The route Maite Lara Garcia took into university basketball
Forward
Spanish
Athlavia had no involvement with Maite Lara Garcia. She has not used this product, is not connected to it and has not endorsed it. Everything on this page about her is drawn from the published sources listed at the foot, and cited so you can read the originals. The sentences about what an association’s rules permit are ours; they are statements about a rulebook, they are marked as such where they appear, and they are not about her.
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3 pages across 2 sites.
One of 110 routes documented, covering 108 women. See all of them.
The route
Three stops: Two-year college, then NCAA Division I — from a two-year college to a four-year one, then NCAA Division I — same level. 7 of the 108 women documented here followed the same sequence of levels.
Left to right is the order the sources place her stops in. It is not a time axis: 54 of the 181 stops recorded across this site carry a bare pair of dates and the rest are prose, so the years are printed as written, in the list below.
The rows are the NCAA’s own three divisions, plus two dashed rows for everything outside them. NAIA and U SPORTS are separate associations rather than a lower NCAA tier, and nothing in these records ranks them against it; the two-year colleges sit at the foot because a junior college is an institution players transfer on from, which the records do say. The shaded bar behind each row is how many of the 110 routes documented here include a stop at that level.
The stops, as the sources record them
Printed as written. The drawing above compresses these; this list does not, because every caveat in the research lives inside these sentences.
- 1
McCook Community College (McCook, Nebraska)
Two-year collegeCommunity college / junior college
Conference not established by the sources we read.
2021-2022
From a two-year college to a four-year one
2University of Detroit Mercy
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Horizon League
2022-2023
Same level
3Wagner College (Staten Island, New York)
NCAA DINCAA Division I
Northeast Conference
2023-2024
What these levels are, and what money can exist at them
These are facts about rulebooks. They apply to everyone at that level, and none of them is a statement about her.
Two-year college
McCook Community College (McCook, Nebraska)
Her sources do not name the association McCook Community College (McCook, Nebraska) played in, so we cannot say which scholarship rules applied to it.
NCAA Division I
This association permits athletic scholarships. Whether any particular player received one, and how much of one, is not published.
Where she was before she left
Sant Joan Despi, Barcelona; school listed as IES Jaume Salvador i Pedrol. Her club record as published by Wagner: three seasons at Basket Almeda, two seasons at FC Barcelona Basket and two seasons at CBJ Hospitalet.
What happened, in the sources’ account
Lara came out of a strong Catalan club background - Barca, Almeda, Hospitalet - and still began in the United States at a community college in Nebraska, averaging 10.8 points and 5.6 rebounds there in 2021-22. She appears on the Detroit Mercy roster as a junior in 2022-23, coming off the bench in 26 games, then transferred to Wagner as a fifth-year, where she made 26 appearances with nine starts.
What is known about money
Athletic scholarships are permitted at NCAA Division I, where she played. That is a fact about the rulebook, not about her.
Her sources do not name the association McCook Community College (McCook, Nebraska) played in, so we cannot say which scholarship rules applied to it.
No source we fetched states what she received, if anything.
6 of the 110 routes documented here have a source stating any financial term at all. The other 104 do not, and that is normal rather than a gap in the research: a university announces a signing as a roster addition, and what a player was offered stays between her and the programme. Read silence as silence.
No source states anything about money.
Copied without editing. Like the checking notes further down, some of these sentences are instructions to the person writing this page rather than statements about her.
No fetched source mentions a scholarship, an amount, a percentage or any financial term.
What she did afterwards is not published
Nothing is published in the sources fetched about what she did after the 2023-24 season at Wagner.
No retrieval date is stored against these sources, so treat anything time-sensitive — a current club, a current roster — as needing a fresh check.
Athlavia’s note on this route
Everything above is drawn from the sources. This is our editorial judgement about why the route is worth showing, and it is the only opinion on this page.
A serious cantera background at a big club does not automatically open a Division I door from Spain. The junior college year is what preceded it. Her three stops in three years also show that the American route is far less settled than the single-club Spanish model families are used to - each season can mean a new school, a new city and new coaches.
This set has not been through the balancing pass, so it may over-represent Division I.
What we could not confirm
These are the checking pass’s own notes, copied without editing. They address the person writing this page, which is why some are phrased as instructions. They are published because a list of what we removed is worth more than an assurance that we checked.
What is still unknown
- Detroit Mercy's Horizon League and Wagner's Northeast Conference memberships are now confirmed from the fetched roster pages themselves, not from general knowledge.
- McCook is described as a community college in the fetched bios; I did not confirm its NJCAA division from an NJCAA page. Call it a community college.
- A Spanish listing gave her pre-college club as 'Concordia', which does not match the clubs named in the Wagner bio. Treat the Wagner bio as the authority and do not print the other version.
- Nothing after 2023-24 is verified.
- 1 of her 3 stops carries no conference we could establish.
- The association her two-year college played in is not named in any source we read.
Researcher’s own rating: 90 out of 100. This is the checking agent’s self-assessment, not a measurement. Across the 110 records it runs from 62 to 93, so the source count above it tells you more.
Sources
3 pages fetched and re-checked. Found by one researcher and re-checked by a second whose instruction was to fetch every cited URL and delete whatever the page did not support.
| # | Title | Publisher | Site | Loaded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maite Lara Garcia - Women's Basketball roster bio | Wagner College Athletics | wagnerathletics.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 2 | 2023-24 Women's Basketball Roster | Wagner College Athletics | wagnerathletics.com | Loaded and re-checked |
| 3 | 2022-23 Women's Basketball Roster | University of Detroit Mercy Athletics | detroittitans.com | Loaded and re-checked |
These 3 pages come from 2 sites, so some of them share one. The strip at the top of this page counts sites, not links.
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Routes through the same sequence of levels (7 of the 108 women documented here)
- Alexandra "Alex" Bolozova — Slovakia · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Catarina Ferreira — Brazil · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 1 site
- Fatou Pouye — Senegal · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Johanna Teder — Estonia · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Juliana Haddad — Finland · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 2 sites
- Raiane Dias Dos Santos — Brazil · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DI · 1 site
Other routes from Spain
The first 6 of 12, in alphabetical order. See all 13 documented routes from Spain.
- Ana Moleon Hidalgo — Spain · NCAA DI → NAIA · 3 sites
- Blanca Millan — Spain · NCAA DI · 3 sites
- Carlota Gomez-Alonso — Spain · Two-year college → NCAA DI → NCAA DII · 2 sites
- Elena Delicado — Spain · NCAA DI → NCAA DIII · 3 sites
- Elisa Aguilar — Spain · NCAA DI · 1 site
- Ines Gimenez Monserrat — Spain · NCAA DII → NCAA DI · 2 sites
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This set has not been through the balancing pass, so it may over-represent Division I.
110 routes, 44 countries, 32 through a junior or community college, 36 never played NCAA Division I — so you can see whether this record is typical of the set or unusual within it.