Alison Bales

infobox WNBA Player
name = Alison Bales
nickname = Ali

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position = Center
height_ft = 6 | height_in = 7
weight_lbs = 218
team = Atlanta Dream
number = 33
nationality = USA
birth_date = birth date and age|1985|4|4
birth_place = Indianapolis, Indiana
college = Duke University '07
draft = 9^th overall
draft_year = 2007
draft_team = Indiana Fever
career_start = 2007
career_end =
former_teams = Indiana Fever
awards =

Alison Marie Bales (born on April 4, 1985 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American WNBA player who plays for the Atlanta Dream. After living in Indianapolis for 5 years her family moved to Beavercreek, Ohio and she played high school basketball for Beavercreek High School. After her senior year she committed to Duke University to play for the Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team. At 6' 7" she played center for Duke and later became the all-time shot block leader at Duke and 3rd all-time in NCAA history. Bales graduated from Duke with a double major in cultural anthropology and biology.

On her birthday, Bales was drafted #9 overall by the Indiana Fever in the 2007 WNBA Draft.

She joined Barack Obama in a game of 3-on-3 basketball along with local students at the Maple Crest Middle School in Kokomo, Indiana on April 25, 2008. Bales played on Obama's team, which won 15-5, giving Obama a chance to display his basketball skills to the national media. Fever teammate Tamika Catchings served as the referee.

After a season and a half with Indiana, Bales was traded to the Atlanta Dream for Kristen Mann on July 4, 2008.

Bales also played for the Dynamo Moscow professional basketball club in Russia during the winter of 2007-2008.

External links

* [http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/alison_bales/index.html Alison Bales' Playerfile]
* [http://www.wnba.com/fever/ Indiana Fever Official Website]
* [http://www.wnba.com/fever/news/fever_trades_bales_for_mann.html Dream trades Mann for Bales]