Marina Mabrey
Mabrey with the Chicago Sky in 2024
No. 3 – Toronto Tempo
Position Shooting guard
League WNBA
Personal information
Born (1996-09-14) September 14, 1996 (age 29)
Belmar, New Jersey, U.S.
Listed height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Listed weight 186 lb (84 kg)
Career information
High school Manasquan
(Manasquan, New Jersey)
College Notre Dame (2015–2019)
WNBA draft 2019: 2nd round, 19th overall pick
Drafted by Los Angeles Sparks
Playing career 2019–present
Career history
2019–2020 Los Angeles Sparks
2019–2020 TTT Riga
2020–2022 Dallas Wings
2020–2021 Bnot Hertzeliya
2021–2022 Perth Lynx
2022–2023 Beretta Famila Schio
2023–2024 Chicago Sky
2023–2024 Çukurova Basketbol
2024–2025 Connecticut Sun
2025 Phantom
2026–present Lunar Owls
2026–present Toronto Tempo
Career highlights
  • LBF champion (2023)
  • Italian Cup winner (2023)
  • WBBL champion (2020)
  • All-EuroLeague First Team (2024)
  • All-EuroLeague Second Team (2023)
  • All-WNBL Second Team (2022)
  • NCAA champion (2018)
  • Second-team All-ACC (2018)
  • ACC All-Freshman Team (2016)
  • McDonald's All-American Game Co-MVP (2015)
Stats at WNBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Medals
Women's basketball
Representing  United States
FIBA Under-18 Americas Championship
Gold medal – first place 2014 United States Team

Marina Alise Mabrey (born September 14, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Toronto Tempo of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Lunar Owls of Unrivaled. Nicknamed "Money Mabrey" for her three-point shooting and clutch scoring ability, she is the first player in WNBA history to earn an annual salary over $1 million.

Mabrey played college basketball at Notre Dame, where she won a national championship in 2018 and left as the program's all-time leader in three-pointers. She was selected 19th overall by the Los Angeles Sparks in the 2019 WNBA draft. Mabrey later played for the Dallas Wings, Chicago Sky, and Connecticut Sun. In 2026, she joined the Toronto Tempo as the face of the expansion franchise and became the first million-dollar player in WNBA history. In her first season with the Tempo, Mabrey tied league single-game records in points (53) and three-pointers (9).

In addition to the WNBA, Mabrey has played professionally in Latvia, Israel, Australia, Italy, and Turkey. She led Beretta Famila Schio to the Lega Basket Femminile championship in 2023. Her accolades overseas include one All-WNBL Team and two All-EuroLeague selections. In Unrivaled, Mabrey has competed for Phantom and Lunar Owls, and holds the league's single-game scoring record with 47 points.

Early life

Mabrey was raised in Belmar, New Jersey to Patti and Roy Mabrey.[1] She has two brothers, Ryan and Roy, and two sisters Michaela and Dara. It was Roy's and Michaela's love of basketball that first involved Marina in the game. Her mother coached basketball in their area and Marina, Roy and Michaela would go along with their mother and join in the practices. Fierce basketball competition became a part of family life in the Mabrey household with Marina frequently competing with her older brother and sister in their driveway and local park.[2][3][4]

Mabrey attended Manasquan High School in Manasquan, New Jersey, where she was part of two teams that won the state Tournament of Champions[5] and shared most valuable player honors in the McDonald's All-American Game in 2015.[4]

Despite her sister Michaela's success as part of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team,[3] Marina doubted whether or not to choose that college when she was considering many offers for a basketball scholarship after high school. She chose to join up with coach Muffet McGraw's squad at Notre Dame in 2015.[4]

College career

Mabrey joined sister Michaela in the 2015–16 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team, following a season in which the team were runners-up in the national championship but required some rebuilding. She quickly established herself and won "rookie of the week" in November 2015 after recording a triple-double at Valparaiso. Her 35 appearances as a rookie, 85 three-pointers (which ranks as the second most for a single season in program history) and an impressive 10.7 points per game gained her honors in the ACC All-Freshman Team (Blue Ribbon Panel & Coaches) and ACC All-Academic Team.[6]

The 2016–17 Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball team reached the Elite Eight but fell for the second year running to Stanford Cardinal women's basketball. Mabrey was chosen along with Arike Ogunbowale and Lindsay Allen for the regional all-tournament team.[6]

The Notre Dame team for the following two years saw records fall, two national championship games and one championship victory. Mabrey was a key component of a team that survived a rash of injuries that won the 2018 national championship and commented later that the injuries had given the now smaller team an added mental toughness that "there is no-one else to sub in" and that they had to battle through.[7] The fighting mentality led to comebacks throughout the season with Mabrey moving to a more direct point guard role and taking more leadership with the largest fightback in Notre Dame history coming back against Tennessee from 23 points behind. The team executed the largest comeback in a championship game in NCAA women's basketball history, overcoming a 15-point deficit to achieve a 61–58 victory over fellow No. 1 seed Mississippi State.[8]

She graduated in 2019 as Notre Dame's all-time leader in made three-pointers with 274; 1,896 career points ranks eighth all-time and a career 81.7 percent from the line – ranking sixth for Notre Dame.[6]

Professional career

WNBA

Los Angeles Sparks (2019)

Mabrey with the LA Sparks in 2019.

