Maïa Hirsch to relaunch her career with Flammes Carolo?

Maïa Hirsch is expected to sign with Flammes Carolo for the 2025-2026 season. After an injury-plagued season at Villeneuve-d’Ascq, the French center joins a club aiming to play a leading role in La Boulangère Wonderligue. She will be joined in the Ardennes by Lucile Jérôme, a promising young point guard from Mondeville (LF2).

Maïa Hirsch, new challenge in Charleville-Mézières

At only 21 years old, Maia Hirsch (1.96 m, 21 years) is taking a new start. Rarely used at Villeneuve-d’Ascq this season (2.7 points, 2.4 rebounds in 9 games), the center trained at Pôle France has decided to join Flammes Carolo to revive her career. Drafted 12th overall by the Minnesota Lynx in 2023, she hasn’t yet had the opportunity to fulfill the hopes raised by her early performances at Charnay and Villeneuve.

By joining Charleville-Mézières, she becomes part of an ambitious project, in a club that’s solid both sportingly and structurally, still involved this season in La Boulangère Wonderligue playoffs (quarter-finalist) and in the French Cup final.

Lucile Jérôme, complementary profile for point guard position

Another recruit for 2025-2026: Lucile Jérôme (1.75 m, 21 years), one of the revelations of the season in LF2. With Mondeville, the Picardy native averaged 11.3 points, 4 rebounds, and 4.7 assists in 23 games before the playoff quarter-final decider, won this Saturday against Feytiat with 13 points and 8 assists from the tall point guard. Previously at Mondeville between 2018 and 2020, the Saint-Quentin native shined in 2022-2023 with Ifs in NF1 before taking a step up upon her return to USOM. In 2023, the former Nantes-Rezé player won the European title with the France U20 team.

Her signing aligns with Flammes’ strategy of betting on young players with high potential. An intelligent point guard, capable of controlling the tempo and creating for her teammates, she will provide a real alternative at the point guard position.