Marta Xargay Casademont (born 20 December 1990) is a retired Spanish professional

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player. She played for

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of the WNBA, and for several European teams in

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and

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. She played for the

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from 2011 to 2020. She won

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with Perfumerías Avenida Baloncesto. She left Spain in 2015, joining both USK Praha of the

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in 2015 and the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA on 11 February 2015. In September 2018, she signed for

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of the

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and in January 2020, she returned to her youth club

Uni Girona CB Uni Girona Club de Basquet, also known as Spar Girona (previously Spar Citylift Girona) for sponsorship reasons, is a Spanish professional women's basketball club from Girona. History Founded in 2005 from the fusion of local clubs CE Santa Eugè ...

. After not playing in the 2020-21 season, she announced her retirement in July 202

Club career

Xargay started playing basketball from a young age in clubs in her hometown

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, entering the youth levels of

at 14 and making it to the senior team and the Spanish second tier. In 2009 she signed for

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from

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, where in the following six seasons she won two leagues, three

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and one

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. During 2015 and 2016, she played both in the WNBA with

and the European season with

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, where she won the 2016, 2017 and 2018

. Due to her commitment to the Spain national team, she opted not to play in the WNBA in 2017 or 2018. She played for one and a half seasons in

n team

, before returning to

in January 2020.

National team

Xargay started playing with

's youth teams at 16, winning a total of five medals from 2006 to 2010. She made her debut with the senior team in 2011 and up to her last game in 2020, she had 147 caps and 9,2 PPG, participating in the

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Olympics, two

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and five

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: *

2006 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship The 2006 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship was the 20th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. The cities of Linares, Andújar and Martos, in Spain, hosted the tournament. Spain won the trophy for the first time. Germany and Iceland ...

(''youth'') * Silver medal icon

2007 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship The 2007 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship was an international basketball competition held in Spain in 2007. Final ranking 1. 2. Greece 3. Latvia 4. Lithuania 5. Spain 6. France 7. Croatia 8. Turkey 9. Germany 10. Russia ...

(''youth'') * 5th

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(''youth'') * Silver medal icon

2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship The 2009 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship was the 12th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship. The cities of Rhodes (city), Rhodes and Ialysos, in Greece, hosted the tournament. Greece national basketball team, Greece won their second ...

(''youth'') * Silver medal icon

2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship The 2009 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (Maori: 2009 FIBA I-Raro I Te 19 Tau Toa o Te Ao) was the 9th edition of the FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup, FIBA U19 World Championship, the biennial international men's youth basketball championship ...

(''youth'') (''MVP'') * Silver medal icon

2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship was the 13th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship. The cities of Zadar, Crikvenica and Makarska, in Croatia, hosted the tournament. France national basketball team, France won their first titl ...

(''youth'') * 9th 2011 Eurobasket * Gold medal europe

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2014 World Championship * Bronze medal europe

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2018 World Championship * Gold medal europe

2019 Eurobasket

Personal life

Xargay is married to WNBA star

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. The couple got engaged in May 2021 in Papago Park, Phoenix, AZ. On 6 July 2021 the couple married on the rooftop of Stewart’s apartment building. In August 2021, the couple’s first child, Ruby Mae Stewart Xargay, was born in Idaho via surrogacy. In May 2023, the couple announced via

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that Xargay was pregnant with their second child. In October 2023, the couple's second child, Theo Josep Stewart Xargay, was born.

Career statistics

WNBA

Source

Regular season

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

, style="text-align:left;", Phoenix , 15 , , 6 , , 19.7 , , .400 , , .333 , , .706 , , 1.7 , , 2.7 , , 1.1 , , .2 , , 1.8 , , 5.7 , - class="sortbottom" , style="text-align:left;", Career , style="text-align:left;", 2 years, 1 team , 35 , , 14 , , 18.4 , , .396 , , .349 , , .719 , , 1.7 , , 2.5 , , .7 , , .2 , , 2.0 , , 4.7

Playoffs

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EuroLeague and EuroCup statistics

References

External links

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