Anna Cruz


Anna Cruz Lebrato is a Spanish professional basketball player with the Minnesota Lynx of the WNBA. She plays for Fenerbahçe, Minnesota Lynx and Spain's national basketball team. She won the 2015 WNBA, the 2017 EuroLeague and the 2017 EuroBasket.

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.
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.
At Dynamo Kursk between 2016 and 2019, she won her first Euroleague. title in 2017 under coach Lucas Mondelo. She's been playing for Fenerbahçe since 2019.

Career statistics

WNBA

SeasonTeamPJMPPPPPRPPAPP
2014New York Liberty3427.17.73.53.6
2015Minnesota Lynx2229.18.03.63.0
2016Minnesota Lynx610.02.81.02.0
Total6226.27.43.33.2

EuroLeague

SeasonTeamGPMPPPPPRPPAPP
2009–10Rivas Ecópolis1332.212.44.82.5
2010–11Rivas Ecópolis1229.87.63.92.7
2011–12Rivas Ecópolis2132.99.94.82.9
2012–13Rivas Ecópolis1531.814.14.72.7
2013–14Nadezhda Orenburg1732.18.83.74.6
2014–15Nadezhda Orenburg1630.69.35.04.1
2015–16Nadezhda Orenburg1629.89.14.73.9
2016–17Dinamo Kursk1731.68.24.25.5
2017–18Dinamo Kursk1027.96.05.45.0
2018–19Dinamo Kursk1827.95.94.13.7
Total15530.69.14.53.4

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 2009at 22. Up to 2017, she had 130 caps with 7 PPG, participating in the Rio 2016 Olympics, two World Championships and five European Championships:
Her buzzer-beater shot against Turkey in the 2016 Rio Olympics quarter-finals is one of her key shots with the national team.