Australian basketball player
Lucille Hamilton
Lucille Bailie watches Jess Bibby break her record of 377 WNBL games at the AIS arena in Canberra on 14 November 2015 |
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Born | (1969-05-25) 25 May 1969 (age 55) Melbourne, Victoria |
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Lucille Maree Hamilton (born 25 May 1969) is a former Australian women's basketball player.[1] Her married name is Lucille Bailie.[2][3]
Biography
Hamilton played for the Australia women's national basketball team during the late 1980s and early 1990s and competed for Australia at the 1990 World Championship in Brazil.[4] Hamilton also represented Australia at the 1989 World Championship for Junior Women held in Spain, where she won a bronze medal.[5][6][7]
In the domestic Women's National Basketball League (WNBL), Hamilton played 377 games for the Dandenong Rangers and Canberra Capitals. This equalled the all-time record held with Rachael Sporn,[8][9] until it was broken by the Canberra Capitals' Jess Bibby on 14 November 2015.[10] In 1988, Hamilton won the inaugural Australian WNBL Youth Player of the Year, now known as the Betty Watson Rookie of the Year.[11][12][13] In 1998, Hamilton was awarded Life Membership to the WNBL.[14] Hamilton's younger sister, Jacinta Hamilton, also played for the national basketball team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.[9]
She ran as a Liberal Party candidate in the 2004 Australian Capital Territory election,[15] but was not elected.[16]
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