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Allison Hightower

{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1988)}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Allison Hightower

| image = Allison Hightower cropped.jpg

| position = Guard

| height_ft = 5 | height_in = 10

| weight_lbs = 139

| league =

| team =

| number =

| nationality = American

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1988|4|6|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Dallas, Texas

| high_school = Seguin (Arlington, Texas)

| college = LSU (2006–2010)

| draft_league = WNBA

| draft_year = 2010

| draft_round = 2

| draft_pick = 15

| draft_team = Connecticut Sun

| career_start = 2010

| career_end =

| years1 = {{WNBA Year|2010}}–{{WNBA Year|2014}}

| team1 = Connecticut Sun

| years2 = {{WNBA Year|2017}}

| team2 = Washington Mystics

| highlights =

| wnba_profile = allison_hightower

}}

Allison Kina Hightower (born April 6, 1988) is an American professional women's basketball player who last played for the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was drafted 15th overall in the 2010 WNBA draft.

High school career

Hightower was born in Dallas, Texas was named a WBCA All-American. She participated in the 2006 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored five points.

College career

Hightower attended Louisiana State University, where she was named all first-team Southeastern Conference (SEC) following her senior season. She was also named SEC All-Defensive Team following her junior (2009) and senior (2010) seasons.{{cite web|url=http://www.wnba.com/draft2010/profiles/prospect_hightower_allison.html|title=WNBA.com: Prospect: Allison Hightower|accessdate=2 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111224201716/http://www.wnba.com/draft2010/profiles/prospect_hightower_allison.html|archive-date=24 December 2011|url-status=dead}}

College statistics

Source

{{NBA player statistics legend}}

class="wikitable"

!Year

!Team

!GP

!Points

!FG%

!3P%

!FT%

!RPG

!APG

!SPG

!BPG

!PPG

2006–07

|LSU

|38

|234

|36.5%

|31.8%

|77.1%

|2.3

|1.6

|0.9

|0.6

|6.2

2007–08

|LSU

|37

|262

|40.4%

|37.4%

|47.6%

|2.5

|1.6

|0.8

|0.5

|7.1

2008–09

|LSU

|30

|447

|45.7%

|18.6%

|68.3%

|4.3

|3.0

|1.9

|1.2

|14.9

2009–10

|LSU

|31

|565

|44.6%

|39.8%

|75.0%

|3.5

|1.9

|2.0

|0.4

|18.2

Career

|

|136

|1508

|42.6%

|34.5%

|70.7%

|3.1

|2.0

|1.4

|0.7

|11.1

Professional

Highwater played in the WNBA 2010–2014, and in 2017.{{cite web|title=Allison Hightower |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/allison-hightower|publisher=Women's National Basketball Association |accessdate=10 Jul 2022}}

She was played in the European Basketball League and in the Israel Basketball league as part of the Israeli team Elitzur Ramla and won the champion, and Maccabi Bnot Ashdod.{{cite web|title=Allison Hightower |url=https://basketball.eurobasket.com/player/Allison-Hightower/Israel/Maccabi-Bnot-Ashdod/120399?Women=1|publisher=European Basketball Association |accessdate=10 Jul 2022}}

Career statistics

{{WNBA player statistics legend}}

=WNBA=

==Regular season==

{{WNBA player statistics start|caption=WNBA regular season statistics}}

|-

| align="left" | 2010

| align="left" | Connecticut

|20||1||10.4||.317||.167||.813||1.3||0.5||0.7||0.1||0.5||2.7

|-

| align="left" | 2011

| align="left" | Connecticut

|25||2||9.2||.339||.222||.750||0.6||0.5||0.4||0.0||0.3||2.0

|-

| align="left" | 2012

| align="left" | Connecticut

|34||29||24.3||.352||.237||.914||2.3||2.5||1.3||0.1||1.4||6.8

|-

| align="left" | 2013

| align="left" | Connecticut

|21||21||32.0||.424||.364||.700||3.1||3.0||1.1||0.3||1.5||12.8

|-

| align="left" | 2014

| align="left" | Connecticut

|14||10||23.9||.394||.222||.909||2.2||1.4||1.3||0.3||0.9||7.7

|- class="sortbottom"

| style="text-align:left;"| 2015

| colspan=13 style="text-align:center;"| Did not play (injury)

|- class="sortbottom"

| style="text-align:left;"| 2016

| colspan=13 style="text-align:center;"| Did not play (injury)

|-

| align="left" | 2017

| align="left" | Washington

|11||0||13.2||.362||.200||.875||1.3||1.1||0.7||0.0||0.4||4.7

|- class="sortbottom"

| rowspan=2 style="text-align:left;"| Career

| align="left" | 6 years, 2 teams

|125||63||19.3||.378||.264||.820||1.8||1.6||0.9||0.2||0.9||6.1

|- class="sortbottom"

| style="text-align:center;"| All-Star

| 1 || 0 || 18.0 || .429 || .000 || — || 2.0 || 4.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || 1.0 || 6.0

{{S-end}}

==Playoffs==

{{WNBA player statistics start|caption=WNBA playoff statistics}}

|-

| align="left" | 2011

| align="left" | Connecticut

|2||0||14.5||.571||.667||1.000||2.0||0.5||1.0||0.0||0.5||6.0

|-

| align="left" | 2012

| align="left" | Connecticut

|5||5||26.6||.375||.300||.857||3.8||3.8||0.4||0.0||1.6||7.8

|-

| align="left" | 2017

| align="left" | Washington

|5||0||9.2||.409||.200||—||1.4||0.4||0.4||0.0||0.4||3.8

|- class="sortbottom"

| align="left" | Career

| align="left" | 3 years, 2 teams

|12||5||17.3||40.6||33.3||88.9||2.5||1.8||0.5||0.0||0.9||5.8

{{S-end}}

References

{{Reflist|refs=

{{cite web|title=Past WBCA HS Coaches' All-America Teams |url=http://www.wbca.org/pages/AWARDS_caat_hs_past |publisher=Women's Basketball Coaches Association |accessdate=1 Jul 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715025150/http://www.wbca.org/pages/AWARDS_caat_hs_past |archivedate=2014-07-15 }}

{{cite web|title=WBCA High School All-America Game Box Scores |url=http://www.wbca.org/pages/AWARDS_high_school_all-america_game_box_scores |publisher=Women's Basketball Coaches Association |accessdate=29 Jun 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715064856/http://www.wbca.org/pages/AWARDS_high_school_all-america_game_box_scores |archivedate=2014-07-15 }}

{{cite web|last1=|first1=|title=Women's Basketball Player stats|date=|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careersearch|website=NCAA|accessdate=5 October 2015}}

}}

External links

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  • [http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=275495 LSU Lady Tigers bio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181220231051/http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=275495 |date=2018-12-20 }}

{{2010 WNBA draft}}

{{Connecticut Sun}}

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Category:1988 births

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Category:Parade High School All-Americans (girls' basketball)

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Category:Washington Mystics players

Category:21st-century American women

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