Matee Ajavon

(As of May 20, 2007)

USA Basketball Notes:

• Gold Medal: 2003 USA Youth Development Festival.
• Named to the 2007 USA Pan American Games Team on July 9, 2007.
• A 2004 USA Junior National Team Trials participant.
• Member of the 2003 USA Youth Development Festival East Team that compiled a perfect 5-0 record and claimed the gold medal.
• Shot a Festival record 60.0 percent (6-10 3pt FGs) from
  3-point.
• Posted Festival bests of 11 points and five rebounds versus the North and four assists versus the West.

College Honors

• Named Associated Press 2007 All-America honorable mention.
• Earned 2007 NCAA Tournament All-Final Four honors,
  averaged 12.0 ppg. and 2.5 apg. in the Final Four.
• Named the 2007 NCAA Tournament Greensboro Region MOP, averaged 16.8 ppg. and 4.3 apg. in four contests to lead Rutgers to the Final Four.
• Named to the 2007 All-Big East Conference second team.
• Selected to the 2007 Big East All-Tournament Team.
• A 2006 All-Big East Conference first team and 2005 All-Big East second team selection.
• Earned 2005 NCAA All-Philadelphia Region Team honors.
• Selected to the 2005 Big East All-Tournament Team.
• Named the 2005 Big East Freshman of the Year and Big East All-Freshman Team.
• Named 2005 and 2006 All-Metropolitan Basketball Writers first team.
• Named Big East Rookie of the Week four times in 2004-05.
• Earned all-tournament team honors at the 2004 Paradise Jam.

College Notes

• Aided Rutgers in 2006-07 to a 27-9 record, the Big East Tournament title and the 2007 NCAA title game; started 28 of 32 games played and averaged a team fourth-best 12.0 ppg. and contributed a team-high 121 assists.
• Averaged 12.6 ppg., as well as team highs of 4.5 apg. and 2.6 spg. as Rutgers finished the 2005-06 season with a 27-5 record, advanced to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen and earned a 16-0 league record for the Big East regular season title.
• As a freshman in 2004-05, aided the Scarlet Knights to a 28-7 record, including 14-2 in the Big East for the conference regular season crown, and the NCAA Elite Eight; averaged a team second best 12.4 ppg., while adding team-highs of 3.5 apg. and 2.2 spg.
• Hit Rutgers' 2007 NCAA Tournament single-game highs of 20 points on three different occassions.

High School Notes

• Attended Malcom X Shabazz High School (N.J.), where she led her squad to a pair of New Jersey Tournament of Championship titles in 2003 and 2004, becoming the first team in history to do so.
• Named a 2004 WBCA, Parade Magazine (second team) and USA Today All-American.
• Named the 2004 Essex County Player of the Year and was a three-time Associated Press all-state selection.

Personal Notes

• Born in Monrovia, Liberia, resides in Irvington, New Jersey.
• Daughter of Patience Wilson and Sameul Ajavon, has one brother, Shawn, and two sisters, Samma and Kardy Goe.
• Was a four-sport athlete in high school, also competed in
  volleyball, golf and track and field.
• Favorite takeout food: Chinese.
• Favorite meal to make at home: cheddar and broccoli rice with baked chicken.
• If I could be a standout athlete in any sport it would be: tennis.
• When I was five I wanted to be: my mother.
• At my bedside is: a basketball.
• Favorite magazine: ESPN The Magazine.
• Always in my fridge: ice cream.
• Always on my fridge: cereal.
• Most prized possession: my phone.
• Favorite sport aside from basketball: golf, tennis and swimming (even though I can't swim).
• I can play: an invisible flute.
• Favorite basketball player: Allen Iverson, Steve Nash, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and Cappie Pondexter.
• Favorite non-basketball Olympian: Michael Johnson.
• Best game I ever watched: Rutgers vs. Duke.
• Best player I ever faced: Cappie Pondexter.
• I want to go one-on-one against: C. Vivian Stringer.
• Favorite basketball announcer: Dick Vitale.
• When not playing hoops: I am sleeping.
• Most people don't know: I am a clown all the time.
• Most interesting place ever visited: McDonald's House.
• If I were stranded on an island: I'd call Tom Hanks for advice.