Kayte Christensen, Basketball Player, - Biography,
USA Basketball player.
Height
6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Weight 170 lb (77 kg)
Born November 16, 1980, Lakeview, Oregon
A
pic of her
Kayte Lauren Christensen is a American professional basketball
player who has competed internationally & for a short while played for the
Phoenix Mercury in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Kayte
grew up on her family's ranch in the Modoc County sawmill ghost town of Ivy in
Jess Valley, a dozen miles east of Likely, California. Their home was next door
to her grandmother's, with the historic 1922 post office of Ivy, California between
them, serving as a glorified shed. The ghost town came to life with sports action
for a few years as Kayte played one-on-one, & occasionally two-on-two, against
her Dad, Randy, & older sisters at the hoop that he set up for them at the
end of the driveway.
Those who appreciate Kayte's aggressive basketball style
can thank those years when she, as the youngest of a whole family of proverbial
beanpoles, & with the latest growth spurt of the whole bunch, played basketball
& learned to compete against them. In particular, the middle sister of the
three had the earliest growth spurt, & for a time, although she was only a
year or two older, she had legs up where Kayte had shoulders, & gave words
like lanky & gangling a whole new meaning.
She attended South Fork Elementary
School in Likely, & she & her sisters were a source of entertainment there,
whether playing basketball at school, or playing cops & robbers around the
historic buildings - many of them complete with 19th-century-style raised wooden
sidewalks - & all over Likely after school, while waiting for Dad to pick
them up on his way home from work for UPS. Once Kayte graduated from South Fork,
her family moved into town to be closer to the high school, & to her grandmother,
Elsie Cantrall, who was in a care home by this time. Jess Valley & Likely
never were quite the same without them.
Kayte attended Modoc High School in
Alturas, California, graduating in 1998. That year, her varsity girls basketball
team won the California Interscholastic Federation State Division V Championship.
The MHS girls had been in the running for several years before that, thanks to
Kayte & her older sisters. In her spare time, she also tutored younger girls
at basketball.
Kayte attended college at UC Santa Barbara University &
attended the same classes as fellow WNBA player Lindsay Taylor. She was Santa
Barbara's all-time career field goal leader. She also ranks among the top ten
in rebounds & blocked shots.
In her four seasons in the WNBA, Christensen
holds career averages of 3.8 points, 2.9 rebounds & 0.75 steals. Christensen
was selected by Phoenix Mercury in the third round (40th overall) of the 2002
WNBA Draft.
She would later sign with the Houston Comets on March 24, 2006,
& waived until May 19 when she failed to make the regular-season roster. She
has since rejoined the Mercury.
· Big West Conference Player of the
Year (2002)
· All-Big West First Team (2001-2002)
· Big
Women All-Freshman Team (1999)
· Holds school record in career field-goal
percentage at 549 points
" The support from our fans today is unbelievable.
It's awesome that they're here. It's a great way to start the season. "
She looks like a woman in a California School drama,
· Enjoys playing
beach volleyball, hiking & camping
· Her favorite TV shows are
Golden Girls & Friends
· Wears a size 12(US)/44(EUR) shoe.
This site was written in February 2007
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