Emily
Bessoir

Emily Bessoir grew up in Munich and started her basketball career at TS Jahn München. In 2016 she became the first German player invited to the Basketball Without Borders Global Camp in Los Angeles, an annual event that brings together some of the world's biggest talents. In 2018 she won the German U18 championship with her club and was named Player of the Year of the Weibliche Nachwuchs-Basketball-Bundesliga.

For the 2020/21 season she moved to the University of California, Los Angeles, where she played for the UCLA Bruins while studying psychology and communication studies. After a torn ACL kept her out for a long stretch, she was able to play all 37 games in the 2022/23 season. She graduated in June 2024 and returned to Germany. In February 2025 the forward signed with Bundesliga club TK Hannover Luchse. During the 2025 summer break she joined Spanish top-flight club Lointek Gernika, and a year later she moved on to Hozono Global Jairis in the Liga Femenina.

With the German national team she won silver at the U16 European Championship in 2016 and became U18 European champion in 2018. In 2019 she competed with the U19 team at the World Championship. In spring 2023 the new head coach Lisa Thomaidis named her to the senior women's squad for the first time, and she made her debut on 26 May 2023. Germany finished sixth at the 2023 EuroBasket. In 2024 she was part of the roster for the Summer Olympics in Paris. At the Olympics and at EuroBasket 2025, the German side reached the quarterfinals. At the 2026 World Championship in Berlin the team reached the semifinals and finished fourth.