Abby Bishop
Bishop in Madison Square Garden in 2015
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| No. 5 – Seattle Storm | ||||||||||
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| Position | Forward / Center | |||||||||
| League | WNBA | |||||||||
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| Born |
29 November 1988 Booleroo, South Australia |
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| Nationality | Australian | |||||||||
| Listed height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||
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| Playing career | 2010–present | |||||||||
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| 2005–2006 | Australian Institute of Sport | |||||||||
| 2006–2010 | Canberra Capitals | |||||||||
| 2010 | Seattle Storm | |||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Dandenong Rangers | |||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Adelaide Lightning | |||||||||
| 2013–2016 | Canberra Capitals | |||||||||
| 2015–present | Seattle Storm | |||||||||
| 2016–2017 | Tarbes Gespe Bigorre | |||||||||
| 2017–present | Adelaide Lightning | |||||||||
| Career highlights and awards | ||||||||||
| Stats at WNBA.com | ||||||||||
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Abby Bishop (born 29 November 1988) is an Australian professional basketball forward/center for the Seattle Storm of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). In Australia, she has played for the Australian Institute of Sport from 2005–2006, the Canberra Capitals from 2006–2010, Dandenong Rangers from 2010–2011 Canberra Capitals. Currently a member of the 2016/17 the Adelaide Lightning. She is a member of the Australia women's national basketball team and won a gold medal during the 2007 Oceania World Qualifications series.
Bishop was born on 29 November 1988. She is 189 centimetres (74 in) tall, and was featured in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL)'s 2009 league calendar. In August 2013, Bishop took custody of her two-day-old niece, Zala Kate Bishop.
Bishop is a tall forward. In 2008, she was featured as a basketball star on myFiba.
Bishop played in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) over the winter 2011 season for Swinburne Kilsyth Lady Cobras alongside other WNBL stars Eva Afeaki and Chantella Perera. She took leave from Swinburne Kilsyth Lady Cobras duties during June while touring with the Australian Opals team in China where Australia competing in the Qi Yi Four Nation tournament along with Brazil and New Zealand.
Bishop's rookie season in the WNBA was in 2010. In her first season in the WNBA playing for the Seattle Storm, she only played in 16 games, averaging 6.8 minutes per game. In these appearances, she averaged 2.8 points and 1.3 rebounds per game. Almost all her games and minutes came near the end of the season when the Storm head coach, Brian Agler rest the team's starters. While the Storm won their second WNBA championship in 2010, Bishop did not play in any post season games in her rookie year because she had a concussion during practice for the post season. She did not play with the Storm during the 2011 WNBA season as she wanted to focus on making the 2012 Australian Olympic squad. Bishop said: "I've decided to stay in Australia and focus on London. I know it's a year away, maybe over a year away now. But for me, it's about staying here and showing myself to the coaches where if I'm going back to America, it's going to be a little bit harder, not playing. So solely my focus is making that London team." On February 20, 2015, Bishop returned to the Storm after spending five years playing for the WNBL.
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