Anna Cruz

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Anna Cruz

| image = Anna Cruz 51 Fenerbahçe Women's Basketball 20191031 (1).jpg

| number = 15

| position = Small forward / shooting guard

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 8

| weight_lbs = 136

| league = LF

| team = Basket Zaragoza

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1986|10|27}}

| birth_place = Badalona, Barcelona, Spain

| career_start = 2002

| highlights =

WNBA champion (2015)
EuroLeague champion (2017)
Baltic League champion (2017)
2x Spanish League champion (2003, 2005)
2x Spanish Cup champion (2011, 2013)

| wnba_profile = anna_cruz

| years1 = 2002–2005

| team1 = Universitat de Barcelona

| years2 = 2005–2008

| team2 = Arranz-Jopisa Burgos

| years3 = 2008–2009

| team3 = CB Olesa

| years4 = 2009–2013

| team4 = Rivas Ecópolis

| years5 = 2013–2016

| team5 = Nadezhda Orenburg

| years6 = 2014

| team6 = New York Liberty

| years7 = 2015–2016

| team7 = Minnesota Lynx

| years8 = 2016–2019

| team8 = Dynamo Kursk

| years9 = 2019-2019

| team9 = Fenerbahçe

| years10 = 2019-2020

| team10 = Araski AES

| years11 = 2020-present

| team11 = Basket Zaragoza

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCountry|{{bkw|ESP}}}}

}}

Anna Cruz Lebrato{{family name footnote|Cruz|Lebrato|lang=Spanish}} (born 27 October 1986) is a Spanish professional basketball player, currently playing for Spanish team Barça CBS (F.C.Barcelona).{{Cite web |title=Anna Cruz, fichaje top para el Barça CBS |url=https://www.fcbarcelona.es/es/baloncesto/primer-equipo/noticias/2685675/anna-cruz-fichaje-top-para-el-barca-cbs |access-date=24 October 2022 |website=fcbarcelona.es |language=es}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.fiba.basketball/europe/euroleaguewomen/2017/Anna-CRUZ#tab=profile |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115000746/http://www.fiba.com/europe/euroleaguewomen/2017/Anna-CRUZ#tab=profile |url-status=live |archive-date=15 January 2017 |title=FIBA Europe profile |website=fiba.com}}

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.{{Cite web |url=http://competiciones.feb.es/estadisticas/Jugador.aspx?i=603857&c=221823 |title=Federación Española de Baloncesto – Competiciones FEB |website=competiciones.feb.es |access-date=3 October 2017}}

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.{{Cite news |url=https://www.elconfidencial.com/deportes/baloncesto/2017-05-12/anna-cruz-seleccion-espanola-eurobasket-wnba-canasta-juegos-olimpicos-rio_1381847/ |title=Anna Cruz: Cuando estoy de bajón me alegra ver la canasta de los Juegos. Noticias de Baloncesto |work=El Confidencial |access-date=3 October 2017 |language=es}}

At Dynamo Kursk between 2016 and 2019, she won her first Euroleague.{{Cite news |url=https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/player/p/pid/44920/sid/12633/tid/4654/tid2//_/2017_EuroLeague_Women/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003224928/https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/player/p/pid/44920/sid/12633/tid/4654/tid2//_/2017_EuroLeague_Women/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 October 2017 |title=Anna Cruz profile, EuroLeague Women 2017|work=FIBA.COM|access-date=3 October 2017}} 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|date=March 2022}}

Career statistics

=WNBA=

=Regular season=

class="wikitable"

style="background:#afe6ba; width:3em;"|†

|Denotes seasons in which Cruz won a WNBA championship

| align="left" | 2014

| align="left" | New York

| 34 || 34 || 27.1 || .462 || .347 || .692 || 3.5 || 3.6 || 1.3 || 0.3 || 2.1 || 7.7

|style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2015^†

| align="left" | Minnesota

| 22 || 17 || 29.1 || .474 || .250 || .786 || 3.6 || 3.0 || 1.0 || 0.2 || 2.2 || 8.0

| align="left" | 2016

| align="left" | Minnesota

| 6 || 0 || 10.0 || .455 || 1.000 || 1.000 || 1.0 || 2.0 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 2.8

| align="left" | Career

| align="left" | 3 years, 2 teams

| 62 || 51 || 26.2 || .466 || .314 || .753 || 3.3 || 3.2 || 1.1 || 0.2 || 2.0 || 7.4

