Maite Cazorla

María Teresa Cazorla Medina^[a] (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.^[1]

Maite Cazorla

No. 5 – ZVVZ USK Praha
Position	Guard
League	Czech Women's Basketball League
Personal information
Born	(1997-06-18) 18 June 1997 (age 28) Las Palmas, Spain
Listed height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Listed weight	155 lb (70 kg)
Career information
High school	Segle XXI (Barcelona, Spain)
College	Oregon (2015–2019)
WNBA draft	2019: 2nd round, 23rd overall pick
Drafted by	Atlanta Dream
Playing career	2011–present
Career history
2011–2015	Segle XXI (youth/LF2)
2019	Atlanta Dream
2019–2023	Perfumerías Avenida
2023–present	ZVVZ USK Praha
Career highlights
EuroLeague Women champion (2025) Spanish League champion (2021) Spanish Cup champion (2020) 2x All Pac-12 (2018, 2019)
Stats at WNBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference
Medals EuroBasket 2023 Israel/Slovenia

Youth career

Coming from a family of professional basketball players,^[2] 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.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]

Oregon statistics

Source^[6]

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field goal percentage	3P%	3-point field goal percentage	FT%	Free throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

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
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.^[7]

WNBA career statistics

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game	RPG	Rebounds per game
APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game	BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game
TO	Turnovers per game	FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
Bold	Career best	°	League leader

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2019	Atlanta	31	1	15.4	.312	.236	.875	0.7	1.6	0.6	0.0	0.9	3.0
Career	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,^[8] 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.^[9]

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.^[4][10] 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.^[11]

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

Notes

1. In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Cazorla and the second or maternal family name is Medina.