Rebecca Harris

Personal: Rebecca Harris is a member of Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball’s Player Executive Committee. She grew up living abroad as part of a military family and works as a real estate agent in the Bay Area. She spoke English and Tagalog as a child and has coached at the high school and collegiate levels. Her hobbies include reading, traveling, and writing. She authored the book “How Bad Do YOU Want It?” and also works as a motivational speaker. She would be a travel blogger if she was not playing basketball and enjoys writing, reading, traveling, and adding to her shoe collection.

2024 Season: During her third Athletes Unlimited Pro Basketball season, Harris compiled 2,739 leaderboard points and authored a 7-5 record, including a perfect 3-0 mark in Week One and Week Four. She appeared in eight games as a reserve and averaged 1.1 points and 0.5 rebounds per contest. She netted a season-high five points against Team Cloud in the season finale, making 2-of-3 field goal attempts. She also collected a career-high 392 leaderboard points and grabbed a season-high two rebounds against Team Gray on March 16.

2023 Season: In her second Athletes Unlimited season, Harris secured 2,414 leaderboard points and registered a season-high 329 points in the season opener against Team Sims on February 23. She was one of nine players to wear all four jersey colors during the season. She averaged 1.8 points and 0.7 rebounds per contest and scored a season-high seven points on 3-of-6 shooting from the field against Team Smith to open Week Three. Harris started the season with five points and three rebounds off the bench against Team Sims and netted four points with two rebounds against Team Sims on March 10.

2022 Season: Harris closed her inaugural season in 22nd place on the leaderboard, tallying 3,152 points, including a season-high 358 points against Team Sims in Week One. She appeared in all 15 games, including four starts, and averaged 8.7 points and 2.5 rebounds per game with seven double-digit scoring performances. She reached double figures in scoring five consecutive games from January 28 to February 5. During this five-game streak, she averaged 12.6 points, including a season-high 17 points against Team Sims on January 28. She closed Week One with a season-high eight rebounds in addition to 13 points against Team Russell, shooting 4-for-7 from the field, including a 3-of-4 effort from three-point range. Harris scored 13 points against Team Hawkins to begin Week Four, converting 4-of-8 field goal attempts, including a 3-for-6 performance from long range. She finished Week Two with back-to-back 10-point games against Team Brown and Team Harrison.

Other Professional Experience: Harris played for four seasons for the St. Louis Surge of the Global Women’s Basketball Association and helped the Surge win two Global Women’s Basketball Association championships. She also guided the Flint Monarchs to the 2022 GWBA title. She spent 10 seasons playing overseas in the Czech Republic, Greece, Poland, Turkey, and Ukraine and was a three-time International All-Star Team pick. Harris also spent time with the Bay Area Phoenix of the Women’s Premier Basketball Association and guided the Phoenix to a second-place finish in the 2024 FIBA Women’s Basketball League Americas Tournament, averaging 19.4 points per game.

At Illinois: Harris played two seasons at Illinois after transferring from Rend Lake College. She became the first junior college player to transfer to Illinois since Yolanda Smith in 2000. She appeared in 65 games with the Fighting Illini with 26 starts and was sixth in Illinois history with a .793 career free throw percentage. As a senior, she ranked second on the team with a 10.1 scoring average and received Big Ten All-Tournament Team honors in 2007-08. She earned Honorable Mention NJCAA All-America honors in 2005-06 after averaging 23.6 points and 5.6 assists per game. She led the Warriors to a 38-25 record in two seasons.