Ilisha Jarret

Ilisha Jarrett

Trinos Göttingen
League	FIBA Women's Pro League
Personal information
Born	(1977-01-08) 8 January 1977 Illinois, USA
Nationality	USA
Listed height	6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)
Listed weight	191 lb (87 kg)
Career information
Playing career	1996–present
Career history
Mississippi State University (1996-1998) University of Alabama in Huntsville (1998-2000) Ronchetti Cup 2002 (BK SGAU Samara) Korean Summer Basketball League (2003) Gospic Industrogradnja (2004-2005) Siemens Poprad(2005-2006) APS Siemens(2006-2008)
Career highlights and awards
Croatian Cup Winner 2005 Trocal League Finalist 2005

Ilisha Keisha Marie Jarrett, born 8 January 1977, in Illinois, USA, is a former professional women basketball player from Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

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.