Description
Rachael Pamela Sporn is a former Australian basketball player. She played for Adelaide Lightning in Australia's Women's National Basketball League where she was twice league MVP and seven times selected in the WNBL All-Star Five. She heads the all-time points scoring and rebound list for the WNBL. The Women's National Basketball Association club Detroit Shock recruited Sporn for the 1998 season.
Sporn played 304 games for the national basketball team, including three Olympic Games?two silver medals and a bronze ?and three World Championships.
Sporn is a member of the Australian Sports Hall of Fame and the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame. She was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in 2000 and the Centenary Medal in 2001.
Her older brother Kieran Sporn was also a top level athlete who played Australian rules football for West Adelaide in the SANFL, as well as Essendon and Fitzroy in the VFL/AFL.
Rachael Sporn is currently the only Adelaide Lightning player to have her number retired by the team. Her #14 singlet hangs on the western wall of the Adelaide Arena alongside the Lightning's 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998 and 2008 WNBL championship banners.
Born
May 26th, 1968 in Murrayville (Age 56)
Last Changes
2006/12/27
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2008/01/04
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2004/05/27
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