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  • Constance Jinks
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  • Guard - Indiana Fever
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2008 Statistics

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Born: Sep 8, 1981
Height: 5-7 /  1,70
Weight: 142  lbs. / 64,4  kg.
College: Nevada-Las Vegas '03
Years Pro: R








Background


Updated 2008 Fever Player Bios (pdf)

PRO - WNBA
2006: Jinks was invited to training camp with the Phoenix Mercury. 2003: Jinks was a third-round draft pick of the Houston Comets.

PRO - OVERSEAS
2007-08: A teammate of fellow Fever training camp participant Michelle Woods with Israel's Maccabi Tel Kabir, she averaged 26.3 ppg and shot nearly 56 percent from the floor (38-68, .559) in six games…she shot 50 percent from behind the 3-pt arc and shot 68.2 percent from the foul line…she also averaged 5.8 rebounds, 4.7 assists and 1.8 steals per game...in 14 games for PKM Duda PWSZ Leszno in Poland, she averaged 9.6 ppg. 2006-07: In 25 games for Migrosspor in Turkey, she averaged 13.8 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 2.1 apg and 1.9 spg.

COLLEGE
2002-03: Ranked 18th in the country with a scoring average of 20.2 ppg, she was named to the All-Mountain West First Team and was chosen by her teammates as the Lady Rebels' co-MVP…she finished her UNLV career ranked third all-time in scoring with 1,818 career points and ninth all-time in assists with 332…as a senior, she was named Mountain West Conference Player of the Week three times. 2001-02: Jinks led Lady Rebels to their eighth NCAA Tournament appearance...an All-MWC First Team selection, she was named the team's second-leading scorer with 17.0 ppg...she recorded first career double-double with 22 points and a career-high 10 rebounds against No. 15-ranked Colorado State on Feb. 14...she had a team leading 114 assists, averaging 3.68 apg...she scored her 1,000th career point versus Air Force on Jan. 24...Jinks was named co-MVP of the Cox Communications/Lady Rebel Shootout on Nov. 25, and was honored as MWC Player of the Week four times…she scored a game-high 25 points and grabbed six rebounds versus New Mexico on Jan. 6 in a nationally-televised game on ESPN2...Also turned in a career-high and MWC women's tournament record of 36 points against nationally-ranked Colorado State on March 8, and was named to the MWC All-Tournament Team. 2000-01: Jinks was second on the team in scoring and fourth in the MWC with 14.0 ppg…she was named to the All-Mountain West Conference Third Team...she scored the game-winning bucket on an 18-foot jumper with two seconds left in UNLV's win over San Diego State...she was twice chosen the conference's player of the week, and was named MVP of the Roger L. White Invitational...she was also named MVP of the Cox Communications/Lady Rebel Shootout. 1999-00: The first player off the bench for UNLV as a freshman, she saw action in 27 games, including five starts...she was named to the Mountain West All-Newcomer team after finishing third on the team and 14th in the conference in scoring with 11.7 ppg...she steadily improved over the course of the season and came on strong toward the year's end, scoring in double figures in 12 of the last 17 games...she had a string of three straight games in which she topped the 20-point mark (Valparaiso, BYU and Utah)...she led the team in scoring in four different games, including a season high 21 points in the win over Valparaiso...she scored the team's most exciting basket of the year, hitting the game-winning bucket on a driving lay-up in the final seconds of the game in a MWC Tournament victory over New Mexico.


Personal

Constance K. Jinks is the daughter of Karen Jinks and the late James Lanier...she has two brothers, James and Corey, and one sister, Jasmine...she was a kinesiology major with an emphasis in fitness and sport management at UNLV…a 1999 graduate of Chicago's Morgan Park High School, she led the team to its conference's championship all four years...in her last three years at Morgan Park, the team finished second in the city...during her senior season, the team posted a mark of 30-3, as she averaged 23 ppg, 9.0 rpg, 8.0 apg and 5.0 steals per game...named third team all-state, all-city, all-conference and a high school All-American, she was rated No. 29 among USA Today's top 50 players in the country...she was named MVP of the Chicago Public Schools Christmas Tournament during her senior season.

Career Transactions
created:5/13/2008 6:22:08 AM
Thursday
Aug. 28
WNBA Season Resumes
Thursday
Aug. 28
Sun at Fever, 7 p.m. ET
Silver Stars at Mercury, 10 p.m. ET
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Friday
Aug. 29
Liberty at Shock, 7:30 p.m. ET
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