Jess Bibby

Jessica Bibby

Bibby during a game between the Capitals and Logan Thunder at AIS Arena
No. 11 – Canberra Capitals
Position	Guard
League	WNBL
Personal information
Born	(1979-08-23) 23 August 1979 (age 37) Melbourne, Victoria
Nationality	Australian
Listed height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Career information
WNBA draft	2000 / Round: 3 / Pick: 45th overall
Selected by the New York Liberty
Playing career	1995–present
Career history
1996–2006	Dandenong Rangers
2000	New York Liberty
2006–present	Canberra Capitals
Medals Representing  Australia Women's basketball Junior World Championships 1997 Junior World Championships Women's basketball JFIBA Oceania Championship 2009 FIBA Oceania Championship Women's basketball

Jessica Bibby (born 23 August 1979) is an Australian sportswoman. She has played over 200 games in the WNBL and won several WNBL Championships. She has played for the Dandenong Rangers and Canberra Capitals. She was drafted by the WNBA's New York Liberty in 2000 and played for the team. She has played for the Australian national basketball team at junior and senior level.

In 2017, turned to Australian rules football, playing for Greater Western Sydney in all seven games of the 2017 AFL Women's season. Bibby retired from professional sport at the end of the season.

Bibby was born on 23 August 1979. She is 168 centimetres (66 in) tall. In 1999, she seriously injured her back, and it was possible that she might never play basketball again, but surgery allowed her to return to the sport.

Bibby is a guard.

As a junior basketball player, she played for the Kilsyth Cobras in Victoria.

In 2011, Bibby was a member of the QBL's Gladstone Port City Power that won their third championship in three years. In a game that season, she came first in the scoring with 50 points, 8 points ahead of the second highest scorer and Capitals teammate Rebecca Haynes who scored 42.

Bibby started playing in the WNBL in 1996. In her debut season with the league, she was named the WNBL's Betty Watson Rookie of the Year. She has won several championships in the WNBL. In January 2008, she played her 200th game in the league.

Bibby joined the Rangers in 1996 and was a member of the team until 2006. In her first season with the team, she averaged 4.5 points per game. Her highest season average points per game for the Rangers was 14.9 during the 1999/2000 season. In her final season with the team, she played only 6 games after having played 21 games during all seasons from 1998/1999 to 2004/2005. Bibby has been part of the Rangers teams that won WNBL Championships during the 2003/2004 season, and during the 2004/2005 season.