From GEiEG recovery exercises to Breanna Stewart’s WNBA MVP

Just over a year ago, in September 2019, Breanna Stewart still didn’t know when her season would begin. The American star was recovering from a serious Achilles tendon injury that had been made the previous April in the Final Four of the Euroleague playing with Dinamo Kursk, where he was companion of Marta Xargay and Sonja Petrovic (now Vasic). After not being able to play in the WNBA this summer, in September Breanna Stewart began doing recovery exercises on the court and, for a few days, did them in the GEiEG pavilion in St. Narcissus.

There, as many summers usually do, the now temporarily retired Marta Xargay was training to get in shape before joining Dinamo Kursk again. Xargay worked with the help of the technical secretary of Bàsquet Girona and renowned physical trainer, Txus Escosa, and with them Breanna Stewart, who, while the Girona player softened harder on the floor of Lluís Bachs of the GEiEG, did exercises to recover the his injury and some gentle shooting session. It had been just over four months since the Achilles tendon had ruptured in the Euroleague final. Then Stewart still saw far away from playing again; and, just over a year later, last morning the American winger won his second WNBA title with Seattle Storm being the best player in the finals (MVP), where he averaged 28 points in all three games of the final against Las Vegas ACE in the “bubble” of Florida again proving that she is the best basketball player today.

A story of self-improvement that was very present in the American media yesterday. One more in the life of Breanna Stewart, who, once established as a big star in her country, revealed her complicated childhood, in which she suffered sexual abuse.

In just over a year, not yet thirteen months, Stewart has gone from doing gentle, very gentle, recovery exercises in the GEiEG to being absolutely determined again on a track. As will surely continue this winter with Ekaterinburg, a possible rival of Spar Girona, or next summer at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where the player trained at the University of Connecticut (UCONN) will lead the Dream Team American in the company, among others, of a Chelsea Gray who arrives in Girona tomorrow to join the Uni. At 26, Breanna Stewart has twice won the WNBA Champion ring, both times being the MVP of the final, 2018 and 2020 (2019 was injured), Olympic gold at the Rio Games Janeiro and two gold medals at World Cups in addition to the four university titles in his four years at UCONN or what he has achieved in Europe in his appearances with Dinamo Kursk or Ekaterinburg.