Lauren Jackson
Lauren Jackson
Lauren Elizabeth Jackson AOis an Australian former professional basketball player. The daughter of two national basketball team players, Jackson was awarded a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sportin 1997, when she was 16. In 1998, she led the AIS side that won the Women's National Basketball Leaguechampionship. Jackson joined the Canberra Capitals for the 1999 season when she turned 18, and played with the team off and on until 2006, winning four more WNBL championships. From 2010 to 2016,...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth11 May 1981
CityAlbury, Australia
With Jenny Whittle (197cm) and Tracey Beatty (202cm) we're by far the tallest and I think it's going to be very difficult for other teams to double and triple team me.
There's some great talent in that team. They stuck it out. They were pretty good, but I never show any pity.
Betty was unstoppable. That's what we need from her every game. Once she does that, we are unstoppable.
Betty was unbelievable, ... That's what we need from her every game. Once she does that, we're unstoppable.
Coming into Christmas I didn't even know if I was playing again. I know the girls had a lot of desire to win. I think people lost a bit of faith in us when we lost a few games, but we just knew we could win it.
I won't miss any games. I could feel it, but it's just one of those things where you can't really think about it, you've just got to keep going. I was fine. I just focused on the game.
I think I'm coming to a different stage of my career and hopefully this is going to be a very good beginning to something I am so desperate to achieve.
She wanted me to come home and get treatment, but I was pretty much just like, 'It's not going to happen,'
It's not great, ... Once you get out there and start playing, that's just the way it is. With my shins and everything else I've been through that is so painful, I've done this before, so it's not really that frightening.
For me, I was a bit unsure how things would go this year, ... So regular season-wise, we did a hell of a job. Maybe the playoffs were a little bit too much with a lot of new players. I don't know. It's pretty upsetting. I'm a bit shocked. We thought we could do better.
It looks like a cat attacked me. It was pretty physical. It's really tough to get into the flow of the game when you don't know what's going to be called.
It's a very good deal so I'm excited. I've had a great run in Canberra but it's time to move on. Obviously I've had a lot of injuries and issues with my legs and, for me, I felt it was best to go to a shorter season where I can have time after the WNBA in Australia to undergo rehabilitation.
It's all up in the air at the moment, ... I love the WNBA, and I love this team. It just depends on what Basketball Australia's restrictions are.
It's all up in the air at the moment, even the WNBA,