Maria Stepanova, Basketball Player, - Biography,
Russian International Basketball Player
The Tallest Blonde Women's Volleyball or Basketball Player
Height: 6 foot 8 or 2 Metres 3 cm tall.
Weight:
187 lbs. / 84,8 kg.
born February 23, 1979, in the Village Shpakovskoe
in Russia
Maria Stepanovais first played basketball when she was a 8 year old. She is. a Russian professional and Olympic female basketball player. In the US, she plays for the Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
At a height of six foot eight inches, she is the second-tallest player in the WNBA (with Lindsay Taylor & Katie Feenstra ). Just Margo Dydek, 7' 2", is taller.
She grew up in Tosno.
She played for the Phoneix team from 1998-2001, where she played 99 WNBA games, including 20 against Detroit in 2001. Her career high.
She then took some year off to have a baby, but then came back and played in the 2005 season, where she has not played that many games yet.
Somebody said they once saw her standing next to Gamova, in the Athens Olympics.
She as a 203 cm tall centre was named the 2005 FIBA Europe Player of the Year and EuroBasket Women 2005 Most Valuable Player, on Russia’s silver medal team after averaging 18 points and 9.6 rebounds. She was the key of of Samara’s team that won 2005 EuroLeague title. As Samara trailed in the championship game she scored 9 points and took three offensive rebounds in the last 5 minutes, coming from behind to win 69-66. In Samara's 1st eleven games, she averaged 11.4 rebounds a game, 2nd-top in the Euroleague Women, and 2.3 blocks, the top rating for the league. And earned a Olympic bronze at 2004 Athens Games, and was a member of 2000 & 1996 (At 17) Olympic teams. She did not do that much for the Russian 1996 Olympic team, scoring between a 1 and 2 pts a game on avaerage, as she was not a full team player yet. Probably there just for experience. She did more at the 2000 Games, and with Elena Baranova was seen as one of the key players. By 2004, she could be said to be leading the player to the Bronze medal. From 1998-2001, she played in WNBA with Phoenix Mercury.
In early 2006, as of her play at BC Volgaburmash Samara in 2005, she recieved the FIBA award for player of the player. From votes from the international media.
She did not play any games in 2006 in the WNBA.
But in 2006 she did play on the South Korean basketball league. Where she was celebrated as the only player to score a dunk in the league, while she was playing at the Cheonan Savers. As she was the only player in the league to do so, they decided to make dunks be worth 3 pts, to enliven the league.
Samara is a city on the Volga River, one of the largest in Russia, their translated name in English is the Samara Dolphins. Also in 2006, this team did not win the title. But she was still in the team, and is for 2007. Just like for football, Russian sport now has more money in it, after the deep depression during decommunisation. As businessmen are now putting money in it. So now more players stay in Russia, than in the 1990s, when many were going abroad. But Russian sport is still not as big as the far larger USSR's sporting system. During the era of the USSR Samara was called Kuybyshev.
She has 1 sister. She loves shrimp and strawberries. and hockey. She enjoys Russian Comedies, Ricky Martin and Russian music.
Played in Russia for 3seasons, before WNBA, Forse-Majore 1995-96, CSKA 1996-98, averaged 15.9 points, during the 1997-98 season. played in Czech Republic (BK Gambrinus) during 2000 off-season where averaged 16.3 ppg. Spent another WNBA off-season b balling foe Gambrinus JME in Czech Republic.
This site was finished in December 2006
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1959
- Slavia Sofia Dynamo Moscou *63-40 34-*44
1960 - Daugava Riga Slavia Sofia
62-*28 *49-43
1961 - Daugava Riga Slovian Orbis Prague 76-*77 *72-37
1962
- Daugava Riga SK Leningrad *55-38 48-*44
1963 - Slavia Sofia Slovian Orbis
Prague 52-*57 *60-49
1964 - Daugava Riga Sparta Prague 63-*58 *40-43
1965
- Daugava Riga Slavia Sofia *49-31 52-*62
1966 - Daugava Riga Slovian Orbis
Prague *62-39 73-*56
1967 - Daugava Riga Sparta Prague *56-41 55-*52
1968
- Daugava Riga Sparta Prague *76-45 58-*47
1969 - Daugava Riga Chemie Halle
*62-48 82-*57
1970 - Daugava Riga Wisla Cracovie *61-45 59-*42
1971 -
Daugava Riga Clermont UC 72-*59 *62-56
1972 - Daugava Riga Sparta Prague *80-59
86-*59
1973 - Daugava Riga Clermont UC 64-*44 *83-60
1974 - Daugava Riga
Clermont UC *96-67 69-*53
1975 - Daugava Riga Sparta Prague *87-59 72-*56
1976 - Sparta Prague Clermont UC 55-*58 *77-57
1977 Barcelone Daugava
Riga Clermont UC 79-53
1978 Nice Sesto San Giovanni Sparta Prague 74-66
1979
La Corogne Étoile rouge Belgrade Budapest SE 97-62
1980 Wittenheim
Fiat Torino Mineur Pernik 75-66
1981 Saint-Nazaire Daugava Riga Étoile
rouge Belgrade 83-65
1982 Cologne Daugava Riga Mineur Pernik 78-56
1983
Venise AS Vicenza DJK Agon Düsseldorf 76-67
1984 Budapest Levski-Spartak
Sofia AS Vicenza 82-77
1985 Viterbo AS Vicenza Daugava Riga 63-55
1986
Milan AS Primigi Vicenza DJK Agon Düsseldorf 71-57
1987 Thessalonique
AS Primigi Vicenza Dynamo Novosibirsk 86-73
1988 Düsseldorf AS Primigi
Vicenza Dynamo Novosibirsk 70-64
1989 Florence Jedinstvo-Aida Tuzla AS Primigi
Vicenza 74-70
1990 Cesena Trogylos Enimont Priolo CSKA Moscou 86-71
1991
Barcelone Conad-Unicar Cesena Arvika Basket 84-66
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1992 Bari CB Dorna-Godella Valence Dynamo Kiev 66-56
1993 Llíria
CB Dorna-Godella Valence SFT Côme 66-58 (a.p.)
1994 Poznan SFT Côme
CB Dorna-Godella Valence 79-68
1995 Côme SFT Côme Godella Valence
64-57
1996 Sofia BTV Wuppertal SFT Côme 76-62
1997 Larissa CJM Bourges
BTV Wuppertal 71-52
1998 Bourges CJM Bourges Pool Getafe Madrid 76-64
1999
Brno SCP Ružomberok SFT Côme 63-48
2000 Ružomberok SCP Ružomberok
CJM Bourges 67-64 (a.2p.)
2001 Messine CJM Bourges US Valenciennes 73-71
2002
Liévin US Valenciennes Lotos VBW Clima Gdynia 78-72
2003 Bourges UMMC
Ekaterinburg US Valenciennes 82-80
2004 Pécs US Valenciennes Lotos
VBW Clima Gdynia 93-69
2005 Samara VBM-SGAU Samara Gambrinus Brno 69-66
2006
Brno Gambrinus Brno VBM-SGAU Samara 68-54
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