2006 WNBA Season:
Backup point guard played in a career-high 24 games… Scored a career-high 13 points on 5-of-6 shooting at Chicago (8/8)…Had a career-high three made three-pointers against the Sky…Had a career-high four assists twice…Collected a career-high four rebounds against Los Angeles (8/3)…Played in the final 12 games of the season, averaging just under 16 minutes per game… Made 9 of 16 (56.2 percent) shots from the field, including 6 of 11 (54.5 percent) threes in the last five games of the season. In The Playoffs: Appeared in all five posteseason games, averaging 5.8 minutes… Scored three points in Game 2 win vs. Detroit in Eastern Conference Finals.

2005 WNBA Season:
Originally drafted by Phoenix in the third round (31st overall) of the 2005 WNBA Draft….Earned a spot as the third point guard on the Sun after collecting four assists in 15 total minutes of play during preseason games at Houston (5/12) and Minnesota (5/14)…Missed eight games after being placed on injured reserve with a stress fracture of the left fibula…Returned to play three minutes in win at Minnesota (7/17)… Was a combined 3-of-6 from the field in the last two games of the season for Connecticut…Scored a season-high five points against Washington (8/26)…Played a season-high 15 minutes at Charlotte (8/27). In the Playoffs: Made her WNBA postseason debut in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals at Indiana (9/8), playing 14 minutes…Played extensive minutes after starter Lindsay Whalen went down with an injury in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Finals…Had a career-high four assists in Game 2 of the WNBA Finals against Sacramento (9/15)...Made first postseason 3-pointer in the same game, playing a career-high 21 minutes.

College:
Named to the All-Big 12 First Team in 2005 and 2004…Ranks sixth in Texas all-time history in 3-pointers made with 57…Named to the NCAA West Regional All-Tournament Team in 2004…Named to the ESPN The Magazine 2005 All Academic All-America women’s basketball team…Recipient of the 2004 Jimmy V Foundation “Comeback Award,” given to a collegiate basketball player who triumphs over adversity… Was one of 24 student athletes selected by the Big-12 Conference to receive a 2004-05 Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarship…Scored in double figures in 17 of the 30 games played at Texas…Missed the 2000-01 and 2001-02 seasons with injuries due to post-concussive symptoms… Transferred from Stanford to Texas after officially retiring from collegiate basketball in November 2001…Set Stanford’s single-season record for 3-pointers made with 81 during her freshman year… Named Pac-10 Freshman of the Year.

Other Professional Experience:
Played with the Colorado Chill of the NWBL during the 2005-06 offseason.

Personal:
Full name is Jamie Leigh Carey… Daughter of Mike and Debbie Carey…Born in Hutchinson, Kansas…Majored in sociology… Received the 2004-05 NCAA State of Texas Woman of the Year Award, which recognizes one female student athlete in each state…Received her master’s degree in sports management in May 2006…Captain of the USA’s 2003 silver-medal winning Pan Am Games team…Made the All-Big 12 Academic First Team in 2004…In high school, was named the 1999 National Player of the Year by Gatorade…Named to the 1999 All-USA Today first team…Selected to the 1999 All-America first team by Parade Magazine, Phoenix/WBCA and Street & Smith’s…Played on the Philadelphia Belles squad that competed in Paris in 1998.

Selected by Phoenix in third round (31st overall) of the WNBA Draft, April 16, 2005...Signed by the Sun as a free agent on May 9, 2005.