personal information

Born

(1984-02-29) February 29, 1984 (age 40)
Mataró, Barcelona

Nationality

Spanish

Listed height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Listed weight

167 lb (76 kg)

Career information

WNBA draft

2004: 3rd round, 36th overall pick

Selected by the Sacramento Monarchs

Playing career

2002–present

Career history

2002–2003

UB-Barça

2003–2006

Perfumerías Avenida

2005

Minnesota Lynx

2007–2008

Dynamo Moscow

2008–2009

Famila Wüber Schio

2009–2010

Bracco Geas

2010

Minnesota Lynx

2010–2011

Ros Casares Valencia

2011–2012

Liomatic Umbertide

2012–2014

Kayseri Kaski Spor

2014–2016

Galatasaray

2016–2017

Famila Wüber Schio

2017–present

Spar CityLift Girona

Career highlights and awards

Spanish League champion (2006)
Spanish Cup champion (2006
Turkish League champion (2015)
Italian Cup champion (2017)

Medals

Representing Spain

World Championships
	2014 Turkey
	2010 Czech Republic
EuroBasket
	2007 Italy
	2003 Greece
	2005 Turkey
	2015 Hungary/Romania

Nuria Martínez Prat (born February 29, 1984) is a Spanish professional basketball player for Spar CityLift Girona.

Club career

Martínez made her debut in the Spanish top tier Liga Femenina in hometown club UB-Barça in 2002, soon signing for powerhouse CB Avenida, where she won the 2005-06 Spanish League and Cup. She played one game for WNBA team Minnesota Lynx in 2005. Martínez spent the following ten seasons mostly playing abroad^[1] in Russia (Dynamo Moscow, Turkey (Kayseri Kaski, Galatasaray S.K.) and Italy^[2] (Liomatic Umbertide, PF Schio, with just one season in Spain at Ros Casares Valencia and a second summer at Minnesota Lynx, playing 15 games in the 2010 WNBA season.

In 2017 she returned to Spain to play at Spar CityLift Girona.^[3]^[4]^[5]

WNBA 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 best	°	League leader

Regular season


Year	Team	GP	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	TO	PPG
2005	Minnesota	1	2.0	.000	.000	.000	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
2010	Minnesota	15	8.5	.182	.150	.667	0.7	0.7	0.3	0.8	1.8
Career	2 years, 1 team	16	8.1	.176	.143	.667	0.7	0.7	0.3	0.8	1.7

National team

She made her debut with Spain women's national basketball team at the age of 17. She played with the senior team for 15 years, from 2001 to 2015, with a total of 145 caps and 4 PPG.^[6] She participated in two Olympic Games,^[7] three World Championships and in four European Championships:^[8]

1999 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
6th 2000 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
5th 2002 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
2003 Eurobasket
6th 2004 Summer Olympics
2005 Eurobasket
8th 2006 World Championship
2007 Eurobasket
5th 2008 Summer Olympics
2010 World Championship
2014 World Championship
2015 Eurobasket

References

^ "ACB.COM - Núria Martínez: La aventurera del baloncesto". www.acb.com. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
^ "Stats in Italy".
^ "NÚRIA MARTÍNEZ: "ME HACE MUCHA ILUSIÓN VOLVER A JUGAR EN CASA"". lokosxelbaloncestofemenino.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2017-10-04.
^ "El Spar CityLift Girona ficha a la base Nuria Martínez". www.feb.es. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
^ "Federación Española de Baloncesto - Competiciones FEB". competiciones.feb.es. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
^ "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
^ "Nuria Martínez Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
^ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 2017-10-04.