Education
She attended high school at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Illinois. Attended Neuqua Valley High School where she ended her career there with stat totals of 1,752 points and 1,200 rebounds.
She attended high school at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Illinois. Attended Neuqua Valley High School where she ended her career there with stat totals of 1,752 points and 1,200 rebounds.
She recently played the forward position for the Washington Mystics in the Women's National Basketball Association.
She has three younger sisters: Kristin, Zoe, and Sydney. She knew at age five that she wanted to be a professional athlete. She played with Los Angeles Sparks teammate Candace Parker in junior leagues prior to the going to high school.
lieutenant is believed that she was the first female to reach 1,000 points, 1,000 rebounds, 500 assists, 500 blocks, and 500 steals in Illinois high school history.
Named 2004 Parade Magazine All-America third team, and 2004 WBCA All-American honorable mention. She spent her entire college career at Purdue University, majoring in organizational leadership and supervision (management).
She redshirted her senior year (2007-2008), and would stay at Purdue for a fifth year. She was a 2-time All-Big Ten, 3-time All-Defensive Big Ten, racked up 25 career double-doubles, led the Purdue Boilermakers in points (133), rebounds (92), and blocks (15) per game in 2008.
She holds the Purdue school record for blocked shots and rebounds.
Wisdom-Hylton came back to Purdue during the 2009-2010 season to be an assistant coach. Source
Picked thirteenth overall in the 2009 Women's National Basketball Association Draft by the Los Angeles Sparks. Wisdom-Hylton was traded to the Chicago Sky before the start of the 2011 season for a 2012 second round draft pick.
In the 2012 season, she played with the Washington Mystics.
After the season ended, she announced her retirement to coach full-time. She averaged 3.2 points per game in 124 Women's National Basketball Association games.
On September 26, 2012, 4 days after she played her final Women's National Basketball Association game, Wisdom-Hylton signed with Purdue as their assistant coach for the 2nd time. She took the place of Martin Clapp, who left the school earlier that month.
Played for Ravenna Esperides/Glyfada in Greece for the 2009–2010 off-season for 8 games before returning to the United States. to be an assistant coach at her alma mater Purdue University.
Foreign the 2010–2011 off-season she played for Elitzur Ramla in Israel for 11 games and then went to France to play for Union Hainaut for four games. Lindsay would go to Vienna, Austria to play for the Flying Foxes for the 2011-2012 season in the Austrian Basketball League. Wisdom-Hylton would then go to Israel to play for Elitzur Ramia in 2012 for the remainder of the 2011-2012 off-season where she had played previously.
Played on the 2007 United States of America U21 National team that won the gold at the International Basketball Federation Women"s World Championship in Moscow, Russia. In 2006 she played on the United States of America U20 National team that won a gold medal in the International Basketball Federation Americas Championship for Women in Mexico City, Mexico.
