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Jillian Alleyne
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Alleyne in 2019
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Personal information
Born (1994-08-16) August 16, 1994 (age 30)
Fontana, California, U.S.
High school Summit (Fontana, California)
Listed height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Career information
College Oregon (2012–2016)
NBA Draft 2016 / Round: 2 / Pick: 20th overall
Selected by the Phoenix Mercury
Pro career 2017–present
Career history
2018–2019 IDK Gipuzkoa
2018–2019 Hapoel Rishon LeZion
2019 Minnesota Lynx
2019–2020 Elitzur Ramla
2021 Washington Mystics
2022–2023 Maccabi Ramat Gan
2023 Elitzur Ramla
2023–2024 Panathinaikos
Career highlights and awards
  • 2x Third-team All-American – AP (2015, 2016)
  • Pac-12 Co-Player of the Year (2016)
  • 2x Pac-12 All-Defensive Team (2015, 2016)
  • 3x All-Pac-12 (2014–2016)
  • Pac-12 All-Freshman Team (2013)
  • NCAA season rebounding leader (2014)

Jillian Alleyne is an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), And play for Elitzur Ramla in the Israeli Female Basketball Premier League. She played college basketball for University of Oregon.

High school

Alleyne graduated from Summit High School in Fontana, California, in 2012. She was a McDonald's All-American nominee, named Sunkist League MVP, an all-state selection, and Inland Valley Player of the Year.

Awards and honors

She recorded 21 consecutive double-doubles in an NCAA game, the third most in NCAA women's basketball history. She averaged 19.6 points per game and 16.3 rebounds per game during the 21 games.

Alleyne shared the media version of the Pac-12 Player of the Year award in 2016 with Oregon State's Jamie Weisner, who had also won the Pac-12 coaches' version of the award.

She led among Division I teams with 16.2 rebounds per game in her sophomore year 2013–14. The following year she was second, averaging 15.2 rebounds per game and in her senior year she was also second in the nation, averaging 13.6 rebounds per game. In each of her last three years, she was the nation's leader, among Division I players, in offensive rebounds per game. In 2014–15 she was the US leader in double doubles (double digit scoring and double digit rebounds). She recorded a double double in 29 games.

For her college career, she has the third most rebounds and the second most double doubles in NCAA Division I history.

Oregon statistics

Legend
  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
 TO  Turnovers per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high  *  Led Division I
Year Team GP Points FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2012-13 Oregon 31 402 45.1 - 53.8 11.9 1.0 0.9 1.3 13.0
2013-14 Oregon 32 684 55.4 - 70.9 *16.2 2.0 1.6 1.1 21.4
2014-15 Oregon 30 551 57.6 50.0 56.4 15.2 1.2 0.8 1.4 18.4
2015-16 Oregon 27 514 58.5 - 60.7 13.6 2.0 1.4 1.1 19.0
Career Oregon 120 2151 54.3 20.0 61.7 14.3 1.5 1.2 1.2 17.9

WNBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game  RPG  Rebounds per game
 APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game  BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game
 TO  Turnovers per game  FG%  Field-goal percentage  3P%  3-point field-goal percentage  FT%  Free-throw percentage
 Bold  Career high ° League leader

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG TO PPG
2019 Minnesota 5 0 2.8 .333 .000 .000 1.0 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.0 0.8
2021 Washington 2 0 4.0 .000 .000 .000 2.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0
Career 2 years, 2 teams 7 0 3.1 .250 .000 .000 1.3 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.6

Club honors

Panathinaikos

  • 1× Greek Cup Winner: 2024

Personal life

Along with other members from the Ducks basketball team, she has done charity work in the Dominican Republic. In college, she is majored in communication disorders and sciences.

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