Nationality USA Name Ilisha Jarret Listed height 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) Role Basketball Player | Listed weight 191 lb (87 kg) Height 1.96 m Pro career 1996–present Weight 87 kg | |
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League FIBA Women's Pro League Born 8 January 1977 (age 48)
Illinois, USA ( 1977-01-08 ) | ||
Ilisha Keisha Marie Jarrett, born 8 January 1977, in Illinois, USA, is a former professional women basketball player from Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
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Sports career
Ilisha began her sports career in 1996 by playing for Mississippi State University and after five years, played in the FIBA professional women's basketball league. The 38-year-old American has played for Russian, Korean, Portuguese, Hungarian, Croatia and German clubs.
Sexual assault incident
Jarrett moved to Gospic (Croatia) in September 2004 as a reinforcement to Croatia's best women's basketball team Gospic-Industrogradnja, which had placed in the top sixteen teams in the FIBA Cup the previous season.
In 2005, a Croatian businessman, Joso Mraovic, in the town of Gospic, Croatia where Jarrett was staying in a hotel, sexually assaulted her. Initially it was ruled that it was not rape because Mraovic put his finger inside her anus only, and it was ruled that the anus was not a sexual organ, nor was the finger. However later in 2008, Mraovic, then 58, was sentenced to three years in prison.