[2] Cruz started playing basketball in clubs in her hometown Barcelona, making the debut in the Spanish top tier league with UB-Barça at 16, still a junior.

[3] She moved abroad in 2013 to play for Russian team Nadezhda Orenburg, where she remained for three seasons.

After a short spell at Turkish club Fenerbahçe in 2019, she returned to Spain for the 2020-21 season.

[citation needed] Cruz started playing with Spain's youth teams at 17, winning a total of three medals from 2004 to 2007.

She made her debut with the senior team in 2009 at 22 and played her last game in 2019, winning 158 caps 7 PPG, participating in the Rio 2016 Olympics,[6] three World Championships and five European Championships:[7] Her buzzer-beater shot against Turkey in the 2016 Rio Olympics quarter-finals is one of her key shots with the national team.