Highlights from the women's basketball game between Army and Manhattan.
NOTES: Looking to continue momentum after a breakout freshman season during which she made an immediate impact ... rangy player with long-distance shooting capability ... saw playing time gradually increase as season went on.
2010-11 (FRESHMAN): Played more than any other rookie on the roster ... averaged just under 15 minutes a game, 2.9 points and 2.6 rebounds per contest ... scored in 16 of 25 games played ... one of the team's top free throw shooters at nearly 79 percent (15-of-19) ... played in all but four games and earned a spot in the starting lineup three times during Patriot League action ... scored a career-high 11 points in a breakout game during Army's 55-54 home win over Colgate (Feb. 5) ... added a career-high seven rebounds in her best outing as a Black Knight ... scored in six of her final eight games ... started the Black Knights' final contest of the season - a Patriot League quarterfinal loss at Bucknell (March 5).
BACKGROUND: Highly touted recruit and one of the top players out of Utah last year ... versatile swing player ... two-time first team all-state performer ... lettered four years ... captained Syracuse High School to a 5A state championship in 2010 ... most valuable player honors at the state tournament ... averaged 17.9 points a game, while scoring 933 in her career ... holds Syracuse's single-game scoring record with 36 points ... named the area MVP in 2010 ... garnered all-area plaudits three years in a row ... lettered two years as a goalie on Syracuse's soccer team.
PERSONAL: Jennifer Nichole Hazlett ... daughter of Patrick and Jana Hazlett ... father is an Air Force reservist and has reached the rank of master sergeant ... spent majority of the summer at Camp Buckner (West Point, N.Y.) training with explosives for a month ... company D-2 ... major is Chinese.
