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| wnba_profile = lauren_jackson }} Lauren Elizabeth Jackson (born 11 May 1981) is an Australian professional basketball player. The daughter of two national basketball team players, Jackson was awarded a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 1997, when she was 16. In 1998, she led the AIS side that won the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) 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. Since 2010, Jackson plays with the Capitals during the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) offseason. Jackson made the Australian under-20 team when she was only 14 years old, and 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 the 2000 Summer Olympics, and 2004 Summer Olympics teams, captain of the 2008 Summer Olympics team, winning three silver medals. She was also part of the Australian team that won the bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Jackson was a member of the Australian Senior Women's Team that won a silver medal at the 2002 FIBA World Championship for Women in China, co-captain of the team that won a gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, and captain of the team that won a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA World Championship for Women in Brazil. In 2001, Jackson entered the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) draft and was selected by the Seattle Storm, which viewed Jackson as a franchise player. She has won two WNBA titles with the Storm, in 2004 and 2011, the latter also earning Jackson the WNBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award. Jackson ranks among the top WNBA players in played games and minutes, field goals and three point shoots, and turnover percentage. Jackson has played club basketball in Europe with WBC Spartak Moscow in Russia and Ros Casares Valencia in Spain. She has also played with the Women's Korean Basketball League, where she was named the league's Most Valuable Player and set a league record scoring 56 points, and the Women's Chinese Basketball Association. Besides her basketball career Jackson is in the process of attaining her university degree at the Macquarie University, majoring in gender studies. ==Personal== Lauren Elizabeth Jackson, whose nicknames include "Loz", "Jacko" and "LJ",〔 was born in Albury, New South Wales,〔〔〔〔 on 11 May 1981,〔 the oldest of two children of Gary Jackson and his wife Maree Bennie. Both her parents played for Australia's 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 women's basketball team at Louisiana State in the late 1970s, wearing the number 15, the number Jackson wears in her mother's 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 Magpies. Jackson grew up in Albury,〔 where she attended Murray High School.〔 She earned her Higher School Certificate in Canberra while she was training with the Australian Institute of Sport.〔 Jackson studied for a psychology degree at Lomonosov Moscow State University and continued via correspondence from America. In 2007 she was working on a university course in business management.〔 When she finishes her playing career, Jackson wants to become a basketball administrator.〔 She said "Where I put my time and energy is now crucial. I want to get involved in the political side of sport rather than the media and I need to learn from the people who have been there before."〔 In 2010, she was taking classes at Macquarie University in Sydney. Her course work was centred in cultural studies and included topics like women's rights and racism.〔 Injuries have prevented her from studying around 2010,〔 but in 2012, she was back working on her degree,〔 and her aspirations have included becoming an United Nations diplomat. She has also considered becoming an advocate for women.〔 Her interests regarding gender studies were inspired by a book regarding the rape during the Rwandan Genocide, and Jackson is even an embassador of a foundation that seeks to empower the abused women of that war.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Ambassador: Top basketball player Lauren Jackson is the ambassador of the Mukomeze foundation )〕 As a youngster, Jackson was active in other sports. She was involved in athletics at school and played tennis,〔 which she gave up because competitions conflicted with her ability to play basketball.〔 Similarly, she played on her school netball team,〔 until the age of 14, giving it up because of basketball commitments.〔 In the off season, Jackson trains by pumping weights. Jackson is tall.〔〔〔〔〔 She was this tall by the time she turned 16,〔 after she gained in height when she was 15 years old.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lauren Jackson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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