Former Chicago Sky guard and WNBA sharpshooting legend Allie Quigley has officially retired from basketball three years after playing her last game, ESPN noted.
Quigley competed in the WNBA for 14 years, playing for her hometown team of the Sky during 2013-22, where she became a three-time All-Star and four-time three-point shootout champion—a record that holds across the WNBA and the NBA.
Writing in The Players Tribune in a column titled “Irish Goodbye,” Quigley stated, “By 2021, I knew I was close to retirement. Then, of all years, that year we finally won the championship—and I thought for a second, ‘Wow. What a way to go out.’ But after thinking about it a little more, I realized I actually wanted to savor the end of my career. I wanted the experience of walking into each arena and knowing it might be the last time I’d ever play there. And I wanted the experience of trying to defend our championship that we worked so hard for, for so long. So that’s what I did. I didn’t tell a lot of people, but I played in 2022 thinking it would probably be my last season. I really, truly soaked it all in.
“I never retired, though.”
Quigley is married to current Chicago Sky player Courtney Vandersloot, who will miss the rest of the 2025 season after tearing her right ACL on June 7 against the Indiana Fever. Quigley and Vandersloot welcomed their first child, Jana Christine, on April 8 of this year, and with her arrival, Quigley “feel[s] ready to finally and officially say goodbye to my basketball career.”
Quigley was the Sky franchise’s all-time leading scorer until last month, when Vandersloot surpassed her record.