Mónica Messa
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| Born | Mónica Messa López 7 October 1966 (age 55) Madrid, Spain | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spanish | |||||||||||||
| Listed height | 179 cm (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||
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| Playing career | 1983–1995 | |||||||||||||
| Position | Shooting guard | |||||||||||||
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| 1983-1988 | Real Canoe | |||||||||||||
| 1988-1989 | Caja Toledo | |||||||||||||
| 1989-1993 | BEX Banco Exterior | |||||||||||||
| 1993-1995 | Real Canoe | |||||||||||||
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Mónica Messa López[a] (born 7 October 1966) is a former Spanish basketball player, captain of the Spanish team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.[1] She won the gold medal at the 1993 European Championship.[2]
Club career[]
Born and raised in Madrid, she started playing basketball with school club , and then she played at Real Canoe NC from her junior years to her debut in the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto, where she won 3 consecutive titles from 1984 to 1986.
As one of the most promising young players of her time, she got transferred to the Caja Toledo - BEX Banco Exterior project, with other young Spanish prospects in order to prepare for the 1992 Summer Olympics.
National team[]
She made her debut with Spain women's national basketball team at the age of 19. She played with the senior team for 10 years, from 1985 to 1995, with a total of 185 caps and 4.3 PPG. She participated in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and four European Championships:[3][4]
- 7th 1982 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship for Women (youth)
- 8th (youth)
- 4th (youth)
- 7th 1985 FIBA Under-19 World Championship for Women (youth)
- 10th 1985 Eurobasket
- 6th 1987 Eurobasket
- 5th 1992 Summer Olympics
1993 Eurobasket- 9th 1995 Eurobasket
Notes[]
- ^ This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Messa and the second or maternal family name is López.
References[]
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mónica Messa". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
- ^ "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
External links[]
- Mónica Messa López at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)
- Monica Messa Lopez at the International Olympic Committee
- Monica Messa Lopez at Olympics.com
- Mónica Messa at Olympedia
- Mónica Messa on Twitter
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- 1966 births
- Living people
- Spanish women's basketball players
- Olympic basketball players of Spain
- Basketball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Shooting guards