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
I know I just can't keep going and going.
I made the decision that I was going to play tonight. This was huge for us. Going on the road and winning is big, and we definitely want to win the series in two games so we can relax and prepare for the next round.
I feel light as a feather, ... I'm really happy that we won. I feel like everyone has written us off all year, and I just knew we could make the playoffs. God, it just feels so good. It feels like a huge burden off our shoulders.
I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships, ... We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.
I don't think there's another team in the WNBL that's as talented,
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,
Once I made the decision to play, and it was my decision, I was going to do it. You go out there and give it your best shot. I've had better days (physically), but I'm OK.
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.
I can't even begin to explain how important it is to all the people who have been involved in our program, and built it to where it is today. I can't believe we won. I can't believe we have the gold medal.
I can see Sue and I leading this team to many more championships...We're going to take this and learn from it. We worked too hard for this.
I always had that desire to become a great athlete.
I love Seattle. I couldn't be anywhere else.
People come out to rough me up because they think I'm not going to play well. And maybe when I was in my teen years it worked well. But I'm used to it now.