Former Chicago Sky guard and WNBA sharpshooting legend Allie Quigley has formally retired from basketball three years after taking part in her final sport, she introduced Tuesday in The Gamers Tribune.
Quigley loved a 14-year WNBA profession, taking part in for her hometown crew of the Sky from 2013-22, the place she grew to become a three-time All-Star and four-time 3-point shootout champion — a document 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.
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 thought,” Quigley wrote. “However all jokes apart, I by no means really meant to do an Irish goodbye. After I sat out after 2022, it was for a really particular motive. It was so I may begin the subsequent part of my life: turning into a mother.”
Quigley stated she hoped to get pregnant quick and maybe play yet another season after having a child, “however issues did not occur as quick as we might have appreciated. They did occur, although!!”
Quigley and Vandersloot welcomed their first little one, Jana Christine, on April 8 of this yr, and together 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, taking part in 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 taking pictures throughout her profession and emerged as a dominant pressure within the WNBA 3-point taking pictures contest, which she gained in 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022. She additionally gained two Sixth Participant of the Yr honors with the Sky.
“I really like realizing that I can look again on my profession and say it was actually, actually good — but it surely was a part of the start of one thing actually 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.
