Kristi Harrower

Kristi Harrower

Kristi Harrower in 2012
Personal information
Born	(1975-03-04) 4 March 1975 (age 41) Bendigo, Victoria
Nationality	Australian
Listed height	162 cm (5 ft 4 in)
Listed weight	63 kg (139 lb)
Career information
High school	White Hills (Bendigo, Victoria) Bendigo (Bendigo, Victoria)
Playing career	1991–2015
Position	Point guard
Career history
1991	Melbourne Tigers
1992–1993	AIS
1994	Adelaide Lightning
1995–2000	Melbourne Tigers
1998–1999	Phoenix Mercury
2000–2001	Wuppertal
2001–2003	Minnesota Lynx
2002–2005	Aix-en-Provence
2005	Minnesota Lynx
2005–2007	Valenciennes
2007	Bendigo Spirit
2007–2008	UMMC Ekaterinburg
2008–2015	Bendigo Spirit
2009	Los Angeles Sparks
Career highlights and awards
2× WNBL champion (2013–2014) French LFB champion (2007) ACC All-Star five (2007)
Medals Kristi Harrower Medal record Women's Basketball Representing  Australia Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Team Competition 2004 Athens Team Competition 2008 Beijing Team Competition 2012 London Team World Championship 2006 Brazil Team Competition World Junior Championships 1993 Seoul Team Competition

Kristi Harrower (born 4 March 1975) is an Australian professional basketball player, who three times (2000, 2004 and 2008) won the silver medal with the Australian Women's Team at the Summer Olympics, and also the bronze in 2012. She played in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) from 1998 to 2005 for the Phoenix Mercury and Minnesota Lynx.

Harrower was born on 4 March 1975, and calls Bendigo her hometown. She is 163 centimetres (64 in) tall and weights 139 pounds (63 kg).

In 2009, her grandmother died. She was featured in the WNBL's 2009 league calendar. Harrower had an injury in 2012 to her Achilles and could not run on it for a while.

Harrower is a guard. She plays point guard. She is an Australian Institute of Sport alumni and the programme considers her one of their success stories.

As a competitor at the 1994 Australian Under-20 national championships, Harrower won the Bob Staunton Award. In 1992 and 1993, she had a scholarship with the Australian Institute of Sport. In 2008, she was featured as a basketball star on myFiba.

Harrower has played professional basketball for over twenty years. In 2006, she played for Valenciennes in France.

She entered the WNBA as an undrafted player. Her first team she played with was the Phoenix Mercury, whom she signed with before the start of the 1998 season. In her two seasons with the team, she played in 62 games. She joined the Minnesota Lynx in 2000 along with Mercury players Marlies Askamp and Angela Aycock as part of a trade that saw Tonya Edwards and Trisha Fallon go from Minnesota to Phoenix. She played for the Lynx in 2003, where she averaged 2.8 points and 2.3 assists per game. She ended her Lynx career in 2005 having played 96 games while averaging of 3.8 ppg, 2.4 apg and 1.8 rpg.