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2003-04: Two-year team captain who played in 100 games with six starts in her four years in Tempe...earned first-team Pac-10 All-Academic honors for the third straight season, becoming the first women's basketball player in school history to be named to the all-academic first team three times in her career...lone senior on the team...a leader on and off the court...played in 10 games before tearing her anterior cruciate ligament on Dec. 27 in the team's Pac-10 season-opener against Washington State...helped ASU to a share of the 2001 Pac-10 title, the 2002 Pac-10 Tournament title and four consecutive postseason appearances, including NCAA Tournament berths in 2001 and 2002, in her four years in Tempe...averaged 1.2 points and 1.0 rebounds per game this year with her best game coming with four points and four rebounds vs. Grambling State on Nov. 23...finished her career with averages of 2.2 points and 1.4 rebounds per game...also shot 39.2 percent from the field and 71.6 percent from the free throw line in her career...averaged 5.6 points and 5.4 rebounds per game and shot 92.9 percent from the free throw line during ASU's Australian tour in August.
2002-03: Played in all 30 games with six starts ...earned first-team Pac-10 All-Academic honors for the second straight season...was a team co-captain...won the Bill and Judy Schaefer Academic Achievement Award at last year's team banquet...was the team's leading scorer off the bench with 4.5 points per game...finished third on the team in field goal percentage (.419) and free throw percentage (.714)...was named to the All-Tournament Team after averaging 10.5 points per game at the Wells Fargo Holiday Classic...scored a career-best 18 points on 7-of-8 shooting in a Feb. 6 win over Washington State...scored in double figures five times...started the first six games of the season...pulled down a career-best five rebounds three times, last at USC on Feb. 14...traveled with the Athletes in Action team in Spain in the summer before her junior year...was a Maroon & Gold Scholar-Athlete.
2001-02: Played in all 34 games, averaging 9.2 minutes per contest...won the Coach's Award at the season-end banquet for the second consecutive year...was also the recipient of the team's Most Improved Player award...averaged 1.8 points and 1.6 rebounds per game...earned first-team Pac-10 All-Academic honors...knocked down 38.5 percent of her three-point attempts (5-13)...scored a then career-high 10 points in a Dec. 5 win over Kansas, going 4-of-5 from the floor...had eight points on 3-of-4 shooting in a Feb. 16 win over UCLA, including two three-pointers...pulled down a season-best four rebounds four times, last vs. UCLA on Feb. 16...finished third on the team with six blocked shots, including one in ASU's NCAA win over Wisconsin on March 8...knocked down 71.4 percent of her free throw attempts (10-14)...was a Maroon & Gold Scholar-Athlete.
2000-01: Played in 26 games, averaging 4.5 minutes per contest...averaged 0.6 points and 0.5 rebounds per game in limited action...scored a season-high four points in a Dec. 21 win over Cal State Northridge...had a season-high three rebounds in a Feb. 17 win over UCLA...winner of the Coach's Award at the season-end banquet.
High School: A 2000 graduate of Niwot High School in Longmont, Colo....earned honorable-mention USA Today All-America honors as a senior...two-time all-conference, All-Boulder Country and all-area selection...earned second-team all-state accolades as a senior...was named the 2000 Niwot High School Female Athlete of the Year...led the Tri-Valley Conference in scoring and rebounding as a senior and a junior...named her team MVP in each of the last two seasons...averaged 17.8 points, 9.1 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game in 1999-00...shot 43.7 percent from the field as a senior...had 20 points, six rebounds, three assists and two blocks in the 2000 Colorado Coaches of Girls' Sports All-Star Game...served as a team captain as a senior...rehabilitated an ACL tear suffered in June following her junior season...tallied 14.5 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game as a junior en route to honorable-mention all-state honors...had the best game of her prep career with 28 points and 13 rebounds vs. Skyline High School in the second round of the district championships...lists her most exciting sports experience as beating Sterling High School, the top-ranked team in the state, during her senior year...earned three letters in basketball and cross country...earned all-conference honors in cross country in 1997 and qualified for the state championships twice (1997 and 1998)...also played for the AAU Boulder Rockies...coached by Terri Ward.
Personal: Will earn her bachelor's degree in elementary education in May 2004...plans to attend law school in the fall of 2004...the daughter of Glenn and Joy Albert of Longmont, Colo....has a brother, Blake (19), and a sister, Jami (6)...her father played basketball at the University of Oklahoma...born Jan. 11, 1982 in Edmond, Okla....full name is Jennifer Lynn Albert.
