There were 19 seconds left to conclude the match between Magec Tías "Against Gender Violence" and Gardenstore Baloncesto Sevilla Femenino when Julia Mejías committed a foul on Yaiza García. The team's captain is about to make the two free throws that could definitively sentence the match.
She didn't know it, but before starting the match she was 12 points away from reaching 3,000 in the national category. At the time of the foul, she had scored 11. She makes the first shot and scores, reaching the mythical figure. She executes the second and it goes in, starting the road to 4,000, leaving a tip.
The Magec Tías youth player continues to add since she debuted in national competition with Gran Canaria La Caja de Canarias in the 2007/2008 season. All the illusion that that 19-year-old girl had could not be reflected on the court and the following year she scored her first points playing for Aguere. In two seasons she achieved 539 points and made the leap to CB Uni CajaCanarias.
In the university team she even played a few quarter-finals, scoring a total of 181 points that season, 2010/2011, returning to Aguere at the end of the season, signing 379 points in her last season in the archipelago.
In the 2012-2013 season she signed for the Galician Durán Maquinaria Encino, where she spent two seasons playing both the regular league and the final phase of the league competition, achieving a total of 680 points in 48 matches, and from there to CB Al-Qazeres of Extremadura of the highest category of Spanish women's basketball, where she ended her peninsular journey with a season in the national category, in which she scored 244 more points.
Although she had no shortage of teams, she decided that it was time to return home and help her club, CD Magec Tías, and face an exciting challenge, that of ascending to Liga Femenina 2. The 16/17 season will be written in the history of the club, with the regional title achieved in Tenerife and with an image in everyone's retina, Yaiza García, retiring from the pavilion with her suitcase to be able to return to the island and go to work. She looked back as she was leaving with the trolley, with sadness for not being able to live the moment with her team, but sure that her teammates would achieve the title. And so it was.
