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  Kara Donnell

Kara Donnell

Player Profile

Class:
RS Junior

Hometown:
Mattoon, Ill.

High School:
Mattoon

Height:
6-1

Position:
C

Birthdate:
07/11/1983

Experience:
2L

2003-04: Received a medical redshirt after suffering a knee injury during the preseason.

2002-03: One of four players to start all 27 games as a sophomore...led the team and ranked second in the Atlantic Sun with 47 blocked shots (1.74 bpg), the second-best single-season total in JU history...finished second on the team and sixth in the A-Sun with a .508 (91-of-179) field-goal percentage...ranked second on the team in scoring (9.2 ppg) and rebounds (6.9 rpg) for the second-straight season...had three double-doubles, recording 11 double-digit scoring games and six double-digit rebounding efforts...led the team in rebounding nine times...scored a season-high 20 points and grabbed seven rebounds at Jacksonville State on Feb. 13...recorded a career-high five blocks and pulled down eight rebounds vs. Gardner-Webb on Jan. 30.

2001-02: Started the first 16 games at center as a freshman, but missed the last 11 games of the season after suffering an injury to her right foot...led all Atlantic Sun Conference freshmen in rebounding (9.9 rpg)...averaged 9.9 rebounds and 9.0 points with five double-doubles, while finishing second on the team with 16 blocked shots...third among Dolphin regulars with a .489 field goal percentage...scored a career-high 24 points at Troy State on Dec. 1...pulled down a career-high 16 rebounds against Savannah State on Dec. 19.

High School: Three-year starter at Mattoon High School for coach George Reed...a two-time Journal Gazette/Times Courier Player of the Year, earning the honor as a junior and senior after setting school records for field goal percentage during her final two prep seasons...as a senior, she shot a school-record 68 percent from the field (188-of-275), breaking the mark of 62 percent she set as a junior...also averaged 13.8 points, 8.6 rebounds and 2.2 blocks...earned honorable-mention all-state, First-Team All-Big 12 and First-Team All-Decatur honors as a senior...also earned Champagne Gazette honorable-mention recognition as a senior and was selected to play in the Decatur Area All-Star and Illinois Basketball Coaches Association All-Star games...as a junior, she averaged 15.0 points, 10.3 rebounds...had 14 double-doubles to go with a team-high 53 steals...also lettered three years in volleyball, earning All-Big 12 honors and earned four letters in softball.

Personal: Born July 11, 1983, in Mattoon, Ill...daughter of Tom and Debbie Donnell...has three brothers: Tim, Britt and Troy...uncle, Rex Morgan, earned All-America honors in basketball at JU before going on to play in the NBA for the Boston Celtics...majoring in education.

 
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