page_title: Lauren Jackson
section_title: European basketball
hierarchical_section_title: Lauren Jackson / Basketball / European basketball
caption_attribution_description: English: LAuren Jackson jugando con el Ros Casares.
context_page_description: Lauren Elizabeth Jackson AO is an Australian former professional basketball player. The daughter of two national basketball team players, Jackson was awarded a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in 1997, when she was 16. In 1998, she led the AIS team that won the Women's National Basketball League championship. Jackson joined the Canberra Capitals for the 1999 season when she turned 18 and played with the team off and on until 2006, winning four more WNBL championships. From 2010 to 2016, Jackson played with the Canberra Capitals, which she did during the Women's National Basketball Association offseason during the time she continued WNBA play.
  Jackson made the Australian under-20 team when she was only 14 years old and was first called up to the Australian Women's National Basketball Team when she was 16 years old. She was a member the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics teams and captain of the 2008 Summer Olympics team, winning three silver medals. She was also part of the Australian team that won the bronze at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
context_section_description: Jackson has played club basketball in Europe. She first signed with a European side at the end of the 2005 WNBA season, and went to Russia on a lucrative contract. In 2007, she was paid six figures in American dollars, four times her WNBA base salary, to play with WBC Spartak Moscow Region for one month. Her teammates included other international basketball Olympians: Sue Bird, Diana Taurasi, and Tina Thompson.  While playing for the team, she lived in a mansion owned by the team's owner with a view of a nuclear power plant. As a member of the team, she helped Spartak win the 2007 Russian Superleague title. Subsequently, she continued playing for Spartak and won two more Russian Superleague titles with the team, in 2008 and 2009. She scored 35 points in a EuroLeague Women 2008 in an 11 April 2008 game against UMMC Ekaterinburg while playing for Spartak.  This was the highest number of points that she scored in a single game in a Euroleague game. Later on, Jackson played for Spartak in the EuroLeague Women finals in Brno, which her team won. She finished the 2008 season with an average of 23.6 points per game and 7.1 rebounds per game.
  In 2009, Jackson had an option of extending her contract with Spartak for two more years. First, it looked likely that Jackson would stay with Spartak. However, following the assassination of Shabtai Kalmanovich, the owner of the team, she announced in November 2009 that she would stop playing for the team and not extend her contract She subsequently changed her mind and returned to play with the Spartak in 2010. In the 2009/2010 season games she averaged 15.2 points per game and 5.7 rebounds per game. On 3 December 2010 while playing with Spartak, she was named the EuroLeague Women Player of the Week.  Playing in the team's second match against a Kaunas Lithuanian side, she scored 28 points, had two blocks and had five rebounds while playing 31 minutes to lead her team to victory after having missed the first game where her team lost.
  In the 2010/2011 season, Jackson played for Spartak, where she averaged 17.3 points per game and 8.4 rebounds per game.  She left the team in early January 2011 because of an injury, returning to Australia for her recovery. Part of her treatment involved getting an MRI.  According to Jackson, she left Russia for Australia because "I couldn't move, the swelling was very obvious, and the pain was just a little bit too painful. That's when I got home to all these messages and e-mails from people back in Australia who had seen the scans and said 'you need to come back (to Australia) and start your rehab right away'."
  She played for the Ros Casares Valencia, Spain, in 2011 and 2012. She joined the team in 2011. It was her first year with a Spanish team. She played in the power forward position with the team. She ranked 16th in the league for three-point field goal shooting percentage at 41.5%.  She ranked 17th in the league for three-point field foals made per game at 1.4.  In the game against Spartak, she played in a season-high 31 minutes.  She missed the game against Galatasaray MP, playing zero minutes.  She scored 16 points in a 29 March 2012 game against Sparta&K M.R. Vidnoje, her highest total number of points in a single game in the 2011/2012 season.  Casares plays in the Spanish Liga Femenina and the EuroLeague Women.  After a February 2012 game, her Spanish team's general manager Carme Lluveras described her performance as perfect.  She has not started all games in the 2011/2012 season, coming off the bench on a few occasions because her team was stacked with talent.  She was averaging 20 minutes, 8.0 points, and 2.9 rebounds a game as of 10 February 2012. During the 2011/2012 season, she scored 14 points against Bourges, 15 points in an away game against UMMC Ekaterinburg, and six against Galatasaray at a home game.  In the game against the Turkish Galatasary, she scored an important three-pointer near the end of the game that helped stop a come-from-behind attempt by the opposition.
caption: Jackson played in Europe for the Ros Casares Valencia in 2011 and 2012
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