Emma Meesseman

Emma Meesseman (born May 13, 1993) is a Belgian professional basketball player for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was the 2011 FIBA Europe Young Women's Player of the Year.

Professional career

Washington Mystics

Meesseman was drafted 19th overall in the 2013 WNBA Draft by the Washington Mystics.

Meesseman had a career high 24 points to go along with 10 rebounds in a loss against the Tulsa Shock on June 19, 2015. She was selected to her first All-Star Game in 2015.

In the 2016 WNBA season, she led the league with 45.5 percent three-point shooting. In the WNBA she has averaged over years 52.4 % in free throws, 43.4 % in 3-pointers, and 15.2 points per game.

European career

Meesseman's club career began at the age of 16. She played domestically for the Blue Cats, based in her birth town of Ypres, and in the EuroCup for Lotto Young Cats, also in her native Belgium. In her second season with the Blue Cats she was named Belgium Championship MVP, and took the Young Cats to two EuroCups (2010–12).

In 2012 she joined ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq of the Ligue Féminine de Basketball. In her second year with the club she played in her third EuroCup, reaching the semi-finals before falling to WBC Dynamo Moscow.

Meesseman played for Spartak Moscow from 2014 to 2016, competing in two EuroCup tournaments. In February 2016, she was acquired by UMMC Ekaterinburg.

International

Meesseman made her debut for Belgium at the 2011 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship for Women. In the final, Meesseman led the team to victory 77-49 over France, herself scoring 25 points, and was named tournament MVP. On November 25, 2015, she scored 31 points, made seventeen rebounds and five assists for the women's senior team in a EuroBasket Women 2017 qualifier against Belarus.

Personal

Her mother, Sonja Tankrey, is a former basketball player. She was the Belgian Women's Basketball Player of the Year in 1983.

She speaks Dutch, French and English and is half-deaf.