=Playoffs=

|style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| 2015^†

| align="left" | Minnesota

| 10 || 0 || 22.1 || .385 || .308 || .667 || 2.1 || 2.7 || 0.9 || 0.1 || 1.6 || 5.2

| align="left" | 2016

| align="left" | Minnesota

| 6 || 0 || 8.5 || .200 || .500 || .000 || 1.0 || 1.2 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.7 || 1.2

| align="left" | Career

| align="left" | 2 years, 1 team

| 16 || 0 || 17.0 || .343 || .333 || .667 || 1.7 || 2.1 || 0.7 || 0.1 || 1.3 || 3.7

=EuroLeague=

class="wikitable"

style="background:#afe6ba; width:3em;"|

|EuroLeague winner

class="wikitable"

!Season

!Team

!GP

!MPP

!PPP

!RPP

!APP

2009–10

|{{flagicon|ESP}}Rivas Ecópolis

|13

|32.2

|12.4

|4.8

|2.5

2010–11

|{{flagicon|ESP}}Rivas Ecópolis

|12

|29.8

|7.6

|3.9

|2.7

2011–12

|{{flagicon|ESP}}Rivas Ecópolis

|21

|32.9

|9.9

|4.8

|2.9

2012–13

|{{flagicon|ESP}}Rivas Ecópolis

|15

|31.8

|14.1

|4.7

|2.7

2013–14

|{{flagicon|RUS}}Nadezhda Orenburg

|17

|32.1

|8.8

|3.7

|4.6

2014–15

|{{flagicon|RUS}}Nadezhda Orenburg

|16

|30.6

|9.3

|5.0

|4.1

2015–16

|{{flagicon|RUS}}Nadezhda Orenburg

|16

|29.8

|9.1

|4.7

|3.9

style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|2016–17

|{{flagicon|RUS}}Dinamo Kursk

|17

|31.6

|8.2

|4.2

|5.5

2017–18

|{{flagicon|RUS}}Dinamo Kursk

|10

|27.9

|6.0

|5.4

|5.0

2018–19

|{{flagicon|RUS}}Dinamo Kursk

|18

|27.9

|5.9

|4.1

|3.7

2019–20

|{{flagicon|TUR}}Fenerbahçe

|23.0

|5.6

|3.6

|2.5

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,{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cr/anna-cruz-1.html |title=Anna Cruz |access-date=2020-10-07 |archive-date=2019-04-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422150430/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cr/anna-cruz-1.html |url-status=dead }} three World Championships and five European Championships:{{Cite web |url=https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/Anna%20CRUZ/pid/44920/_//players.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003175006/https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/Anna%20CRUZ/pid/44920/_//players.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 October 2017 |title=archive.fiba.com: Players |website=archive.fiba.com |access-date=3 October 2017}}

16x16px 2004 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
5th 2005 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth)
4th 2006 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
9th 2007 FIBA Under-21 World Championship (youth)
16x16px 2009 Eurobasket
16x16px 2010 World Championship
9th 2011 Eurobasket
16x16px 2014 World Championship
16x16px 2015 Eurobasket
16x16px 2016 Summer Olympics
16x16px 2017 Eurobasket
16x16px 2018 World Championship
16x16px 2019 Eurobasket

Her buzzer-beater shot against Turkey in the 2016 Rio Olympics quarter-finals is one of her key shots with the national team.{{Cite news |url=https://www.sbnation.com/2016/8/16/12506988/spain-basketball-buzzer-beater-video-turkey-anna-cruz |title=Watch Spain's one-legged buzzer beater to beat Turkey |work=SBNation.com |access-date=3 October 2017}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-rio-basketball-w-spain/basketball-cruz-buzzer-beater-takes-spain-to-semis-idUSKCN10R2CK |title=Basketball: Cruz buzzer beater takes Spain to semis |date=16 August 2016 |work=Reuters |access-date=3 October 2017}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2016/08/16/spain-beats-turkey-64-62-on-buzzer-beater-in-womens-hoops/88840230/# |title=Spain beats Turkey 64–62 on buzzer beater in women's hoops |work=USA TODAY |access-date=3 October 2017 |language=en}}