Queralt Casas

Queralt Casas
No. 10 – Valencia Basket
Position	Shooting guard
League	LF
Personal information
Born	18 November 1992 (age 32); Bescanó, Girona, Spain
Listed height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight	142 lb (64 kg)
Career information
Playing career	2012–present
Career history
2006–2010	Segle XXI (youth/LF2)
2010–2012	CDB Zaragoza
2012–2014	Rivas Ecópolis
2014–2015	Galatasaray SK
2015–2016	Nantes Rezé Basket
2016–2018	Basket Landes
2018	Flammes Carolo
2018-2019	Sopron Basket
2019-present	Valencia Basket
Career highlights and awards
	Spanish League champion (2014); Spanish Cup champion (2013); Turkish League champion (2015); EuroCup champion (2021);
Representing Spain
World Cup
EuroBasket

Queralt Casas Carreras^[a] (born 18 November 1992) is a Spanish basketball player. She plays as a forward in the Spanish League for Valencia Basket. Also a member of the Spanish national team, she won the gold medal at the EuroBasket Women in 2013 and 2019 with the senior team.^[1]

Club career

Casas started playing with the youth teams of Segle XXI in 2006, reaching the senior team and playing in the Spanish League second tier for the last two seasons. From 2010 to 2012 she played for defunct club CDB Zaragoza in the Spanish League top tier. In April 2012 she signed a training camp contract with WNBA's Minnesota Lynx.^[2] She signed for one of the top teams of the moment, Rivas Ecópolis, winning the 2013 Cup and the 2014 League.

In 2014 she transferred to Turkish team Galatasaray Odeabank, winning the Turkish League in 2015. She then moved to France, where she played one season for Nantes Rezé Basket, two seasons for Basket Landes and a few months for Flammes Carolo Basket.^[3]^[4] In December 2018 she signed for Sopron Basket of the Hungarian League.^[5]

She returned to Spain after 5 years to play for Valencia Basket in the 2018-19 league.^[6]

European cups statistics

	EuroCup winner

Season	Team	GP	MPP	PPP	RPP	APP
2010–11 EuroCup	CDB Zaragoza	10	12.2	4.5	1.4	0.8
2012–13 EuroLeague	Rivas Ecopolis	15	21.0	7.5	2.0	1.3
2013–14 EuroLeague	Rivas Ecopolis	11	30.2	11.5	3.1	1.6
2014–15 EuroLeague	Galatasaray S.K	14	30.9	5.4	3.1	2.1
2015–16 EuroCup	Nantes Rezé Basket	10	33.8	17.0	6.5	3.9
2016–17 EuroCup	Basket Landes	2	31.0	16.5	4.0	3.0
2017–18 EuroCup	Basket Landes	8	28.0	12.8	4.9	3.3
2018–19 EuroLeague	Flammes Carolo	4	27.1	11.8	4.3	4.0
2018–19 EuroLeague	Sopron Basket	13	31.7	8.4	5.2	3.7
2020-21 EuroCup	Valencia Basket	7	26.4	10.6	3.9	3.6

National team

Casas started playing with Spain's youth teams at 15, winning a total of six medals from 2008 to 2012.^[7] She made her debut with the senior team in 2013, when she was 20 years old. She won the gold medal at the EuroBasket Women 2013. After participating in a few friendlies in 2014 and 2015, she played again official games in February 2018, when coach Lucas Mondelo called her up for the 2019 EuroBasket qualifiers. Up to 2021, she had 78 caps with 3.5 PPG.^[8]

2008 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship (youth) (All-Tournament Team)
2009 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth)
2010 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship (youth) (All-Tournament Team)
2011 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth) (MVP)^[9]
2011 FIBA Under-19 World Championship (youth)
2012 FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship (youth) (All-Tournament Team)^[10]
2013 Eurobasket
2018 World Championship
2019 Eurobasket
7th 2021 Eurobasket
6th 2020 Summer Olympics
2023 Eurobasket

Notes

^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Casas and the second or maternal family name is Carreras.

References

^ "Web Queralt Casas 9: Biografía". Web Queralt Casas 9. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
^ The WNBA looks for her Ricky Rubio in Queralt Casas. Marca
^ "Flammes Carolo : Des prolongations enregistrées, Queralt Casas dans le viseur". 10 April 2018.
^ "Web Queralt Casas 9: Queralt Casas ficha por el Flammes Carolo". 2 June 2018.
^ "Queralt Casas ficha por el Sopron". 10 December 2018.
^ Valencia signing
^ "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
^ "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2022.
^ MVP Casas leads all tournament team. 2011 U-20 EC's website
^ "Queralt Casas – Spain and Rivas Ecopolis | FIBA Europe". www.fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

External links

Queralt Casas at FIBA (archive)
Queralt Casas at Eurobasket.com
Queralt Casas international stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Queralt Casas Carreras at FEB (in Spanish)
Queralt Casas Carreras at Olympics.com
Queralt Casas Carreras at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
Queralt Casas at Olympedia
Queralt Casas I Carreras (and here) at the Comité Olímpico Español (in Spanish)
Queralt Casas I – COE – Paris 2024 (in Spanish)

[1] In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Casas and the second or maternal family name is Carreras.

[2] "Web Queralt Casas 9: Biografía". Web Queralt Casas 9. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

[3] The WNBA looks for her Ricky Rubio in Queralt Casas. Marca

[4] "Flammes Carolo : Des prolongations enregistrées, Queralt Casas dans le viseur". 10 April 2018.

[5] "Web Queralt Casas 9: Queralt Casas ficha por el Flammes Carolo". 2 June 2018.

[6] "Queralt Casas ficha por el Sopron". 10 December 2018.

[7] Valencia signing

[8] "archive.fiba.com: Players". archive.fiba.com. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

[9] "Selección Española Absoluta Femenina de Baloncesto". seleccionfemenina.feb.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2022.

[10] MVP Casas leads all tournament team. 2011 U-20 EC's website

[11] "Queralt Casas – Spain and Rivas Ecopolis | FIBA Europe". www.fibaeurope.com. Retrieved 10 March 2018.

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