Maite Cazorla

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Maite Cazorla

| image = Maite Cazorla 5 ZVVZ USK Praha EuroLeague Women 20241212 (5).jpg

| league = Czech Women's Basketball League

| team = ZVVZ USK Praha

| number = 5

| position = Guard

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 10

| weight_lbs = 155

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1997|6|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Las Palmas, Spain

| high_school = Segle XXI (Barcelona, Spain)

| college = Oregon (2015–2019)

| draft_league = WNBA

| draft_year = 2019

| draft_round = 2

| draft_pick = 23

| draft_team = Atlanta Dream

| career_start = 2011

| career_end =

| years1 = 2011–2015

| team1 = Segle XXI (youth/LF2)

| years2 = {{WNBA Year|2019}}

| team2 = Atlanta Dream

| years3 = 2019–2023

| team3 = Perfumerías Avenida

| years4 = 2023–present

| team4 = ZVVZ USK Praha

| highlights =

EuroLeague Women champion (2025)
Spanish League champion (2021)
Spanish Cup champion (2020)
2x All Pac-12 (2018, 2019)

| wnba_profile = maite-cazorla

| medaltemplates =

}}

María Teresa Cazorla Medina{{family name footnote|lang=Spanish|Cazorla|Medina}} (born 18 June 1997), known as Maite Cazorla, is a Spanish professional basketball player for the ZVVZ USK Praha of the Czech Women's Basketball League and the Spanish women's national basketball team. She was drafted with the twenty third overall pick in the 2019 WNBA draft.{{cite news |url=https://autzenzoo.com/2019/04/12/wnba-draft-maite-cazorla-selected-second-round/ |title=WNBA Draft: Maite Cazorla Selected In Second Round |last=Philips |first=Justin |work=FanSided |accessdate=28 June 2019}}

Youth career

Coming from a family of professional basketball players,{{Cite web |date=1 April 2019 |title=Maite Cazorla, la perla del baloncesto español que ha hecho historia en la NCAA femenina |url=https://www.elespanol.com/deportes/baloncesto/20190401/maite-cazorla-baloncesto-espanol-historia-ncaa-femenina/387712250_0.html |access-date=2021-06-13 |website=El Español |language=es}} Cazorla started playing basketball at 14 with her school team Teresianas before joining the youth system of CB Islas Canarias. At the age of 14 she left the Canary Islands and moved Barcelona to continue her development in the youth teams of Segle XXI in 2011.

She progressed in the club, playing in the Spanish second-tier league and the Spanish national youth teams until her performance in the 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship for Women caught the eye of the Oregon Ducks scouts.{{cite news |url=https://elpais.com/deportes/2019/11/17/actualidad/1573987407_851949.html |title=Selección femenina baloncesto: El gran viaje de Maite Cazorla {{!}} Deportes {{!}} EL PAÍS|newspaper=El País |date=17 November 2019 |last1=Sáez |first1=Faustino }}

College career

Cazorla attended the University of Oregon from 2015 to 2019. She played all four years, and was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman team in 2015. She was named to the All-Pac-12 team in her Junior and Senior years. In 2019, she played with the team that made it to the Final Four.{{cite web |url=https://goducks.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=8042 |title=Maite Cazorla |website=goducks.com |publisher=University of Oregon |accessdate=28 June 2019}} In total, Cazorla played in 146 games for the Ducks over her four-year career. Cazorla was the eighth player from Oregon selected in the WNBA Draft.{{cite web |url=https://www.ducksports.com/sports/20190410/living-dream-oregon-ducks-guard-maite-cazorla-taken-by-atlanta-in-wnba-draft |title=Living the Dream: Oregon Ducks guard Maite Cazorla taken by Atlanta in WNBA draft |website=ducksports.com |publisher=Gate House Media |date=10 April 2019 |accessdate=28 June 2019}}

=Oregon statistics=

Source{{Cite web |url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careerplayer |title=NCAA Statistics |website=web1.ncaa.org |access-date=2021-06-13}}

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Team

!GP

!Points

!FG%

!3P%

!FT%

!RPG

!APG

!SPG

!BPG

!PPG

2015-16

|Oregon

|35

|410

|44.8%

|39.4%

|73.8%

|2.5

|5.9

|1.9

|0.1

|11.7

2016-17

|Oregon

|36

|291

|39.9%

|34.9%

|82.1%

|1.4

|3.9

|1.3

|0.1

|8.1

2017-18

|Oregon

|37

|403

|48.6%

|38.9%

|83.3%

|2.4

|4.8

|1.4

|0.2

|10.9

2018-19

|Oregon

|38

|370

|49.6%

|41.2%

|81.1%

|1.4

|4.3

|1.1

|0.2

|9.7

colspan="2" |Career

|146

|1474

|45.7%

|38.9%

|79.0%

|1.9

|4.7

|1.4

|0.1

|10.1

WNBA career

Cazorla made her WNBA debut on 31 May 2019, in a game versus the Seattle Storm. She totaled 3 points in her 5 minutes in the game.{{cite web |url=https://www.wnba.com/game/20190531/SEAATL/#/box-score |title=05/31/19 Seattle Storm @ Atlanta Dream |website=wnba.com |publisher=WNBA |date=31 May 2019 |accessdate=28 June 2019}}

