Alanna Smith is a women's basketball player who plays for the Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA. She was born on September 10, 1996 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Smith started her basketball life at Wesley College in Melbourne but in 2015 she shifted to America for a better basketball experience and joined the Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team where she won Pac-12 Tournament MOP and All-defensive team selection in her senior year in 2019.
In 2019 Smith was selected 8th overall by the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA draft. In the same season, she joined the South Korean team, Incheon Shinhan Bank S-Birds for the WNBA off-season. Currently, Smith plays at Minnesota Lynx in the WNBA where she averages 11.0 points, 3.3 assists and 5.5 rebounds per game with 1.7 blocks and 1.6 steals per match as of August 28, 2024. After playing one season in South Korea, she left the team and joined the Adelaide Lightning in NBL in her home country.
Alanna Smith wingspan
Alanna Smith’s wingspan is 6 foot 8 inches or 203 cm or 2.03m. Smith is not a proper center but an excellent forward in that height category. She is a little undersized as a center but her footwork is so unique that she can match up with any center in the league. She is one of the best young wing defenders with a high vertical reach. In her first three league seasons in Phoenix, she averaged below 8 minutes and was less productive on the court. After that in Indiana and Chicago, she became a top-five player in defensive rating with 1.9 blocks and 1.6 steals per game.
In her entire WNBA career, Smith played 132 games where she averaged 6.6 points, 1.6 assists, and 4.3 rebounds per game with almost 1 block and 1 steal per match.
Alanna Smith's weights and heights
Alanna Smith’s height is 6 foot 3 inches or 1.91m and her weight is 180lb or 82kg as per the WNBA profile.
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A. Alanna Smith is 6 foot 3 inches tall.
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A. Alanna Smith attended Wesley College in Melbourne then in America at The Stanford Cardinal women's basketball team.