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{{Short description|Australian basketball player (born 1972)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2020}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2011}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|name=Trish Fallon
|birth_date={{birth date and age|df=yes|1972|07|23}}
|birth_place=[[Melbourne]], Victoria, Australia
|medaltemplates={{MedalSport |Women's [[Basketball]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{AUS}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Basketball at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalBronze|[[Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics|1996 Atlanta]]|[[Australia women's national basketball team|National team]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[Basketball at the 2000 Summer Olympics|2000 Sydney]]|National team}}
{{MedalSilver| [[Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens]]|National team}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Championships]]}}
{{MedalBronze|2002 China|Team Competition}}
}}

'''Trisha Nicole Dykstra''' ({{nee|'''Fallon'''}}; born 23 July 1972) is an Australian former [[basketball]] player in the Australian [[Women's National Basketball League]] and the [[Women's National Basketball Association]] (WNBA) of the United States.  She also played with the [[Australia women's national basketball team|Australian national team]] during the three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in [[1996 Summer Olympics|1996]], including as captain at the [[2004 Summer Olympics|2004 Athens Olympics]]. Fallon started her career at age sixteen.

Fallon was selected by the [[Minnesota Lynx]] in the second round (19th pick overall) of the [[1999 WNBA draft]].  After the [[1999 WNBA season]], she was traded to the [[Phoenix Mercury]] along with [[Adia Barnes]] and [[Tonya Edwards]] in exchange for [[Marlies Askamp]], [[Angela Aycock]] and [[Kristi Harrower]] on 27 October 1999.

Fallon was married to Stuart Dykstra on 29 July 2007 in [[Port Douglas, Queensland]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.susport.com/Content/News/8%20August%202007/Flameslegendweds.aspx |title=Flames legend weds |accessdate=2008-11-15 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080721103448/https://www.susport.com/Content/News/8%20August%202007/Flameslegendweds.aspx |archivedate=21 July 2008}}</ref>

In 2010 Fallon was inducted into the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame.

She has remained involved with basketball in Australia having worked for the Sydney Uni Flames and now with the [[Dandenong Rangers]] Basketball Association in Victoria. She is also the Team Manager for the Australian Opals.

Fallon had a decorated basketball career and played 224 games for Australia at junior and senior level including 34 games as the Opals Captain.

==Career highlights==
* Three-time Olympian (two silver and one bronze medal)
* Two World Championships (bronze medal in 2002)
* Maher Medal - International Player of the Year
* Played 251 in the WNBL for three clubs, AIS, Melbourne and Sydney between 1989 and 2007
* WNBL Youth Player of the Year - 1991
* Four Time WNBL All-Star Selection 1996, 1997, 1999/00, 2004/05
* WNBL Co-MVP in 1999/2000
* Member of the WNBL's 25th Anniversary Team
* Played with numerous teams in Europe including Spain's Ros Casares Valencia, with whom she won the Spanish Cup in 2003

==WNBA career statistics==
{{WNBA player statistics legend}}

===Regular season===
{{WNBA player statistics start}}
|-
| align="left" | [[1999 WNBA season|1999]]
| align="left" | [[1999 Minnesota Lynx season|Minnesota]]
| 26 || 0 || 10.8 || .300 || .353 || .742 || 0.8 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 0.6 || 3.0
|-
| align="left" | [[2001 WNBA season|2001]]
| align="left" | [[2001 Phoenix Mercury season|Phoenix]]
| '''31''' || '''16'''|| '''27.1''' || '''.490''' || '''.405''' || '''.815''' || '''2.5''' || '''1.1''' || '''1.1''' || '''0.4''' || 1.5 || '''10.4'''
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" | 2 years, 2 teams
| 57 || 16 || 19.7 || .445 || .389 || .792 || 1.7 || 1.0 || 0.8 || 0.3 || 1.1 || 7.0
{{S-end}}

==See also==
* [[List of Australian WNBA players]]
* [[WNBL Most Valuable Player Award]], (season 1999–00)
* [[WNBL Rookie of the Year Award]], (season 1990)
* [[WNBL Top Shooter Award]], (season 1999–00)
* [[WNBL All-Star Five]], (seasons 1996, 1997, 1999–00 & 2004–05)

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/trisha_fallon/index.html?nav=page WNBA player profile]
*[http://www.abc.net.au/sport/content/200502/s1304167.htm 16 February 2005 article]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060506231115/http://www.sydneyuniflames.com/Current%20news/Fallonemployed.htm 21 June 2005 press release on Fallon's association with Group Event Travel]

{{1999 WNBA draft}}
{{Australia Women Basketball Squad 1996 Summer Olympics}}
{{Australia Women Basketball Squad 2000 Summer Olympics}}
{{Australia Women Basketball Squad 2004 Summer Olympics}}
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