Lauren Jackson

Lauren Elizabeth Jackson AO is an Australian former professional basketball player. The daughter of two national basketball team players, Jackson was awarded a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in 1997, when she was 16. In 1998, she led the AIS side that won the Womens National Basketball League championship. 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, Jackson played with the Canberra Capitals, which she did during the Womens National Basketball Association offseason during the time she continued WNBA play.

Lauren Elizabeth Jackson, whose nicknames include Loz, Jacko and LJ, was born in Albury, New South Wales, onMay 1981, the oldest of two children of Gary Jackson and his wife Maree Bennie. Both her parents played for Australias national basketball teams. Jackson inherited her height from her father, Gary, who played for the Boomers in 1975, while her mother, Maree, played for the Opals from 1974 to 1982. She played in two World Championships, and for the womens basketball team at Louisiana State in the late 1980s, wearing the number 15, the number Jackson wears in her mothers honour. She was one of the first Australians to play in the American collegiate system, where she was known for her aggressive style of play and was nicknamed the assassin. Her parents continued to play basketball locally on the social level when Lauren and her brother were young, and her family had a basketball court in their backyard when Jackson was growing up. Her grandfather played for the Western Suburbs

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