| Rank | Event | Year | Location | |
| Olympic Games | ||||
| 2 | Women | 2008 | Beijing, CHN | |
| 2 | Women | 2004 | Athens, GRE | |
| 2 | Women | 2000 | Sydney, NSW, AUS | |
| World Championship | ||||
| 1 | Women | 2006 | Brazil | |
| 3 | Women | 2002 | China | |
| 3 | Women | 1998 | Berlin, GER | |
| 5 | Women | 2010 | Czech Republic | |
Nickname
LJ, Loz, Lozza, Jacko (WNBA, 18 Jan 2006)
Hobbies
Having barbecues, fishing, spending time with friends. (WNBL, 18 Jan 2006)
Occupation
Athlete
Education
Psychology - Lomonosov Moscow State University [RUS] / Macquarie University [AUS]
Language(s) spoken
English
Club name
Seattle Storm/Canberra Capitals
Coach
Carrie Graf [national] (theaustralian.com.au, 04 May 2012)
Debut
1998 for Australia, World Championships (brisbanetimes.com.au, 26 Sep 2010)
Injuries
She suffered a hip injury [torn labrum] in June 2011 that required surgery and sidelined her for several months. (sbnation.com, 30 Jun 2011)
A stress fracture in her left shin bone forced her to miss most of the 2005/06 WNBL season and affected her build-up to the 2006 Commonwealth Games. (Athlete; AAP; The Australian, 18 Jan 2006)
Additional information
Start of sporting career
She began playing basketball at age 10. At 15 she left home to take up a scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra and made her debut for Australia's senior team at the age of just 16. (Athlete, 30 Apr 2000; ABC; laurenjackson.org, 29 Nov 2007)
Reason for taking up this sport
Her parents were both basketball players who represented Australia and she grew up immersed in basketball culture. (laurenjackson.org, 21 Jun 2012)
Ambitions
To win gold at the 2012 Olympic Games. After basketball she is interested in pursuing a career in social work, which she is passionate about. "My ambitions are more activism, more focused towards domestic violence, rape crisis, things like that." (bordermail.com.au, 06 May 2012)
Superstitions / Rituals
She plays in the No.15 in honour of her mother who wore the same number when she played. (WNBA, 24 Feb 2005)
Sporting philosophy / motto
"I play this game because I love it, I do it to please myself and only myself and when the day comes that I don't love it anymore I will walk away. Basketball is a love, you do it because you love it." (laurenjackson.org, 2006)
Awards
In 2010 she was voted the Women's National Basketball Association [WNBA] Most Valuable Player [MVP] for the third time [also in 2003, 2007] as well as being named finals MVP as she helped Seattle to a second championship. (au.news.yahoo.com, 27 Apr 2011)
After her Spartak Moscow team won the 2008 Euroleague title she was named the Final Four MVP. (FIBA, 14 Apr 2008)
She was awarded the Maher Medal as Australia's International Player of the Year in 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. (basketball.net.au, 21 Jun 2012)
She was named Women's National Basketball League [WNBL] MVP in 1999, 2000, 2003 and 2004, and WNBL Grand Final MVP in 2002, 2003 and 2006. (laurenjackson.org, 17 Oct 2007)
She was selected by Seattle as the number one pick in the 2001 WNBA Draft, making her the first Australian to be selected first overall. (wnba.com, 29 Nov 2007)
General
WNBA HIATUS
She announced in April 2011 that she would skip the first half of the 2012 WNBA season to spend three months preparing with the Opals for the 2012 Olympic Games in London. "The one thing I haven't done in my career is get a gold medal at the Olympic Games. It may be my last opportunity. Seattle Storm have been my priority for the past 11 years, they'll be my priority straight after the Olympics for probably the rest of my career. But this is something that I had to do." (au.news.yahoo.com, 27 Apr 2011)
RESIDENCE
She divides her time between living in and playing for Seattle in the WNBA, and in Australia where she lives and plays for the Canberra Capitals in the WNBL. When she signed a 2011 three-year deal with the Storm in the US, she also committed to at least another three seasons with the Capitals. (canberratimes.com.au, 29 Sep 2011)
TATTOOS
She has several tattoos, including a clover with 'mum' written underneath it on her lower back; Chinese characters that translate to 'different, special to excel,'; Marilyn Manson's lightning bolt logo on her right hip; and a celtic cross. (laurenjackson.org 05 Jun 2003)
HOMETOWN HERO
The sports stadium in her hometown of Albury was renamed the Lauren Jackson Sports Centre in her honour in October 2011. (laurenjacksonsportscentre.com.au, 22 Oct 2011)
Previous Olympics
Beijing 2008, Athens 2004, Sydney 2000
