Lauren Jackson
Lauren Jackson was born in Albury, New South Wales, Australia on May 11th, 1981 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 42, Lauren Jackson biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Lauren Elizabeth Jackson (born May 11, 1981) is an Australian former professional basketball player.
Jackson, the niece of two national basketball team players, was given a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), in 1997.
She was a member of the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) in 1998.
Jackson debuted at the age of 18 and continued with the Canberra Capitals in the 2000 season, winning four more WNBL championships.
Jackson played with the Canberra Capitals from 2010 to 2016, which she did during the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) offseason when she started WNBA (WNBA) offseason. Jackson was with the Australian Women's National Basketball Team when she was 14 years old, and she was first called up to the Australian Women's National Basketball Team (nicknamed The Opals) when she was 16 years old.
She was a member of the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics and skipped captain of the 2008 Summer Olympics, winning three silver medals.
She competed for bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics and was also a member of the Australian team that claimed bronze.
Jackson was a member of the Australian Senior Women's Team, who received a silver medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, co-captain of the squad that captured a gold medal and captain of the team that claimed a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championships for Women in Brazil. Jackson first drafted him in 2001 for the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft, and the Seattle Storm selected Jackson as a franchise star.
In 2004, and 2010, she won two WNBA titles with the Storm, with the former winning Jackson the WNBA Most Valuable Player Award.
Jackson is ranked among the best WNBA players in played games, minutes played, field goals, three-point shots, and turnover percentage. Jackson starred in European basketball with WBC Spartak Moscow in Russia and Ros Casares Valencia in Spain.
She competed in the Women's Korean Basketball League, where she was named the league's Most Valuable Player and set a record of 56 points, as well as in the Women's Chinese Basketball Association.
On March 31, 2016, Jackson announced her retirement from basketball citing a persistent knee injury as the reason for her decision.
Jackson is also planning on obtaining her undergraduate degree at Macquarie University, concentrating in gender studies, in addition to her basketball career.
Personal life
Lauren Elizabeth Jackson, whose nicknames include "Loz," "Jacko" and "LJ"), was born in Albury, New South Wales, on Monday, May 11th, 1981, the oldest of two children of Gary Jackson and his wife Maree Bennie. Both her parents competed for Australia's national basketball teams, while Jackson inherited her height from both parents. Gary, her father, played for the Boomers in 1975, while Maree, her 6ft 2in mother, competed for the Opals from 1974 to 1982. Bennie competed in two World Championships and the women's basketball team at Louisiana State in the 1980s, wore the number 15, the number Jackson wears in her mother's honour. Bennie was one of the first Australian women to participate in the American collegiate system, where she was known for her brash style of play and was dubbed "the assassin." When Lauren and her brother were young, they continued to play basketball on a local basis, and her family had a basketball court in their backyard when Jackson was growing up. Her grandfather played for the Western Suburbs Magpies.
Jackson grew up in Albury, where she attended Murray High School. She obtained her Higher School Certificate in Canberra while studying with the Australian Institute of Sport. Jackson obtained a psychology degree at Lomonosov Moscow State University and then moved to America by correspondence. In 2007, she was enrolled in a university course in company administration.
She was attending Macquarie University in Sydney in 2010. Her coursework was based on cultural studies, and included topics such as women's rights and racial discrimination. Injuries have barred her from attending college until 2010, but she was back to college in 2012, and her ambitions have included becoming a United Nations diplomat. She has also considered becoming a feminist advocate. Jackson was inspired by a book about the Rwandan Genocide, and she's now an ambassador for a charity that aims to support the abused women of that war. Jackson was still looking for a Bachelor of Gender and Diversity at the University of Canberra by 2015, largely through distance learning.
Jackson was involved in other sports as a youth. She was active in athletics at school and played tennis, but she stopped playing tennis because of competitions that refused to accommodate her ability to play basketball. In the same way, she competed on her school netball team until the age of 14, but she had to leave due to basketball commitments. Jackson trains by pumping weights during the off-season.
Jackson, who stands at 5' 5 in), is 195 cm (6 ft 5 in) tall. She was 5 feet (5.9 in) tall when she was 15 years old by the time she turned 16, and she was still tall by that time.
Harry Gray, Jackson's first child, was born in 2017. In 2018, she had her second child.