Dominique Allen
British forward who played at the 2012 Olympics and won Commonwealth silver in 2018.
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Dominique Jayne Allen, born 10 September 1989, is a British former basketball player who last played for the Manchester Mystics of the Women's British Basketball League. She was a member of the British women's basketball team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, marking the first appearance of a women's basketball team from Great Britain at an Olympic Games. Allen also earned a silver medal with Great Britain at the 2018 Commonwealth Games after a 99-55 loss to Australia in the gold-medal match.
Career
Allen started her basketball journey in Birmingham before spending two seasons playing in the English Basketball League and BUSA competition for Northumbria University, where she earned Most Valuable Player honors in 2006-07. She then transferred to Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma, playing alongside British teammate Georgia Jones. In her first season she played 10 games, and 33 in her sophomore year. During the 2010-11 season, she averaged 5.7 points and 6.0 rebounds per game over 34 games, including a career-best 15-point and 10-rebound effort against Western Illinois University for her first career double-double.
As a senior, she averaged 4.3 points and 4.1 rebounds, starting 12 of 31 games. Her final college game came on March 16, 2012, against Wichita State University in the first round of the 2012 Women's National Invitation Tournament, where she played eight minutes in a 79-57 loss. Allen had already represented Great Britain at the under-20 level in the 2008 and 2009 European Championships, averaging 5.2 points and 7.3 rebounds in 2009. She played for the GB Futures team at the 2011 World University Games in Shenzhen, China.
International career
Her senior international debut came in 2012 against Croatia, and she was selected as one of twelve players for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, becoming the first Oral Roberts University alumnus to appear at an Olympics. She also played for the Great Britain senior team during the 2013, 2015, and 2017 EuroBasket tournaments. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, she was part of the squad that earned the silver medal after a 99-55 loss to Australia in the gold-medal match.
Professional career
Allen made her professional debut in the 2012-13 season with Italian side Bologna, becoming a regular starter. She left Bologna to sign with the Manchester Mystics for the 2017-18 season. In January 2017, she was named the Molten WBBL Player of the Month, and later that season she led the Mystics to a WBBL Cup Final win, earning MVP awards after a 21-point, 11-rebound performance in the final. In November 2018, she signed a contract with ACS Sepsi in Romania.
She also played for Visby Ladies in Sweden in 2019, before returning to the Washington Mystics for the 2019-20 WBBL season.
Career statistics and honours
Medals
- Silver Commonwealth Games — 2018 Gold Coast Team
Oral Roberts University
| Year | Team | GP | Points | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-09 | Oral Roberts | 10 | 11 | 33.3% | 0.0% | 14.3% | 1.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.1 |
| 2009-10 | Oral Roberts | 32 | 29 | 44.8% | 28.6% | 11.1% | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.9 |
| 2010-11 | Oral Roberts | 34 | 195 | 55.9% | 0.0% | 68.8% | 6.0 | 0.6 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 5.7 |
| 2011-12 | Oral Roberts | 31 | 132 | 50.9% | 35.7% | 54.3% | 4.1 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 4.3 |
| Career | 107 | 367 | 51.9% | 25.0% | 54.5% | 3.7 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 3.4 | |
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