Thompson honed her basketball skills as a Lady Raider and was drafted by New York Liberty in the 1st round, as 9th overall pick.

While starting for the Indiana Fever, Thompson scored a single game high of 22 points and collecting 15 rebounds.

While playing for the Seattle Storm in 2004, the team defeated the Connecticut Sun winning them the first Championship in 25 years highlighting her career as a professional basketball player.

[2][3] Career Highlights See more at: https://web.archive.org/web/20150109123357/http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/alicia_thompson/index.html?nav=page Thompson competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 1997 Jones Cup Team that won the silver medal in Taipei.

While playing for Donovan in Indiana in 2000, Thompson had the best season of her career, averaging 10.0 points and 5.1 rebounds and shooting 51.4% from the field to rank in the WNBA's top five.