Ex-Sky guard Quigley makes retirement official

Former Chicago Sky defender and WNBA sharpshooting fable Allie Quigley has officially retired from hoops 3 years aft playing her past game, she announced Tuesday successful The Players Tribune.

Quigley enjoyed a 14-year WNBA career, playing for her hometown squad of the Sky from 2013-22, wherever she became a three-time All-Star and four-time 3-point shootout champion -- a grounds crossed the WNBA and NBA.

While the status of the erstwhile DePaul large and Joliet, Illinois, autochthonal has agelong been assumed, she made it nationalist this week.

Quigley wrote successful The Players Tribune that she was adjacent to stepping distant aft 2021, the twelvemonth she and woman Courtney Vandersloot led the Sky to the franchise's archetypal WNBA title.

"I conscionable took the 2023 play disconnected ... past I took the 2024 play disconnected ... past I took the 2025 play off..... you get the idea," Quigley wrote. "But each jokes aside, I ne'er really meant to bash an Irish goodbye. When I sat retired aft 2022, it was for a precise circumstantial reason. It was truthful I could commencement the adjacent signifier of my life: becoming a mom."

Quigley said she was hoping to get large accelerated and possibly play 1 much play aft having a baby, "but things didn't hap arsenic accelerated arsenic we would person liked. They did happen, though!!"

Quigley and Vandersloot welcomed their archetypal child, Jana Christine, connected April 8 of this year, and with her arrival, Quigley "feel[s] acceptable to yet and officially accidental goodbye to my hoops career."

Prior to landing successful Chicago, Quigley bounced astir successful the WNBA, playing for Phoenix, Indiana, San Antonio and Seattle. The Storm had initially selected her successful the 2nd circular of the 2008 draught earlier waiving her successful grooming camp, but Quigley was yet picked up by the Mercury and spent her archetypal 2 seasons successful the league with them.

Quigley averaged 10.9 points and 39.4% 3-point shooting during her vocation and emerged arsenic a ascendant unit successful the WNBA 3-point shooting contest, which she won successful 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022. She besides won 2 Sixth Player of the Year honors with the Sky.

"I emotion knowing that I tin look backmost connected my vocation and accidental it was really, truly bully -- but it was portion of the opening of thing genuinely great," Quigley said.

Quigley was the Sky franchise's all-time starring scorer until past month, erstwhile she was surpassed by Vandersloot. Vandersloot went down with a season-ending ACL teardrop this past weekend.