Lina
Sontag

Lina Sontag was born in Berlin on 24 November 2003 and grew up in Kleinmachnow in Brandenburg. She attended the Schadow-Gymnasium in Berlin and came through the youth ranks of TuS Lichterfelde, winning three German youth championships with the club. In 2019-20 she was named the best player of the girls' junior league, the WNBL. While still a teenager she also played for Lichterfelde's senior team in the third-tier Regionalliga.

In the summer of 2021 the 191 cm forward moved to USC Freiburg together with her Lichterfelde teammate Martha Pietsch. She won the German championship in May 2022 and was voted the league's Rookie of the Year. She then crossed the Atlantic to play for the UCLA Bruins and to begin her studies. In both of her seasons there, 2022-23 and 2023-24, UCLA reached the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA tournament. Sontag returned to Freiburg in 2024, played for the Panthers in Osnabrück in 2025-26 and joined Cadí La Seu in Spain's Liga Femenina in June 2026.

For Germany she played at the U16 European Championships in 2018 and 2019 and the U20 European Championship in 2022. Her senior debut came in November 2020, shortly before her 17th birthday. Germany finished sixth at EuroBasket 2023, and at the 2024 Olympics in Paris the team reached the quarterfinals before losing 71-84 to the hosts. At the 2026 World Cup in Berlin, Germany placed fourth.