Education
She attended Bishop Blanchet High School in Seattle, Washington, and accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
She attended Bishop Blanchet High School in Seattle, Washington, and accepted a basketball scholarship to the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.
While at the University of the Pacific, she earned all Big West Conference second team honors from 2002-2004. In 2004, she received recognition on the first team all Big West Conference women's basketball tournament team. Throughout her four-year career at the University of the Pacific, she averaged 14.3 points per game and 6.7 rebounds per game.
She competed in the 2006 in Melbourne on the England women's national basketball team. d'Hont played for multiple European teams, including the Rhondda Rebels and Isolux Corsan Guadalajara. Gillian has also played for Guadalajara, Spain. Saarlouis, Germany; ADBA Aviles, Spain.
Barking Abbey, United Kingdom. Waregem, Belgium; and most recently Ancona, Italy. In 2014, d'Hondt accepted a coaching position at Northwest University in Kirkland, Washington as an assistant women's basketball coach.
In May 2015, d'Hondt took over as the head coach for the Mercer Island High School girls basketball team. She is the daughter of Canadian Olympic gold medalist for rowing, Walter D'Hondt.
She qualified for the 2006 England Women's Basketball National Team, and won a bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia. It was an historic event being the first time the men's and women's teams were competing as England in a major multi-sport event and it was the first Commonwealth Games in which basketball was featured.
