Marina Mabrey

Marina Mabrey (born September 14, 1996)^[1] is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Mabrey was drafted in the second round (19th pick overall) by the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2019 WNBA draft. She previously played with the United States women's national under-19 basketball team and the University of Notre Dame.

Marina Mabrey

Mabrey with the Dallas Wings in 2021
No. 4 – Chicago Sky
Position	Shooting guard
League	WNBA
Personal information
Born	(1996-09-14) September 14, 1996 (age 27) Belmar, New Jersey, U.S.
Listed height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Listed weight	170 lb (77 kg)
Career information
High school	Manasquan (Manasquan, New Jersey)
College	Notre Dame (2015–2019)
WNBA draft	2019: 2nd round, 19th overall pick
Selected by the Los Angeles Sparks
Playing career	2019–present
Career history
2019–2020	Los Angeles Sparks
2019–2020	TTT Riga
2020–2022	Dallas Wings
2020–2021	Bnot Hertzeliya
2021–2022	Perth Lynx
2022-2023	Beretta Famila Schio
2023–present	Chicago Sky
2023–present	Çukurova Basketbol
Career highlights and awards
Champions Lega Basket Femminile (2022-23) 2022–23 EuroLeague Women Third place Second Team All-Euroleague (2022-23) Winner Coppa Italia (2023) Second Team All-WNBL (2021-22) Douglas BBL Elite Division champion (2020) NCAA champion (2018) Second-team All-ACC (2018) ACC All-Freshman Team (2016)
Stats at WNBA.com
Medals Women’s Basketball Representing  United States U18 and U19 2014 U18 Colorado Springs Team Competition Representing Beretta Famila Schio EuroLeague Women 2023 Prague Beretta Famila Schio Lega Basket Femminile 2023 Schio Beretta Famila Schio

She was traded to the Dallas Wings in 2020^[2] and regularly adds international experience including Latvian club TTT Riga,^[3] Israeli club Bnot Hertzeliya,^[4] Australian club Perth Lynx^[5] and Italians PF Schio.^[6]

Early life

Mabrey was raised in Belmar, New Jersey to Patti and Roy Mabrey.^[7] She has two brothers Ryan and Roy and two sisters Michaela and Dara. It was Roy's and Michaela's love of basketball that first involved Marina in the game. Her mother coached basketball in their area and Marina, Roy and Michaela would go along with their mother and join in the practices. Fierce basketball competition became a part of family life in the Mabrey household with Marina frequently competing with her older brother and sister in their driveway and local park.^[8][9][10]

Mabrey attended Manasquan High School in Manasquan, New Jersey, where she was part of two teams that won the state Tournament of Champions^[11] and shared most valuable player honors in the McDonald's All-American Game in 2015.^[10]

Despite her sister Michaela's success as part of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team^[9] Marina doubted whether or not to choose that college when she was considering many offers for a basketball scholarship after high school. She chose to join up with coach Muffet McGraw's squad in 2015.^[10]

College career

Mabrey joined sister Michaela in the 2015–16 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team following a season in which the team were runners-up in the national championship but required to be rebuilt. She quickly established herself and won "rookie of the week" in November 2015 after recording a triple-double at Valparaiso. Her 35 appearances as a rookie, 85 three-pointers (which ranks as the second most for a single season in program history) and an impressive 10.7 points per game gained her honors in the ACC All-Freshman Team (Blue Ribbon Panel & Coaches) and ACC All-Academic Team.^[12]

The 2016–17 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team reached the Elite Eight but fell for the second year running to Stanford Cardinal women's basketball. Mabrey was chosen along with Arike Ogunbowale and Lindsay Allen for the regional all-tournament team.^[12]

