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Born | Melbourne, Victoria | 25 May 1969||||||||||||||
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Lucille Maree Hamilton (born 25 May 1969) is a former Australian women's basketball player. [1] Her married name is Lucille Bailie. [2] [3]
Hamilton played for the Australia women's national basketball team during the late 1980s and early 1990s and competed for Australia at the 1990 World Championship in Brazil. [4] Hamilton also represented Australia at the 1989 World Championship for Junior Women held in Spain, where she won a bronze medal. [5] [6] [7]
In the domestic Women's National Basketball League (WNBL), Hamilton played 377 games for the Dandenong Rangers and Canberra Capitals. This equalled the all-time record held with Rachael Sporn, [8] [9] until it was broken by the Canberra Capitals' Jess Bibby on 14 November 2015. [10] In 1988, Hamilton won the inaugural Australian WNBL Youth Player of the Year, now known as the Betty Watson Rookie of the Year. [11] [12] [13] In 1998, Hamilton was awarded Life Membership to the WNBL. [14] Hamilton's younger sister, Jacinta Hamilton, also played for the national basketball team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. [9]
She ran as a Liberal Party candidate in the 2004 Australian Capital Territory election, [15] but was not elected. [16]
She served as general manager of the Canberra Capitals for seven years, stepping down in February 2025. [17]