Wisconsin women’s basketball adds international player to roster

Wisconsin women’s basketball adds international player to roster

The Wisconsin Badgers women’s basketball team added international player Alba Martin Mesa on Wednesday, rounding out their 2024-2025 roster. The 5-foot-6 guard is coming to Madison from Spain, where she played with SPAR Gran Canaria last year.

Martin Mesa averaged an impressive 14 points, six assists and three steals per game in 2023-2024. She will become the 15th and final member of Marisa Moseley’s roster.

The Badgers are coming off of a 2023-2024 season where they went 15-17 overall and 6-12 in conference play. The team advanced all the way to the Great 8 in the WNIT, that being their first postseason action in over a decade.

Wisconsin had five players enter the transfer portal and leave after last season, including guard Sania Copeland (Kansas). With that being said, Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year winner Serah Williams is back this season and the Badgers will look to build off of a promising postseason run from last year.