page_title: Emma Meesseman
section_title: Europe
hierarchical_section_title: Emma Meesseman / Professional career / Europe
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Emma Meesseman au Palacium, lors du match ESBVA vs Saint-Amand Hainaut, championnat LFB. English: Emma Meesseman in Le Palacium, match ESBVA vs Saint-Amand Hainaut, French Women’s Basketball League competition.
context_page_description: Emma Meesseman is a Belgian professional basketball player for UMMC Ekaterinburg and the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association. After playing basketball in Belgium, Meesseman was drafted by the Mystics with the 19th overall pick in the 2nd round of the 2013 WNBA Draft. She was the 2011 FIBA Europe Young Women's Player of the Year, and the 2019 WNBA Finals MVP.
context_section_description: 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.
  With UMMC Ekaterinburg, Meesseman won the Russian National League championship in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. Meesseman and UMMC Ekaterinburg won the 2015–16 EuroLeague, Europe's premium basketball competition for women, in April 2016. Having missed out on the final in 2017 and finished 3rd, Meesseman and UMMC Ekaterinburg won the 2017–18 EuroLeague. Meesseman, averaging 19 points in the Final Four tournament, was elected Final Four MVP. Meesseman and UMMC Ekaterinburg repeated in April 2019 by again winning the 2018–19 EuroLeague.
caption: Meesseman in 2013
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