WNBA career statistics

=Regular season=

| align="left" | 2019

| align="left" | Atlanta

| 31 || 1 || 15.4 || .312 || .236 || .875 || 0.7 || 1.6 || 0.6 || 0.0 || 0.9 || 3.0

| align="left" | Career

| align="left" | 1 year, 1 team

| 31 || 1 || 15.4 || .312 || .236 || .875 || 0.7 || 1.6 || 0.6 || 0.0 || 0.9 || 3.0

Club career

Back in Spain, in June 2019, she signed for CB Avenida,{{Cite web |last=Horas |first=Salamanca 24 |date=13 June 2019 |title=Maite Cazorla: "Fichar por Avenida es un verdadero orgullo" |url=https://www.salamanca24horas.com/deportes/maite-cazorla-fichar-avenida-verdadero-orgullo_1453223_102.html |access-date=2021-06-13 |website=Diario Noticias Salamanca 24 Horas |language=es}} one of the top teams of the Spanish top-tier league, winning her first title in 2020, the Spanish Queen's Cup and participating in the 2019-20 EuroCup Women.

=European Cups statistics=

In her debut season in international club competitions, she has played 10 games in the 2019–20 EuroCup Women, averaging 19.2 MPG and 4.4 PPG.{{Cite web |title=Perfumerias Avenida at the EuroCup Women 2019-20 |url=http://www.fiba.basketball/eurocupwomen/19-20/team/Perfumerias-Avenida |access-date=2021-06-13 |website=FIBA.basketball |language=en}}

class="wikitable"

!Season

!Team

!GP

!MPP

!PPP

!RPP

!APP

2019–2020 EuroCup

|Perfumerías Avenida

|10

|19.2

|4.4

|0.6

|2.4

2020–2021 EuroLeague

|Perfumerías Avenida

|10

|20.4

|7.3

|1.7

|3.0

National team

Cazorla started playing with Spain's youth teams at 14, winning a total of seven medals from 2012 to 2017. Her highlights on these teams include a European U16 title in 2013, a runner-up finish at the U17 FIBA World Championships in 2014, and a third-place finish at the U19 FIBA World Championships in 2015.{{cite web |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/maite-cazorla/#/bio |title=Maite Cazolra |website=wnba.com |publisher=WNBA |accessdate=28 June 2019}} She made her debut with the senior team in 2019, when she was 22 years old. Up to 2021, she had 19 caps and participated in the 2020 Olympics and the 2021 EuroBasket.{{Cite web |title=Selecciones - Federación Española de Baloncesto |url=http://seleccionfemenina.feb.es/Componente.aspx?c=1443473 |access-date=2022-01-04 |website=FEB |language=ES}}

16x16px 2012 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
16x16px 2013 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth)
16x16px 2014 FIBA Under-17 World Championship (youth)
16x16px 2014 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
4th 2015 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth)
16x16px 2015 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
16x16px 2016 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
16x16px 2017 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth)
7th 2021 Eurobasket
6th 2020 Summer Olympics
16x16px 2023 Eurobasket

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External links

{{Basketball stats}}
{{FIBA|new_id=196090|name=Maite Cazorla|old_id=99486}}
{{Eurobasket player|243420|Maite Cazorla}}
[https://baloncestoenvivo.feb.es/jugador/816620/1443473 María Teresa Cazorla Medina] at FEB {{in lang|es}}
[https://goducks.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=8042 Maite Cazorla] at Oregon Ducks
{{Olympedia|142411|Maite Cazorla}}
[https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/maite-cazorla_1958479 Maite Cazorla] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
{{COE profile|id1=15162*&DEPORTISTA=11040*|name=María Teresa Cazorla Medina}}
[https://esp.coe.es/atleta/maria-teresa-cazorla-medina/352406/ María Teresa Cazorla – COE – Paris 2024] {{in lang|es}}
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Category:1997 births

Category:Living people

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Category:Atlanta Dream players

Category:Basketball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Category:Guards (basketball)

Category:Olympic basketball players for Spain

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Category:Spanish expatriate basketball people in the United States

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Category:Sportspeople from Las Palmas

Category:Basketball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Category:21st-century Spanish sportswomen