{{short description|Australian basketball player}} {{Infobox sportsperson |name=Lucille Hamilton | image = Lucille Bailie.jpg | caption = Bailie in November 2015 |birth_date={{birth date and age|1969|05|25|df=y}} |birth_place=Melbourne, Victoria |death_date= |death_place= |show-medals=yes |medaltemplates={{MedalSport |Women's Basketball}} {{MedalCountry | {{AUS}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Junior World Championships}} {{MedalBronze|1989 Spain|Team Competition}} }}
'''Lucille Maree Hamilton''' (born 25 May 1969) is a former Australian women's basketball player.<ref name=Hamilton>FIBA Archive. World Championship for Women. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140224000608/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/player/p/pid/6690/sid/2927/tid/239/tid2//_/1990_World_Championship_for_Women/index.html Player Profile: Lucille Hamilton]. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref> Her married name is Lucille Bailie.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080721032052/http://www.wnbl.com.au/index.php?id=351 Canberra Capitals Club History]. Basketball Australia. Women's National Basketball League. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref><ref>Stateline Canberra. [http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/act/content/2003/s1099908.htm Transcript Broadcast: 30/04/2004]. Australian Broadcast Corporation. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref>
==Biography== Hamilton played for the Australia women's national basketball team during the late 1980s and early 1990s and competed for Australia at the 1990 World Championship in Brazil.<ref>FIBA Archive. 1990 World Championship for Women. [https://archive.today/20121208141128/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/team/p/sid/2927/tid/239/_/1990_World_Championship_for_Women/index.html Australia]. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref> Hamilton also represented Australia at the 1989 World Championship for Junior Women held in Spain, where she won a bronze medal.<ref>FIBA Archive. 1989 World Championship for Junior Women. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091213210330/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/team/p/sid/2898/tid/239/_/1989_World_Championship_for_Junior_Women/index.html Team: Australia]. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref><ref>FIBA Archive. 1989 World Championship for Junior Women. [https://web.archive.org/web/20091003182047/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/event/p/cid/sid/2898/_/1989_FIBA_U19_World_Championship_for_Women/index.html Final Standings]. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/sports/basketball/achievements/australian_representative_history Basketball Australian Representative History (1989)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211192920/http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/sports/basketball/achievements/australian_representative_history |date=11 February 2012 }}. Australian Institute of Sport. Retrieved 16 October 2012.</ref>
In the domestic Women's National Basketball League (WNBL), Hamilton played 377 games for the Dandenong Rangers and Canberra Capitals. This equalled the all-time record held with Rachael Sporn,<ref>Women's National Basketball League. [http://www.wnbl.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Guide/2011_12/100_club.pdf Players with 100 or more career games] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130517232431/http://www.wnbl.com.au/fileadmin/user_upload/Media_Guide/2011_12/100_club.pdf |date=17 May 2013 }}. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref><ref name=Howell>Howell, Stephen (5 December 2005). [http://www.smh.com.au/news/basketball/little-awesome-jacinta/2006/02/07/1139074220621.html ''Little awesome Jacinta'']. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref> until it was broken by the Canberra Capitals' Jess Bibby on 14 November 2015.<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=Canberra Times |url=http://www.canberratimes.com.au/sport/basketball/wnbl-jess-bibbys-big-moment-fails-to-snap-canberra-capitals-out-of-slump-20151114-gkyzxg.html |date=14 November 2015 |accessdate=15 November 2015 |title=WNBL: Jess Bibby's big moment fails to snap Canberra Capitals out of slump |first=Jon |last=Huxworth }}</ref> In 1988, Hamilton won the inaugural Australian WNBL Youth Player of the Year, now known as the Betty Watson Rookie of the Year.<ref>[http://www.ausport.gov.au/news/ais_news/Taylor_Roberts_named_Womens_National_Basketball_League_Rookie_of_the_Year ''Tayla Roberts named Women's National Basketball League Rookie of the Year''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324104012/http://www.ausport.gov.au/news/ais_news/Taylor_Roberts_named_Womens_National_Basketball_League_Rookie_of_the_Year |date=24 March 2012 }} (25 March 2010). Australian Sports Commission. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref><ref>[http://www.basketball.net.au/index.php?id=934 Betty Watson]. Basketball Australia. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080721050249/http://www.wnbl.com.au/index.php?id=92 Youth and Rookie Player of the Year]. Basketball Australia. Women's National Basketball League. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref> In 1998, Hamilton was awarded Life Membership to the WNBL.<ref>[http://www.wnbl.com.au/index.php?id=61 WNBL Life Members] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312130150/http://www.wnbl.com.au/index.php?id=61 |date=12 March 2013 }}. Basketball Australia. Women's National Basketball League. Retrieved 13 October 2012.</ref> Hamilton's younger sister, Jacinta Hamilton, also played for the national basketball team at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne.<ref name=Howell/>
She ran as a Liberal Party candidate in the 2004 Australian Capital Territory election,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/act/content/2003/s1099908.htm |title=Stateline Canberra |date=30 April 2004 |first=Kathleen |last=Hyland |newspaper=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |accessdate=15 November 2015}}</ref> but was not elected.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.act.gov.au/elections_and_voting/past_act_legislative_assembly_elections/2004_election/list_of_elected_candidates_2004_election |title=List of elected candidates - 2004 Election |publisher=Elections ACT |accessdate=15 November 2015}}</ref>
She served as general manager of the Canberra Capitals for seven years, stepping down in February 2025.<ref>{{cite news |title=Lucille Bailie steps down as Caps GM, takes on role with the WNBL - UC Capitals |url=https://wnbl.basketball/uc-capitals/news/lucille-bailie-steps-down-as-caps-gm-takes-on-role-with-the-wnbl/ |access-date=26 February 2025 |work=UC Capitals |date=25 February 2025}}</ref>
==See also== * WNBL Rookie of the Year Award
==References== {{Reflist|30em}} {{Portal bar|Australia|Biography|Sports}} {{use Australian English|date=November 2015}} {{use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Lucille}} Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Australian women's basketball players Category:Basketball players from Melbourne Category:Sportswomen from Victoria (state) Category:20th-century Australian sportswomen