Rachael Pamela Sporn is a former Australian basketball player. She played for Adelaide Lightning in Australia's Women's National Basketball League

Women's National Basketball League

The Women's National Basketball League is the pre-eminent women's professional basketball league in Australia. It currently is composed of ten teams. The league was founded in 1981 and is the women's counterpart to the National Basketball League...

 where she was twice league MVP and seven times selected in the WNBL All-Star Five. She heads the all-time points scoring and rebound list for the WNBL. The Women's National Basketball Association

Women's National Basketball Association

The Women's National Basketball Association is a women's professional basketball league in the United States. It currently is composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 24, 1996 as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association...

 club Detroit Shock

Detroit Shock

The Detroit Shock was a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. They were the 2003, 2006 and 2008 WNBA champion...

 recruited Sporn for the 1998 season.

Sporn played 304 games for the national basketball team

Australia women's national basketball team

The Australia Women's National Basketball Team is the women's National Basketball team for Australia. They won Gold at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games 2006 defeating New Zealand's Tall Ferns in the final match with a score of 77–39. They then followed it up with a gold medal at the 2006 FIBA...

, including three Olympic Games—two silver medals (2000 and 2004) and a bronze (1996)—and three World Championships

FIBA World Championship for Women

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 (1990, 1994 and 1998).

Sporn is a member of the Australian Sports Hall of Fame and the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame

Australian Basketball Hall of Fame

The Australian Basketball Hall of Fame was instituted by the Australian National Basketball League in 1998 as the NBL Hall of Fame as part of their 20th birthday celebrations...

. She was awarded the Australian Sports Medal

Australian Sports Medal

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 in 2000 and the Centenary Medal

Centenary Medal

The Centenary Medal is an award created by the Australian Government in 2001. It was established to commemorate the Centenary of Federation of Australia and to honour people who have made a contribution to Australian society or government...

 in 2001.

Sporn was born in Murrayville, Victoria

Murrayville, Victoria

Murrayville is a town on the section of the Mallee Highway between Ouyen and the South Australian border. It is about east of the South Australian border and north west of the state capital Melbourne, but east of Adelaide...

 in the far north west of Victoria. Her brother, Keiran Sporn played Australian rules football

Australian rules football

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 for West Adelaide

West Adelaide Football Club

West Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club in the South Australian National Football League . Commonly known as The Bloods and Westies, the clubs home base is City Mazda Stadium located in Richmond, an inner-western suburb of Adelaide.-Early Years :West Adelaide was formed in...

 and Essendon

Essendon Football Club

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League...

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