The Notre Dame team for the following two years saw records fall, two national championship games and one championship victory. Mabrey was a key component of a team that survived a rash of injuries that won the 2018 national championship and commented later that the injuries had given the now smaller team an added mental toughness that "there is no-one else to sub in" and that they had to battle through.^[13] The fighting mentality led to comebacks throughout the season with Mabrey moving to a more direct point guard role and taking more leadership with the largest fightback in Notre Dame history coming back against Tennessee from 23 points behind. The team executed the largest comeback in a championship game in NCAA women's basketball history, overcoming a 15-point deficit to achieve a 61–58 victory over fellow No. 1 seed Mississippi State.^[14]

She graduated in 2019 as Notre Dame's all-time leader in made three-pointers with 274; 1,896 career points ranks eighth all-time and a career 81.7 percent from the line – ranking sixth for Notre Dame.^[12]

Notre Dame statistics

Source^[15]

Legend

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field goal percentage	3P%	3-point field goal percentage	FT%	Free throw percentage
RPG	Rebounds per game	APG	Assists per game	SPG	Steals per game
BPG	Blocks per game	PPG	Points per game	Bold	Career high

Year	Team	GP	Points	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
2015–16	Notre Dame	35	373	51.4%	45.3%	81.7%	2.8	2.0	1.5	0.3	10.7
2016–17	Notre Dame	37	540	47.1%	38.3%	84.3%	3.0	2.5	1.5	0.5	14.6
2017–18	Notre Dame	38	549	45.8%	39.0%	85.7%	4.4	4.4	2.1	0.3	14.4
2018–19	Notre Dame	35	434	46.6%	40.8%	69.4%	2.7	4.9	1.3	0.3	12.4
Career		145	1896	47.4%	40.0%	81.7%	3.2	3.4	1.6	0.4	13.1

Professional career

United States

 

Mabrey with the LA Sparks in 2019.

Mabrey was drafted 19th overall in the 2019 WNBA draft by the Los Angeles Sparks.^[16][17] The Sparks, under new head coach Derek Fisher, reached the play-off semi-finals with a regular season record of 22–12.^[18] Mabrey saw limited minutes during the playoffs.^[19] She appeared in 31 games with the Sparks during her rookie season and averaged 4.0 points, 1.2 rebounds and 1.0 assists while shooting 34.4% from the field.^[20]

Prior to the 2020 WNBA season, Mabrey was traded by the Sparks to the Dallas Wings for a 2021 second round draft choice.^[20] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 WNBA season was reduced to a 22-game regular season at IMG Academy, without fans present.^[21] In 19 games for the Wings, Mabrey averaged 10.0 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.3 steals per game.^[22]

Mabrey returned to the Dallas Wings for the 2021 WNBA season.^[22]

Chicago Sky (2023-present)

On February 11, 2023 Mabrey was traded to the Chicago Sky in a four-team trade involving the New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury, Dallas Wings, and Chicago Sky.

Overseas

For the 2019–20 season, Mabrey moved to Latvia to play for TTT Riga.^[23] In her first game^[24] she scored 24 points and led her team with eight rebounds to win 89–81 over defending champions UMMC Ekaterinburg which contained WNBA players Brittney Griner, Courtney Vandersloot and Emma Meesseman. Riga won only two of the following nine matches that were played.^[25] Mabrey settled in well in a young team^[26] and at the suspension of play she was eighth in the league in points per game (15.8).^[27] She left Latvia in mid-March after European play was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[28][29]

For the 2020–21 season, Mabrey moved to Israel to play for Bnot Hertzeliya. In 22 games, she averaged 23.2 points, 8.0 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 2.4 steals per game.^[22]

Mabrey signed with the Perth Lynx in Australia for the 2021–22 WNBL season.^[30] In her debut for the Lynx on January 2, 2022, she scored a game-high 30 points with seven 3-pointers in an 88–86 loss to the Adelaide Lightning.^[31] On January 23, she scored 34 points in an 86–81 win over the Sydney Uni Flames.^[32] Following this game, she was unavailable for over a month due to a foot injury^[33][34] but returned to contribute to the Lynx ending the season as runners-up in the WBNL to Melbourne Boomers after losing the final series by two matches to one.^[35]

