Player Bio: Jamie Carey

  Jamie Carey
Jamie Carey
Player Profile
Class:
Junior
Hometown:
Thornton, CO
High School:
Horizon
Height:
5-6
Position:
Guard
Experience:
1V

At Stanford: Forced to sit out the 2000-01 season because of recurring concussions ... Named the 2000-01 Pac-10 Freshman of the Year ... Set a Stanford single season record with 81 3-pointers, which is also the third highest total in Pac-10 history and best ever by a freshman.

1999-2000 Season: a-carey.jpgTurned in one of the finest freshman seasons in Stanford women's basketball history en route to Pac-10 Freshman of the Year honors ... Also earned Freshman All-America honors from Basketball News, the Women's Basketball Journal and the Women's Basketball News Service ... Honorable Mention All-Pac-10 ... Averaged 11.0 points, 3.0 assists and 2.2 rebounds in 29 starts at the off-guard position ... Also averaged a team-high 12.4 points per game in conference play ... Made 81 3-pointers to break Vanessa Nygaard's school single season record of 75 (1995-96) ... Needed just 27 games to break the mark which Nygaard set in 31 ... Also ranked second in the Pac-10 and 14th in the nation in 3-point percentage (45.5; 81-of-178), and 12th in the nation in 3-pointers per game with 2.8 ... Made at least one trey in 28 of the 29 games in which she appeared, and made four or more 3's in a game on 11 occasions ... Shot an even more impressive 47.8 (55-of-115) percent from 3-point range in Pac-10 contests ... Shot 87.5 (7-of-8) percent from 3-point range on Jan. 27 at Washington, which was tied for the seventh highest single game Division I 3-point shooting performance in 1999-2000 ... Scored in double figures 17 times, including eight of the last 10 games ... In her collegiate debut, scored 11 points in a starting role against the U.S. National Team ... Had 14 points, including four 3-pointers, vs. Tennessee on Nov. 27 ... Had 15 points and a career-high seven assists in upset win at then-No. 15 Arizona on Jan. 8 ... Recorded 16 points and five assists in come-from-behind home win over then-No. 24 Oregon on Jan. 15 ... Turned in her best performance of the season on Jan. 27 at Washington despite reaggravating a high left ankle sprain ... Went 7-of-8 from behind the arc against the Huskies en route to a career-high 25 points ... Following that career-best scoring effort, left the arena on crutches and missed the Jan. 29 game at Washington State ... Had 16 points, five assists and four rebounds in upset win over then-No. 17 UCLA on Feb. 3 ... Had 15 points on five 3-pointers vs. Arizona on March 9 ... Tallied 15 points, including three 3-pointers, five assists and four rebounds in the season finale at Georgia on March 20.

High School: Graduated from Horizon High School in 1999 ... Led the state of Colorado in scoring in 1999, while guiding her high school team to the final eight in the state tournament ... Named 1999 First Team Parade All-American, while also earning both Regional and Gatorade Player of the Year honors... First Team All-State selection by both the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News from 1997-99 ... Named First Team All-Front Range League from 1996-99 ... Named a 1999 Phoenix/WBCA All-American ... Named 1999 Ms. Colorado Basketball by the Denver Post and News4/Rocky Mountain News ... Selected as one of the top five seniors in the nation by USA Today ... Had her high school jersey placed in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 1999 ... Earned Honorable Mention All-America honors from USA Today in 1998 ... Captain of the 1998 U.S. World Youth Games team which earned a bronze medal ... Named a 1998 Street & Smith's Third Team All-American ... Averaged 20.5 points and 6.8 assists per game in 1998, while shooting 84 percent from the free throw line ... Was second in Colorado's Division 5A in points and assists in 1998, and led Horizon to the state final four ... Received Honorable Mention All-American honors from both USA Today and Street & Smith's in 1997 ... Selected as one of the top 10 sophomores in the nation by USA Today in 1997 ... Led the state of Colorado in scoring and was second in assists in Division 5A, while guiding the Horizon team to a runner-up state finish in 1997 ... Led Colorado Hoopsters AAU team to three titles in 1997 (Las Vegas Jr. National Championship, End of the Oregon Trail Championship and the Dallas Slamfest Championship) ... Received 1996 Honorable Mention All-America honors from Street & Smith's, and was named Second Team All-Colorado by the Denver Post ... Led Colorado's Division 5A in scoring in 1996 ... Named to the Academic All-State Team from 1996-99 ... Member of the National Honor Society from 1996-98 ... Named to Who's Who Among American High SchoolStudents from 1996-99 ... Class valedictorian.

Personal: Parents are Mike and Debbie Carey ... When not playing basketball, enjoys biking and writing poetry.