Maya Moore

Maya Moore
Moore in 2019
Information about the player
Full name	Maya April Moore
birthday	11th June 1989 (age 31)
place of birth	Jefferson City , Missouri , United States
size	183 cm
position	Small forward
college	Connecticut
WNBA Draft	2011 , 1st pick , Minnesota Lynx
Club information
society	Minnesota Lynx
league	WNBA
Jersey number	23
Clubs as active
2011–2012	Ros Casares Valencia
2012-2015	Shanxi Xing Rui Flame
2017-2018	UGMK Yekaterinburg
WNBA clubs as active
2011-2018	Minnesota Lynx
National team 1
2010-2018	United States
1 As of July 30, 2020

Maya April Moore (born June 11, 1989 in Jefferson City , Missouri ) is an American basketball player . With a height of 183 cm, she plays in the position of the small forward . With the Minnesota Lynx , Moore won the WNBA championship four times (2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017) , as part of the US national team , she was world champion in 2010 and 2014 and Olympic champion in 2012 and 2016. She has been on a break for personal reasons since 2019.

Career

college

Moore with the Wade Trophy 2011

Moore, who grew up in Jefferson City and Lawrenceville , Georgia , worked for the Connecticut Huskies at the University of Connecticut from 2007 to 2011 , winning the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship with them in 2009 and 2010 . The huskies, who in addition to Moore had players like Tina Charles in their ranks, meanwhile achieved a series of 90 victories. Moore, who scored more than 3000 points for the Huskies, was the first ever player to receive the Wade Trophy three times (2009, 2010, 2011) as the best player in the NCAA Division I.

WNBA

Moore at the 2015 WNBA All-Star Game

In the 2011 WNBA Draft , the Minnesota Lynx selected Moore first. While such an early pick in the draft is otherwise reserved for weaker teams, the Lynx already had several top players in their ranks with Seimone Augustus , Rebekkah Brunson and Lindsay Whalen . In 2010, after many player transfers, the Lynx just failed to qualify for the playoffs and were then lucky in the WNBA Draft Lottery and received the first option. Moore became only the second player (after Cheryl Ford in the 2003 season ) to receive the WNBA Rookie of the Year Award for best league newcomer and win the championship in her first WNBA year . The success was completed with a 3-0 final win against the Atlanta Dream team . This was followed by another finals in the 2012 WNBA season , which was lost in four games against the Indiana Fever . In 2013 Moore won her second WNBA championship with the Lynx, and she was also awarded the WNBA Finals MVP Award for most valuable player in the final series against the Atlanta Dream.

In the 2014 season she set several WNBA records when she got at least 30 points in a total of twelve games, four of them in a row. On July 22 of the same year she scored 48 points in a game against the Atlanta Dream, which was the second highest score in league history. At the end of the season Moore was honored with the award as the most valuable player in the league . However, she was eliminated with the Lynx for the first time early in the Conference Finals against the Phoenix Mercury . In 2015 Moore won their third WNBA championship with the team. Among other things, in the third final game she achieved the decisive success in the basket in the last second (" Buzzer Beater "). In 2016 , the Lynx reached the final series again and this time the series just went out after five games in favor of the opponent, the Los Angeles Sparks . In the 2017 season , the title went back to Minnesota. By winning 3-2 in the final against last year's champions from Los Angeles Moore was able to win her fourth WNBA championship. In 2018 , Moore and her team could barely reach the playoffs, which ended for them after a defeat in the first round.

After the 2018 season, Moore did not play any more games in the WNBA for the time being. In the 2019 and 2020 season, she did not play in the WNBA for personal reasons. Up to this point, she played in 8 WNBA seasons in the regular season 271 games, standing 271 times in the starting line-up and scored 4984 points, 1589 rebounds and 895 assists. In 56 playoff games (56 of them in the starting line-up) she scored 1,077 points, 338 rebounds and 180 assists.

Europe and Asia

During the WNBA season break, Moore played for clubs in Europe and Asia. In the 2011/12 season she played for the Spanish club Ros Casares Valencia and won the Euroleague Women with them . From 2012 to 2016 Moore was active in China for Shanxi Xing Rui Flame and was able to win the WCBA championship three times with the team. Most recently she played for the Russian top team from UGMK Yekaterinburg in the 2017/18 season , where she won the Euroleague for the second time.

National team

Maya Moore medal table
Basketball (women)
United States
Olympic games
gold	2012 London
gold	2016 Rio de Janeiro
World Championship
gold	2010 Czech Republic
gold	2014 Turkey

Moore was already internationally active in the youth field for the USA and won the title with the national team at the U-18 American Basketball Championships in 2006 . This qualified the team for the U-19 Women's Basketball World Cup in 2007 , where Moore and the team also won the title. In addition, after she had already won the Universiade the year before , she was appointed to the national team of the United States as the only college player for the 2010 World Cup and also won the title there.

In 2012, Moore was an important support in winning the national team at the London Olympics . Two years later she won her second world championship and was voted the most valuable player of the tournament . At the following Olympic Games in Rio, she won the title again with the national team. In 2018 Moore decided not to take part in the World Cup.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rich Elliott: Maya Moore and mom, a tie that binds. Connecticut Post , February 27, 2011, accessed July 13, 2014 . 
2. ^ Again, Moore wins Wade Trophy. (No longer available online.) NCAA April 2, 2011, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; accessed on July 13, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Maya Moore Takes Home The MVP. WNBA, accessed July 13, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Kent Youngblood: Lynx's Moore stands out early with spectacular start. Star Tribune , May 26, 2014, accessed July 14, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Jared Nelson: Minnesota Lynx: Maya Moore scores 48 in two-overtime win. St. Paul Pioneer Press , July 23, 2014, accessed August 4, 2014 . 
6. ↑ Maya Moore Named 2014 MVP Presented by Samsung. WNBA, August 21, 2014, accessed August 23, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Josh Zavadil: Moore Drains Buzzer-Beater, Lifts Lynx To Game 3 Win. WNBA, October 10, 2015, accessed October 16, 2015 . 
8. ^ Moore named MVP of 2014 FIBA ​​World Championship for Women, headlines All-Star Five. FIBA , October 5, 2014, accessed October 7, 2014 . 

Web links

Commons : Maya Moore  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Official website (English)
• WNBA player profile
• Statistics about the player on basketball-reference.com (engl.)
• FIBA overview of participation in international tournaments
• FIBA Europe overview of participation in European tournaments
• Maya Moore in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )