Alina Iagupova, a former Castor Braine player, has been named Euroleague MVP. Emma Meesseman shares the second place with Alyssa Thomas. The WNBA Finals MVP has also been named in the All-EuroLeague Women First Team. In 13 games in Euroleague, she is averaging 14.1 PTS, 4.6 RBDS and 3.2 ASTS in only 22 minutes with…
1) Emma Meesseman (UMMC – RUS D1): 64.8 rtpg2) Kyara Linskens (Enisey – RUS D1): 56.6 rtpg3) Hind Ben Abdelkader (Hatay – TUR D1): 43.6 rtpg4) Julie Allemand (Lyon – FRA D1): 40.9 rtpg5) Antonia Delaere (Nantes – FRA D1): 36.4 rtpg6) Kim Mestdagh (Flammes – FRA D1): 35.4 rtpg Emmanuella Mayombo (Keltern – GER…
After defeating Sweden with the 53-61 final score our Belgian Cats have qualified for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo and thus make history. It’s becoming a habit for this golden generation of Belgian Cats. After an exciting Qualifying Tournament in front of their home-crowd in Ostend, the Cats have managed to qualify for the Olympics for…
Simply amazing! No other words can describe this battle between Japan and our Belgian Cats. In a game that offered pretty much everything a basketball game has to offer our Belgian Cats showed again why they truly belong at the highest stage as they got the 92-84 win. If you didn’t thoroughly enjoy this game then…
Rough.One word which sums up this opening game of our Belgian Cats against Canada. The very physical approach of Canada halted the usual fluid offense of our Cats and after the opening half the low score of 30-23 stood on the scoreboard in advantage of Canada. A highly misleading score as our Cats really had been off…
What else can we say except: Belgian Sportswoman Of The Year! It has been an absolutely amazing season for Emma Meesseman who managed to pick up no less than 5 trophies in one year alone. After winning the Russian Cup, the Russian Championship and also the Women’s Euroleague with her team Ekaterinburg, Meesseman extended her season with…
They’ve done it! Emma Meesseman and Kim Mestdagh have become the second and third Belgian players to capture the coveted WNBA Championship trophy (after Wauters did it before them) as last night they helped the Washington Mystics to the 89-78 victory in GAME 5 of a thrilling series. Meesseman was again a major factor in the…
Throughout the season we will also keep our eyes on women’s basketball and we’ll regularly report on the performances of all the Belgian Players Abroad. For the women abroad we have the following players: * Emma Meesseman (Washington – USA WNBA / UMMC Ekaterinburg – Russia D1)* Kim Mestdagh (Washington – USA WNBA / Flammes – France…
Cheered on by a sold-out gym in Kortrijk our Belgian Cats defeated the Czech Republic to qualify for EuroBasket 2019. Despite a slow and nervous start our Cats were able to get back in the game in the 2nd quarter, led by star-player Emma Meesseman who scored and dished out assists like nobody’s business and at the half our…
In their EuroBasket 2019 qualification game against Germany this evening our Belgian Cats came away with the 58-77 victory. The Cats (without injured Julie Allemand) were led by the duo Kim Mestdagh (17 pts, 9 rebs & 4 asts) & Emma Meesseman (28 pts, 2 rebs, 3 asts & 3 stls), while Hanne Mestdagh chipped in with 11 pts…
