Marine Johannes is a French basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for Lyon Asvel Feminin in the French League. She won the silver medal at the European Championship in 2017, 2019, and 2021 and the Tokyo 2020 Olympics bronze medal.
Marine Johannes was born on January 21, 1995, in Lisieux, France. She started basketball when she was 8 at the club of Pont-l’Eveque. She was noticed by Samuel Vallee, who made her join at 12 the basketball club USO Mondeville. With that team, she won the U17 French League two times, in 2011 and 2012, and the U17 French Cup in 2012. Her team also won the Youth French League in 2013.
In 2016, she joined Bourges, having her first experience in EuroLeague. She had good individual and team achievements with Bourges, winning the French Cup in 2017, 2018, and 2019 and the French League in 2018. Marine Johannes was two times in the All-LFB First Team, during the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 seasons. On a European level, Bourges lost in the quarter-finals of the EuroLeague each of her three years with the team.
In 2019, Marine Johannes signed a 3 years contract with the winner of the French League Lyon ASVEL.
Marine Johannes went undrafted in the 2017 WNBA draft. She was signed in 2019 by the New York Liberty. In February 2020, it was announced that she signed a multi-year deal with New York Liberty. However, she was suspended for the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic. She didn’t play in the 2021 season either because of overseas commitment, having both the EuroBasket and the Olympic Games to play that summer. On June 8th, the New York Liberty announced that she would join the team for the 2022 season. She improved her career high in points by scoring 23 points in a loss against the Seattle Storm on June 20, 2022.
Marine Johannes played her first game with the senior national team of France in November 2015 against the Netherlands where she scored 15 points. She was part of the team selected for the Rio 2016 Olympics and, at 21 years old, the youngest player on the roster. France lost to Serbia in the bronze medal game.
She was part of the French national team in the 2017, 2019, and 2021 Eurobasket rosters for France all end up with a silver medal for France. She took part in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics where France won the bronze medal.