Lisa Wallbutton (born 14 January 1986 in

Henderson, New Zealand Henderson ( mi, Ōpanuku) is a major suburb of West Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand. It is west of Auckland city centre, and west of the Whau River, a southwestern arm of the Waitematā Harbour. The suburb is located within the H ...

) is a basketball player for New Zealand. She won Outstanding Young Player in the 2004 and 2005 seasons, and MVP at the 2005 NZ U23 tournament. She debuted for the

Tall Ferns The New Zealand's elite women's basketball team is affectionately known to their home fans as the Tall Ferns. The team has been coached by Guy Molloy since 2018. The assistant coaches are Aik Ho and Jody Cameron. The Tall Ferns have a FIBA worl ...

(New Zealand women's basketball team) in 2005 at the William Jones Cup in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won a silver medal as part of the Tall Ferns. Wallbutton has also represented New Zealand at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. “My fondest memory of my time with the Tall Ferns will always be competing at the Beijing Olympics. For me that was a childhood dream come true and an opportunity to compete at the highest level against the very best players in the world at the time.” In 2010 she played for the

Albury Wodonga Bandits Albury Wodonga Bandits is a NBL1 East club based in Albury, New South Wales. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 East. The club is a division of the overarching Border Basketball Club, the major administrative basketball or ...

in the

SEABL The South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) was an Australian semi-professional basketball league. The league comprised both a men's and women's competition and was run by the country's governing body, Basketball Australia. The league wa ...

(South East Australian Basketball League) in the ABA. Wallbutton, still a prominent player in the Western Australian State League with the Perth Redbacks.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallbutton, Lisa 1986 births Living people Basketball players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Commonwealth Games medallists in basketball Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand New Zealand expatriate basketball people in Australia New Zealand women's basketball players Olympic basketball players of New Zealand People educated at Westlake Girls High School Sportspeople from the Auckland Region