Mabrey was drafted 19th overall in the 2019 WNBA draft by the Los Angeles Sparks.[9][10] The Sparks, under new head coach Derek Fisher, reached the play-off semi-finals with a regular season record of 22–12.[11] Mabrey saw limited minutes during the playoffs.[12] She appeared in 31 games with the Sparks during her rookie season and averaged 4.0 points, 1.2 rebounds and 1.0 assists while shooting 34.4% from the field.[13]

Dallas Wings (2020–2022)

Mabrey with the Dallas Wings in 2021.

Prior to the 2020 WNBA season, Mabrey was traded by the Sparks to the Dallas Wings for a 2021 second round draft choice.[13] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 WNBA season was reduced to a 22-game regular season at IMG Academy, without fans present.[14] In 19 games for the Wings, Mabrey averaged 10.0 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 1.3 steals per game.[15]

Mabrey returned to the Dallas Wings for the 2021 WNBA season.[15]

Chicago Sky (2023–2024)

On February 11, 2023, Mabrey was traded to the Chicago Sky in a four-team trade also involving the New York Liberty, Phoenix Mercury, Dallas Wings.[16]

Connecticut Sun (2024–2025)

On July 17, 2024, Mabrey was traded to the Connecticut Sun (along with a 2025 2nd round draft pick) from the Chicago Sky, in exchange for guards Rachel Banham and Moriah Jefferson, a 2025 1st round pick, and the rights to swap 2026 first round picks.[17]

Toronto Tempo (2026–present)

On April 3, 2026, Mabrey was drafted sixth overall by the Toronto Tempo in the 2026 WNBA expansion draft.[18]

On June 25, 2026, she dropped 53 points versus the Los Angeles Sparks, shooting 17/28 from the field and 9/18 from three, tying the records for most points and most three-point field goals in a WNBA game.[19]

Overseas

For the 2019–20 season, Mabrey moved to Latvia to play for TTT Riga.[20] In her first game[21] she scored 24 points and led her team with eight rebounds to win 89–81 over defending champions UMMC Ekaterinburg which contained WNBA players Brittney Griner, Courtney Vandersloot and Emma Meesseman. Riga won only two of the following nine matches that were played.[22] Mabrey settled in well in a young team[23] and at the suspension of play she was eighth in the league in points per game (15.8).[24] She left Latvia in mid-March after European play was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[25][26]

For the 2020–21 season, Mabrey moved to Israel to play for Bnot Hertzeliya. In 22 games, she averaged 23.2 points, 8.0 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 2.4 steals per game.[15]

Mabrey and Jackie Young with the Perth Lynx in December 2021

Mabrey signed with the Perth Lynx in Australia for the 2021–22 WNBL season.[27] In her debut for the Lynx on January 2, 2022, she scored a game-high 30 points with seven 3-pointers in an 88–86 loss to the Adelaide Lightning.[28] On January 23, she scored 34 points in an 86–81 win over the Sydney Uni Flames.[29] Following this game, she was unavailable for over a month due to a foot injury[30][31] but returned to contribute to the Lynx ending the season as runners-up in the WBNL to Melbourne Boomers after losing the final series by two matches to one.[32]

In 2023, she won her first national title since the 2018 NCAA tournament when she and team Famila Schio won the Coppa Italia beating Venezia 73–62 with Mabrey scoring eleven points in the final.[33] Having qualified for the Scudetto playoffs, Mabrey's twenty four points and dominant performance in the third quarter of the quarter final pulled her team from a weak first half against Campobasso to a twenty four point victory. She followed this up two weeks later with seventeen point performance and vital bucket and interception in the last seconds to win a bronze medal with PF Schio for third place in the 2022–23 EuroLeague Women finals in Prague. This was the first medal performance for an Italian team in twenty years and PF Schio's first ever appearance in the finals.[34] Within two weeks she added the gold medal for the Italian championship turning in a thirty seven point performance in the final game including a crucial three pointer in the last seconds as PF Schio beat Virtus Bologna 84–79 in the decisive second match of the play-offs.[35]

