Monique Cardenas is a former American professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 player in the Women's National Basketball Association

Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. It currently is composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996 as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association...

 (WNBA).

High school

Cardenas attended Keystone Heights Junior/Senior High School

Keystone Heights Junior/Senior High School

Keystone Heights Junior/Senior High School is a public high school serving students in the seventh through twelfth grades in Keystone Heights, Clay County, Florida, USA and is part of the Clay County School District.-Overview:...

 in Keystone Heights, Florida

Keystone Heights, Florida

Keystone Heights is a town located in both Bradford County and Clay County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,349 at the 2000 census, all of it in the Clay County section, although over 40 percent of the city's area lies in Bradford County. As of 2004, the population recorded by the U.S...

.

College and Professional WNBA Career (1998-2002)

From 1998-2002, at the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

, Cardenas excelled for the Florida Gators

Florida Gators

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. She graduated in June 2002 and was selected 53rd overall in the fourth round of the 2002 WNBA Draft

2002 WNBA Draft

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 by the Portland Fire. At season's end, the Portland Fire folded and Cardenas subsequently retired after one season.

Teams played on during her college and professional career

• Florida Gators
  Florida Gators
  The Florida Gators are the intercollegiate sports teams that represent the University of Florida located in Gainesville, Florida. The "Lady Gators" is an alternative nickname sometimes used by the Gators women's teams...
  
   women's basketball team (1998-2002)
• Portland Fire
  Portland Fire
  The Portland Fire joined the Women's National Basketball Association in 2000 as the counterpart to the NBA team the Portland Trail Blazers. They played their games at Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon. The team folded after the 2002 season, after just three seasons in the league...
  
  (2002)