Rebecca Allen is an Australian basketball player for the New York Liberty of the Women\’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was a member of the Australian Women’s basketball team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, reaching the quarterfinals.
Rebecca Allen was born on November 6, 1992, in Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia. She played in the junior competition for the suburb Nunawading and was sought out by the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) at the age of 16.
Rebecca Allen debuted in the domestic Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) in 2009 for the Dandenong Rangers. In the team, she stayed for one season before moving to the Australian Institute of Sport, where played for two seasons (2010/2011 and 2011/2012). In her development in the Australian domestic league, she also played for Melbourne Boomers (2012-2015) and South East Queensland Stars (2015/2016).
In 2014, Rebecca Allen was awarded the WNBL Robyn Maher Defensive Player of the Year.
In 2015, Rebecca Allen signed as a free agent with the New York Liberty for the 2015 WNBA season. She made her WNBA debut in the Liberty’s 2015 season opener against Atlanta, scoring six points. Shortly into the 2015 season, she suffered a season-ending right knee cartilage injury and decided to return home to Australia to undergo surgery. In 2020, after the pandemic, she signed with the Spanish team, Valencia Basket, but in 2021 returned to the WNBA and plays for New York Liberty again.
Rebecca Allen is a current member of the Australian Women’s basketball squad. With the national team, she is a silver medalist in the World Cup 2018 in Spain, and a bronze medalist in 2014 Turkey and 2022 Australia.
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