Nuria Martínez

Nuria Martínez
No. 1 – Spar CityLift Girona
Position	Guard
League	EuroCup Women; LF
Personal information
Born	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);
	Stats at Basketball Reference
Representing Spain
World Championships
EuroBasket

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]

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]

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