![]() season played in a bubble in Bradenton, Fla. Stewart and Xargay decided they wanted a child in the summer and fall of 2020, as they huddled together through a W.N.B.A. The couple married on July 6 in a small ceremony atop their downtown Seattle condominium, details Stewart had not made public until now. ![]() But in May, Stewart posted to social media a picture of their engagement. But starting last summer, after listening to her peers and getting involved in protests in the Seattle area, she began speaking loudly for Black justice.įor a long time she was quiet, too, about her relationship with Xargay, a now-retired Spanish basketball player with whom she had fallen in love while the two played on a Russian Euroleague team in 2019. As an emerging star in a predominantly Black sport, Stewart had not spoken out much on matters of race. In 2017, her second year as a pro, she revealed in an essay that she is a survivor of sexual abuse endured in her childhood, using the public disclosure to advocate on behalf of other survivors. Stewart pulled this off in what for her is typical fashion - carefully and tactically. “It will not be easy, but why can’t I be the best player, a mom and have a child in the way we have done?” “I’ve always known I wanted to have a family, always wanted to be a younger mom,” Stewart said. season in 2019 because of an Achilles’ rupture, using a surrogate afforded her the chance to keep her career going without another interruption. each season.īut Stewart, 26, and in her prime, is helping chart a new course. ![]() In recent years, a small number of mothers, about 10 or so, have played in the W.N.B.A. Though still rare, having children and returning to competition is not new for the best female athletes. “It’s about making decisions that fit me, fit my family and where we want to go, where we want to be, and not waiting.” “This is about controlling my own destiny,” Stewart told me. It shows how female sports stars are pushing past tradition and finding a level of power that extends to every aspect of their lives. The no-fanfare birth of Ruby Mae Stewart Xargay is a story of love and family in the modern age - without limits. Two days after winning a gold medal and most valuable player honors at the Tokyo Games women’s basketball tournament, Stewart experienced a moment that she said could compare with nothing else: the birth of her first child. Subscribe to the BRAND Basket Newsletter and receive in your email, from Monday to Sunday and first thing in the morning, the exclusive news, interviews, reports, graphics and videos that will mark the day in the NBA, Endesa League, Euroleague and the rest of the basket world.Stewart and Xargay’s gestational surrogate carried an embryo that had been created with one of Stewart’s eggs. We wish her good luck both in sports and personally.” Garbajosa pointed out. “Marta Xargay will always be one of the players who will go down in history not only because of the successes of this National Team but also for having made us enjoy and get excited about her game on many occasions. A year ago he announced that he was temporarily halting his professional career, and now he is doing so permanently.Ībsolute international on 147 occasions, with 1,356 points and 7 medals, including three golds in the 2013, 20 EuroBasket, the president of the Spanish Basketball Federation, Jorge Garbajosa, sent him a message of gratitude through a statement. Xargay has played during his career in Spanish clubs such as Uni Girona and Perfumeras Avenida de Salamanca, the Phoenix Mercury of the American WNBA, the Czech USK Prague or the Russian Dynamo Kursk. In an extensive message, the 30-year-old player from Girona pointed out that basketball has “given her a lot” and “filled her with life”, but also that “all that glitters is not gold.” “From the outside everything is idealized from the inside the level of sacrifice and mental and physical demand is incredible,” he added. ![]() “Today I want to transfer you, in a very close and personal way, but above all very positive and gratifying, my decision to put an end to my career as a professional basketball player,” said Xargay through her official profile on the social network Twitter Lhe Spanish international escort Marta Xargay, Olympic runner-up in Ro 2016 among the seven medals of her career, announced this Thursday her retirement from professional basketball.
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