Leanne Walker

Walker in 2020

Leanne Walker (born 17 July 1968) is a New Zealand former basketball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics with the New Zealand women's national basketball team Tall Ferns. She was the team captain in the 2004 Olympics in Greece. Walker also competed for New Zealand at the 1994 World Championship held in Australia. She has been an assistant coach for the Northern Kāhu in the Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa New Zealand professional women's basketball league.

Walker has three daughters who also play basketball. Krystal Leger-Walker played college basketball with the Northern Colorado Bears and Washington State Cougars, and most recently in 2025 for Northern Kahu in New Zealand TBA. Charlisse Leger-Walker played college basketball for Washington State Cougars and UCLA Bruins. With the Bruins, Charlisse won the NCAA championship, the first Kiwi to do so. Charlisse is the first New Zealander to be drafted into the WNBA. Tannika Leger-Walker joined the Nebraska-Omaha Mavericks roster in 2025 as a freshman.

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Leanne Walker". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
  2. ↑ FIBA Archive. 1994 World Championship for Women. New Zealand. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
  3. ↑ McFadden, Susan - Three generations: the court queens of Kāhu. Newsroom, November 20, 2024
  4. ↑ Cook, Dave (17 March 2023). "How a grieving Charlisse Leger-Walker found strength in her WSU teammates to help the Cougars make it to the NCAA". The Spokesman-Review. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
  5. ↑ Stanley, Ashley (11 May 2020). "Leger-Walker assists little sister into US college life". Newsroom. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
  6. ↑ NCAA basketball: UCLA’s Charlisse Leger-Walker becomes first Kiwi to win women’s national championship New Zealand Herald, April 6, 2026
  7. ↑ Soper, Alice - Charlisse Leger-Walker WNBA draft pick a milestone for Kiwi basketball. New Zealand Herald, April 15, 2026
  8. ↑ Omaha Mavericks Roster 2025-26 University of Nebraska-Omaha