Former Chicago Sky guard and WNBA sharpshooting legend Allie Quigley has formally retired from basketball three years after enjoying her final recreation, she introduced Tuesday in The Gamers Tribune.
Quigley loved a 14-year WNBA profession, enjoying for her hometown crew of the Sky from 2013-22, the place she turned a three-time All-Star and four-time 3-point shootout champion — a file throughout the WNBA and NBA.
Whereas the retirement of the previous DePaul nice and Joliet, Illinois, native has lengthy been assumed, she made it public this week.
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Quigley wrote in The Gamers Tribune that she was near stepping away after 2021, the yr she and spouse Courtney Vandersloot led the Sky to the franchise’s first WNBA title.
“I simply took the 2023 season off … then I took the 2024 season off … then I took the 2025 season off….. you get the concept,” Quigley wrote. “However all jokes apart, I by no means truly meant to do an Irish goodbye. Once I sat out after 2022, it was for a really particular motive. It was so I may begin the following part of my life: changing into a mother.”
Quigley stated she hoped to get pregnant quick and maybe play another season after having a child, “however issues did not occur as quick as we’d have favored. They did occur, although!!”
Quigley and Vandersloot welcomed their first baby, Jana Christine, on April 8 of this yr, and along with her arrival, Quigley “really feel[s] able to lastly and formally say goodbye to my basketball profession.”
Previous to touchdown in Chicago, Quigley bounced round within the WNBA, enjoying for Phoenix, Indiana, San Antonio and Seattle. The Storm had initially chosen her within the second spherical of the 2008 draft earlier than waiving her in coaching camp, however Quigley was finally picked up by the Mercury and spent her first two seasons within the league with them.
Quigley averaged 10.9 factors and 39.4% 3-point capturing throughout her profession and emerged as a dominant power within the WNBA 3-point capturing contest, which she received in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022. She additionally received two Sixth Participant of the 12 months honors with the Sky.
“I really like realizing that I can look again on my profession and say it was actually, actually good — nevertheless it was a part of the start of one thing really nice,” Quigley stated.
Quigley was the Sky franchise’s all-time main scorer till final month, when she was surpassed by Vandersloot. Vandersloot went down with a season-ending ACL tear this previous weekend.