Anna Cruz

Anna Cruz
No. 15 – Basket Zaragoza
PositionSmall forward / shooting guard
LeagueLF
Personal information
Born (1986-10-27) 27 October 1986 (age 38)
Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
Listed height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Listed weight136 lb (62 kg)
Career information
Playing career2002–present
Career history
2002–2005Universitat de Barcelona
2005–2008Arranz-Jopisa Burgos
2008–2009CB Olesa
2009–2013Rivas Ecópolis
2013–2016Nadezhda Orenburg
2014New York Liberty
2015–2016Minnesota Lynx
2016–2019Dynamo Kursk
2019-2019Fenerbahçe
2019-2020Araski AES
2020-presentBasket Zaragoza
Career highlights and awards
Stats at WNBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Medals
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team
World Cup
Silver medal – second place 2014 Turkey
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Czech Republic
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Spain
EuroBasket
Gold medal – first place 2017 Czech Republic
Gold medal – first place 2019 Serbia/Latvia
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Latvia
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Hungary/Romania

Anna Cruz Lebrato[a] (born 27 October 1986) is a Spanish professional basketball player, currently playing for Spanish team Barça CBS (F.C.Barcelona).[1] 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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4]

At Dynamo Kursk between 2016 and 2019, she won her first Euroleague.[5] 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]

Career statistics

WNBA

Regular season

† Denotes seasons in which Cruz won a WNBA championship
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2014 New York 34 34 27.1 .462 .347 .692 3.5 3.6 1.3 0.3 2.1 7.7
2015† Minnesota 22 17 29.1 .474 .250 .786 3.6 3.0 1.0 0.2 2.2 8.0
2016 Minnesota 6 0 10.0 .455 1.000 1.000 1.0 2.0 0.3 0.0 0.3 2.8
Career 3 years, 2 teams 62 51 26.2 .466 .314 .753 3.3 3.2 1.1 0.2 2.0 7.4

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2015† Minnesota 10 0 22.1 .385 .308 .667 2.1 2.7 0.9 0.1 1.6 5.2
2016 Minnesota 6 0 8.5 .200 .500 .000 1.0 1.2 0.3 0.0 0.7 1.2
Career 2 years, 1 team 16 0 17.0 .343 .333 .667 1.7 2.1 0.7 0.1 1.3 3.7

EuroLeague

EuroLeague winner
Season Team GP MPP PPP RPP APP
2009–10 SpainRivas Ecópolis 13 32.2 12.4 4.8 2.5
2010–11 SpainRivas Ecópolis 12 29.8 7.6 3.9 2.7
2011–12 SpainRivas Ecópolis 21 32.9 9.9 4.8 2.9
2012–13 SpainRivas Ecópolis 15 31.8 14.1 4.7 2.7
2013–14 RussiaNadezhda Orenburg 17 32.1 8.8 3.7 4.6
2014–15 RussiaNadezhda Orenburg 16 30.6 9.3 5.0 4.1
2015–16 RussiaNadezhda Orenburg 16 29.8 9.1 4.7 3.9
2016–17 RussiaDinamo Kursk 17 31.6 8.2 4.2 5.5
2017–18 RussiaDinamo Kursk 10 27.9 6.0 5.4 5.0
2018–19 RussiaDinamo Kursk 18 27.9 5.9 4.1 3.7
2019–20 TurkeyFenerbahçe 8 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,[6] three World Championships and five European Championships:[7]

Her buzzer-beater shot against Turkey in the 2016 Rio Olympics quarter-finals is one of her key shots with the national team.[8][9][10]

Notes

  1. ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cruz and the second or maternal family name is Lebrato.

References

  1. ^ "Anna Cruz, fichaje top para el Barça CBS". fcbarcelona.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  2. ^ "FIBA Europe profile". fiba.com. Archived from the original on 15 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Federación Española de Baloncesto – Competiciones FEB". competiciones.feb.es. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Anna Cruz: Cuando estoy de bajón me alegra ver la canasta de los Juegos. Noticias de Baloncesto". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Anna Cruz profile, EuroLeague Women 2017 | FIBA.COM". FIBA.COM. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  6. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Anna Cruz". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 22 April 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  7. ^ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Watch Spain's one-legged buzzer beater to beat Turkey". SBNation.com. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  9. ^ "Basketball: Cruz buzzer beater takes Spain to semis". Reuters. 16 August 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  10. ^ "Spain beats Turkey 64–62 on buzzer beater in women's hoops". USA TODAY. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
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