10  Amber Gray Class: Freshman Hometown: West Chester, Ohio High School: Lakota West H.S. Height: 6-1 Position: Forward/Center

HIGH SCHOOL: Earned four varsity letters in basketball and spent three years as captain of her squad at Lakota West High School (Ohio)...Totaled 1,931 points, 925 rebounds, 230 assists, 197 steals and 130 blocked shots in her high school career...Named to the 2008 USA Today All-USA Third Team...2008 McDonald's All-American...2008 Parade Magazine All-American...Celebrated victory with the Red Team in the 2008 Women's Basketball Coaches Association High School All-America Game...Member of the 2008 EA Sports All-America First Team...2008 Slam Magazine All-America Third Team selection...All-Southwest Ohio Player of the Year in both 2007 and 2008...A first-team all-state selection in 2007, Gray led her squad to a 23-3 record and the league and district championships during her junior campaign...Cincinnati Enquirer Player of the Year both 2006 and 2007...Member of the all-city first team in 2005, 2006, and 2007...Named first team all-league and league player of the year every season since 2004 in the Greater Miami Conference...Also enjoys volleyball, a sport in which she lettered three times (2005, 2006, and 2007)...Helped claim the league and district titles in volleyball in 2005 with a 20-6 overall record...The 6-1 multi-sport athlete garnered first-team all-league and honorable mention all-state volleyball honors in 2006.

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL: Participated in the 2008 USA Women's U18 National Team Trials...Played for the 5-0 USA White Team and earned a gold medal at the 2007 USA Basketball Youth Development Festival...Selected to play in the 2007 Olympic Festival... Played with the AAU squad Cincinnati Finest.

PERSONAL: Amber is currently enrolled in the College of Arts & Sciences, but wants to study sports management and communications...Achieved the high honor roll in high school, participated in peer counseling and was a Firebird Link Leader...Lists Tim Duncan as the player after whom she has modeled herself...Wants to be a coach at the collegiate level someday...Lists Oprah Winfrey and Martin Luther King, Jr. as celebrities she admires...Has two siblings, Alanna, 6, and Chanee, 3...Amberly Tierra Gray was born March 2, 1990, in Cincinnati, Ohio...Her parents are Carlton Gray and Tonya Carter.

High School Career Stats

Games: 101
Points: 1,931
Game High Points: 41
Scoring Average: 18.7
Rebounds: 925
Game High Rebounds: 19
Rebound Average: 7.9
Game High Steals: 7
Game High Blocks: 6
Game-High Assists: 10