Maite Cazorla


María Teresa Cazorla Medina, 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.

Youth career

Coming from a family of professional basketball players, 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.

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. 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.

Oregon statistics

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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.

WNBA career statistics

Regular season

Club career

Back in Spain, in June 2019, she signed for CB Avenida, 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. After the 2022-2023 season, she moved to ZVVZ USK Praha, where she helped win a Euroleague Women title in 2025.

European Cups/League statistics

Cazorla has played in seven seasons in European league play, as well as in the Spanish league. Her best year was in the 2023-2024 EuroLeague Women season, where she registered 8.9 points, 2.2 rebounds and 5.4 assists per game.
Statistics through November 19,2025
SeasonTeamGPPPGRPGAPG
2019–2020 EuroCupPerfumerías Avenida104.40.62.4
2020–2021 EuroLeaguePerfumerías Avenida107.31.73.0
2021-2022 EuroLeaguePefumerias Avienda197.51.93.5
2022-2023 EuroLeaguePerfumeria Avienda179.21.44.1
2023-2024 EuroleagueZVVZ USK Praha178.92.25.4
2024-2025 EuroleagueZVVZ USK Praha126.82.14.6
2025-2026 EuroleagueZVVZ USK Praha00.00.00.0

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. 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.