The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Hall of Honor
- Induction:
- 2023
- Class:
- 2006
A story of perseverance, Jamie Carey was a two-time All-Big 12 selection, and despite playing in just 96 career games during her UT career, Carey’s name is found throughout the Texas all-time record book. The 1999 Miss Colorado Basketball was the 2000 Pac-10 Conference Freshman of the Year at Stanford University before concussions sidelined her for the next two seasons. Carey came to Texas and achieved significant accomplishments as she helped lead Texas to the Final Four in 2003. She is a member of Texas’ 1,000-point scoring club and still ranks 43rd in program history with 1,074 career points. Carey was a finalist for numerous national awards during her time in Austin, including the Margaret Wade Trophy, the Naismith Award and the Nancy Lieberman National Point Guard of the Year. She was the recipient of the 2004 Jim Valvano Comeback Player of the Year Award, and as a senior in 2005, was named an NCAA Woman of the Year nominee and earned the Big 12’s Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholarship. Carey is the Longhorns’ all-time leader in three-point field goal percentage (.418) and ranks second all-time in minutes per game (31.4). Carey’s 193 made three-pointers ranks fifth all-time in school history, while her free-throw percentage of .801 is eighth all-time. She is the namesake of the Jamie Carey Comeback Award, given annually by UT Athletics to a student-athlete who has experienced and worked to overcome adversity during her intercollegiate athletics experience. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from Texas in 2004 and completed her master’s of education in sport management on the Forty Acres in 2006. She was a two-time third-team College Sports Communicators Academic All-America selection and two-time first-team All-District selection. Following her collegiate career, Carey was the 31st pick in the 2005 WNBA draft by the Phoenix Mercury and later signed with the Connecticut Sun. She played four years for the Sun, which advanced to the postseason each of those seasons, including an appearance in the 2005 WNBA Finals. Carey returned to Austin in 2016-18 as an assistant coach and was promoted to associate head coach from 2018-20. During her time coaching, the Longhorns compiled a 95-37 record with three NCAA Tournament appearances, including a pair of trips to the Sweet 16. Prior to coming back to Texas, Carey worked with USA Basketball at all levels of the women’s national team program as the assistant women’s national team director for four years. In 2019, Carey was inducted into the Horizon (Colo.) High School Hall of Fame and in 2020 she was inducted into the Colorado High School Activities Association Hall of Fame.