In 2023 she won her first national title since the 2018 NCAA tournament when she and team Famila Schio won the Coppa Italia beating Venezia 73-62 with Mabrey scoring eleven points in the final.^[36] Having qualified for the Scudetto playoffs, Mabrey's twenty four points and dominant performance in the third quarter of the quarter final pulled her team from a weak first half against Campobasso to a twenty four point victory. She followed this up two weeks later with seventeen point performance and vital bucket and interception in the last seconds to win a bronze medal with PF Schio for third place in the 2022–23 EuroLeague Women finals in Prague. This was the first medal performance for an Italian team in twenty years and PF Schio's first ever appearance in the finals.^[37] Within two weeks she added the gold medal for the Italian championship turning in a thirty seven point performance in the final game including a crucial three pointer in the last seconds as PF Schio beat Virtus Bologna 84-79 in the decisive second match of the play-offs.^[38]

Professional Statistics

WNBA

Regular season

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2019	Los Angeles	31	0	11.5	.344	.273	.875	1.2	1.0	0.6	0.2	0.8	4.0
2020	Dallas	19	12	21.3	.430	.418	.667	3.1	2.3	1.3	0.1	1.6	10.0
2021	Dallas	32	8	24.2	.405	.342	.882	3.9	2.9	1.0	0.3	2.1	13.3
2022	Dallas	34	32	28.0	.420	.351	.681	3.6	3.7	0.8	0.4	2.4	13.6
Career	4 years, 2 teams	116	52	21.4	.407	.348	.763	3.0	2.5	0.9	0.3	1.8	10.4

Postseason

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TO	PPG
2019	Los Angeles	3	0	5.3	.333	.500	.000	1.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.3	1.7
2021	Dallas	1	0	17.0	.125	.250	.000	3.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.0
2022	Dallas	3	3	32.7	.429	.455	1.000	4.0	1.7	0.7	0.7	4.7	15.0
Career	3 years, 2 teams	7	3	18.7	.375	.412	1.000	2.6	1.3	0.3	0.3	2.1	7.6

EuroLeague^[39]

Year	Team	Games	Min	PTS	FG	2PTS	3PTS	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	PF	TO	STL	BLK	+/-	Ef
2019–20	TTT Riga	9	245	142	45/142 31.7%	25/69 36.2%	20/73 27.4%	32/40 80%	3	35	38	35	29	45	10	1	−14	76
2022-2023	PF Schio	14	28.8	14.7	40.3%	42.7%	36.2%	63.3%	0.8	3.3	4.1	3.6	1.9	2.4	1.2	0.1	2.1	12.1

D1 (Israel)^[40]

		G	MIN	FGM/A	FG%	3PM/A	3P%	FTM/A	FT%	RO	RD	REB	AST	PF	ST	BS	TO	PTS	RNK
2020–21	Bnot Hertzeliya	22	33.2	106/190	55.8	66/192	34.4	100/119	84.0	1.1	6.9	8.0	6.9	3.3	2.4	0.2	4.6	23.2	22.3

WNBL (Australia)^[41]

Year	Team	G	PTS	FGA	FGM	FG%	3PA	3PM	3P%	FTA	FTM	FT&	DEF	OFF	REB	AST	BLK	STL	TO
2022	Perth Lynx	16	305	270	104	38.5	103	36	35	76	61	80.3	59	13	72	46	1	21	41

Italy Seria A^[42]

Year	Team	Games	Min	PTS	2PTS	3PTS	FT	RO	RD	RT	AS	PF	BS	STL	TO
2022-2023	PF Schio	26	684	486	99-204	76-103	60-74	23	90	113	80	53	6	26	59

Personal life

In 2019, Mabrey started her own shirts called This Is My Kitchen in reference to sexism in sports and her 2018 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship win which she sold online for a limited time.^[43]

References

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External links

• Notre Dame Fighting Irish bio