Marte Alexander Martinelli is an American born Italian

Italy

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 basketball player.

Life

Born in Inglewood

Inglewood, California

Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, southwest of downtown Los Angeles. It was incorporated on February 14, 1908. Its population stood at 109,673 as of the 2010 Census...

 she studied at University of Arizona and played with the Wildcats team. In 1998 she joined the Italian team Bees Pavia in the Italian league, from 1999 to 2001 he played for Bees Treviglio team. From 2002 to 2004 Alexander played for Germano Zara team, then she played for 1 year in Reggio Emilia. After one year in the Spanish league with Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria

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 she returned to Germano Zara Faenza, her current team.
In 2006 she acquired the Italian citizenship and played for the Italy women's national basketball team in the EuroBasket Women 2009

EuroBasket Women 2009

The 2009 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2009, was the 32nd regional championship held by FIBA Europe. The competition was held in Latvia from June 7 to June 20, 2009....

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