Kathleen MacLeod

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Kathleen MacLeod
No. 44 – Dandenong Rangers
Position Guard
League WNBL
Personal information
Born 23 October 1986 (1986-10-23) (age 37)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australian
Listed height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Career information
Playing career 2003–present
Career history
Australian Institute of Sport (2003–2005)
Dandenong Rangers (2005–2007)
Bendigo Spirit (2007–2008)
Dandenong Rangers (2010-present)
Career highlights and awards
2003 WNBL Rookie of the Year
3x WNBL All-Star (2008, 2011, 2012)
1x WNBL Champion (2012)
Medals
Representing  Australia
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Team

Kathleen MacLeod (born 23 October 1986)[2][3] is an Australian basketball player who was part of the Australian team that won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[4]

Personal

MacLeod is from Melbourne.[3] She has four siblings, two brothers and two sisters.[3] She is 168 centimetres (66 in) tall.[2][3]

Basketball

MacLeod is a guard.[2] As a competitor at the 2005 Australian Under-20 national championships, she won the Bob Staunton Award.[5] She played junior basketball for the Victorian-based Nunawading Spectres.[3] She played basketball in Hungary in 2008/2009 and France in 2009/2010.[3]

WNBL

MacLeod had a scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport in 2003 and 2004,[6][7] and was a member of their team during the 2003/2004 and in 2004/2005 seasons.[3] MacLeod joined and played the Dandenong Rangers during the 2005/2006 season,[3] and continued to play for them in 2006/2007.[3][8] She missed the first third of the season because she was injured.[8] In the team's 66-61 preliminary loss to the Adelaide Lightning, she scored only 11 points as the only other player on the team to score in the double digits.[9] For the 2007/2008 season, MacLeod was a member of the Bendigo Spirit.[3] In a January 2008 game against Townsville, she scored 28 points in an 83-78 loss for Bendigo.[10] MacLeod played for the WNBL's Dandenong Rangers in 2010/2011, where she was the team's leader alongside Abby Bishop.[3][11] In a February 2011 game victory for the Dandenong Rangers over Townsville Fire with a score of 70-54, she scored 14 points.[12] She continued to play for Dandenong in 2011/2012,[3] helping guide her team to the WNBL's championship.[2][13] She was named to the WNBL's All-Star Five.[14] She played guard for the Rangers.[3]

National team

MacLeod was a member of the 2005 Opals.[15][16] In March 2007, she was named to the national team what would prepare for the 2008 Summer Olympics.[17] In late March, early April 2008, she participated in a week-long training camp with the national team in Canberra.[18] She played in a three-game test series Taiwan in May 2008.[19][20] She was named to the 2012 Australia women's national basketball team.[14] She was scheduled to participate in the national team training camp held from 14 to 18 May 2012 at the Australian Institute of Sport.[13]

See also

References

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