Alison Lacey
Personal information | |
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Born | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory | 26 December 1987
Listed height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
Listed weight | 159 lb (72 kg) |
Career information | |
High school | Ballard (Huxley, Iowa) |
College | Iowa State (2006–2010) |
WNBA draft | 2010: 1st round, 10th overall pick |
Selected by the Seattle Storm | |
Position | Guard |
Number | 40 |
Coaching career | 2011–present |
Career history | |
As player: | |
2010 | Seattle Storm |
2010 | Canberra Capitals |
As coach: | |
2012–2013 | Marshalltown CC |
Career highlights and awards | |
Stats at WNBA.com | |
Stats at Basketball Reference |
Alison Lacey Otzelberger (born Alison Mavis Lacey; 26 December 1987) is an Australian-American basketball coach and former player. She played in the WNBA and was subsequently a collegiate women's basketball coach in the US at Marshalltown Community College in Iowa.
Lacey played at Iowa State from 2006 to 2010, where she became the highest drafted player in school history. She became the only player from ISU, and only the seventh in Big 12 history, to record 1500 points, 500 rebounds, and 500 assists. She became the second player in school history to record a triple-double. She also led the nation in assist-turnover ratio for most of the season, while finishing second at the end. She led Iowa State to four consecutive NCAA tournaments, which included an Elite 8 and a Sweet 16. She was on the All-Big 12 First Team, and was an All-American honorable mention.
Iowa State statistics
[edit]Source[1]
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2006-07 | Iowa State | 35 | 271 | 44.4 | 40.5 | 82.0 | 3.9 | 1.8 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 7.7 |
2007-08 | Iowa State | 34 | 484 | 40.0 | 40.7 | 77.7 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 14.2 |
2008-09 | Iowa State | 35 | 392 | 34.9 | 32.4 | 84.6 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 1.1 | 0.3 | 11.2 |
2009-10 | Iowa State | 30 | 473 | 44.2 | 37.3 | 87.9 | 4.9 | 6.2 | 1.3 | 0.1 | 15.8 |
Career | Iowa State | 134 | 1620 | 40.4 | 37.7 | 83.3 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 12.1 |
Professional
[edit]Lacey watched the Seattle Storm win their second championship in 2010.[2] She also played for the Canberra Capitals in the WNBL. She did not return to the WNBA for the 2011 season.
Coaching
[edit]Lacey was hired as head coach of the Marshalltown Community College women's basketball team in February 2012 after former coach Larry Roberts was released from his coaching duties. The Tigers finished the year with an 11–17 record. Lacey led the team to an 11–20 record in 2012–13, her only full season as head coach. She resigned effective 1 July 2013, after her then-fiancé T. J. Otzelberger accepted a coaching position with the men's basketball program at the University of Washington. Otzelberger is currently the head coach of the Iowa State Cyclones men's basketball. The two were married on 1 June 2013 in Milwaukee.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Women's Basketball Player stats". NCAA. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ^ Voepel, Mechelle (16 September 2010). "Second title even sweeter for Storm". ESPN. Archived from the original on 20 September 2010. Retrieved 17 September 2010.
Other references
[edit]External links
[edit]- Career statistics and player information from WNBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com
- WNBA biography at the Wayback Machine (archived 4 November 2012)
- Iowa State bio
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Australian expatriate basketball people in the United States
- Australian women's basketball coaches
- Australian women's basketball players
- Canberra Capitals players
- Iowa State Cyclones women's basketball players
- Junior college women's basketball coaches in the United States
- Seattle Storm draft picks
- Seattle Storm players
- Sportspeople from Canberra
- Guards (basketball)
- 21st-century American women
- Sportswomen from the Australian Capital Territory