Unrivaled

On August 17, 2024, it was announced that Mabrey would appear and play in the inaugural season of Unrivaled, a new women's 3-on-3 basketball league founded by Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart.[36] She was selected for Phantom. In pre-season training, Mabrey sustained a right calf injury requiring a minimum of 2-weeks rest and her missing the start of the 2025 Unrivaled season.[37] Mabrey ended up playing only 3 games during Unrivaled.[38]

On November 5, 2025, it was announced that Mabrey had been drafted by Lunar Owls BC for the 2026 Unrivaled season.[39]

On January 30, 2026 in the game against Rose, Mabrey scored 47 points, breaking the Unrivaled record for most points in a game. She broke the record for most three-point shots made in a game, scoring 10 threes. Her 27 points in the first quarter are the most in any quarter in Unrivaled. Quarters are 7 minutes long.[40]

Career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career best ° League leader
* Denotes season(s) in which Mabrey won an NCAA Championship

WNBA

Regular season

Stats current through end of 2025 season

WNBA regular season statistics[41]
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2019 Los Angeles 31 0 11.5 .344 .273 .875 1.2 1.0 0.6 0.2 0.8 4.0
2020 Dallas 19 12 21.3 .430 .418 .667 3.1 2.3 1.3 0.1 1.6 10.0
2021 Dallas 32 8 24.2 .405 .342 .882 3.9 2.9 1.0 0.3 2.1 13.3
2022 Dallas 34 32 28.0 .420 .351 .681 3.6 3.7 0.8 0.4 2.4 13.6
2023 Chicago 39 39 30.0 .411 .390 .836 3.7 3.6 0.7 0.5 2.2 15.0
2024 Chicago 24 24 33.2 .381 .350 .723 4.9 4.5 1.3 0.3 2.8 14.0
Connecticut 16 3 27.4 .467 .424 .682 3.5 3.3 1.0 0.6 1.7 14.9
2025 Connecticut 35 34 31.5 .367 .270 .870 4.2 4.0 0.7 0.3 2.8 14.4
Career 7 years, 4 teams 229 152 26.2 .402 .347 .796 3.5 3.2 0.9 0.3 2.1 12.5

Playoffs

WNBA playoff statistics
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2019 Los Angeles 3 0 5.3 .333 .500 — 1.0 0.7 0.0 0.0 0.3 1.7
2021 Dallas 1 0 17.0 .125 .250 — 3.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.0
2022 Dallas 3 3 32.7 .429 .455 1.000 4.0 1.7 0.7 0.7 4.7° 15.0
2023 Chicago 2 2 32.5 .348 .222 1.000 3.5 1.5 0.0 1.5 3.0 9.5
2024 Connecticut 7 4 33.0 .368 .339 .923 3.0 2.6 0.1 0.9 1.9 15.9
Career 5 years, 4 teams 16 9 26.7 .368 .341 .944 2.9 1.9 0.2 0.7 2.1 11.4

EuroLeague

Year[42] Team GP MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2019–20 TTT Riga 9 27.2 .317 .274 .800 4.2 3.9 1.1 0.1 5.0 15.8
2022–23 PF Schio 14 28.8 .403 .362 .633 4.1 3.6 1.2 0.1 2.4 14.7

D1 (Israel)

Year[43] Team GP MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2020–21 Bnot Hertzeliya 22 .332 .558 .344 .840 8.0 6.9 2.4 0.2 4.6 23.2

WNBL (Australia)

Year[44] Team GP FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2022 Perth Lynx 16 .385 .350 .803 4.8 2.9 1.3 0.1 2.6 19.1

Italy Seria A

Year[45] Team GP MIN PTS 2PTS 3PTS FT RO RD RT AS PF BS STL TO
2022–23 PF Schio 26 684 486 99-204 76-103 60-74 23 90 113 80 53 6 26 59

College

NCAA statistics[46]
Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2015–16 Notre Dame 35 373 51.4% 45.3% 81.7% 2.8 2.0 1.5 0.3 10.7
2016–17 Notre Dame 37 540 47.1% 38.3% 84.3% 3.0 2.5 1.5 0.5 14.6
2017–18* Notre Dame 38 549 45.8% 39.0% 85.7% 4.4 4.4 2.1 0.3 14.4
2018–19 Notre Dame 35 434 46.6% 40.8% 69.4% 2.7 4.9 1.3 0.3 12.4
Career 145 1896 47.4% 40.0% 81.7% 3.2 3.4 1.6 0.4 13.1

Personal life

In 2019, Mabrey sold shirts bearing the phrase "This Is My Kitchen", a reference to sexism in sports and her 2018 NCAA Women's Basketball Championship win.[47]

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