Kate Gaze
10/9/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
Senior (2013-14): Earned All-WCC honorable mention status... Like both of her senior teammates, Gaze recorded a double-double in the season opening win against Washington... Gaze scored 17 points with a career-high 10 assists... she added seven rebounds and hit 3-for-5 from behind the arc... scored 10 points at Butler, going 10-for-12 from the free-throw line, including two free-throws in the closing seconds to force OT, a game the Gaels would go on to win... had a big weekend against UCSB and Cal Poly... scored a career-high 26 points against UCSB, then followed that up with 21 points against CP, including a career-high eight rebounds... earned a spot on the SMC Hilton Concord All-Classic team, including a near triple-double against Alabama... Gaze recorded 12 points with a career-high 12 assists and eight rebounds against the Crimson Tide... recorded 11 assists with seven points at CSUS, scoring her 1,000th career point in the process... scored 22 points in a win at USC... scored 20 points in a 78-74 win over LMU... dished out seven assists at Pacific, giving her an even 100 for the year in game No. 20.... scored a team-high 15 points in the win over Brigham Young... appeared in her 125th career game against Pacific in February, a school record.
Summer of 2013: Gaze earned a World University Games tryout (in Australia) and earned a reserve spot on the Australian National Team... played with the Emerging Opals squad as the team played nine games in 12 days in China... Gaze scored in double figures in more than half of those games.
Redshirt Junior (2012-13): One of the Gaels top three-point and free-throw shooters... scored 17 points against Butler, making all three attempts from behind the arc... got injured in the 5th game of the year against Chattanooga, playing in just 10 minutes of the game... returned to action in the ninth game of the year at the St. John's Tournament... scored 15 points in the win over Tennessee Tech, including four three-pointers... scored 14 points in a win over George Washington, connecting on three, three-pointers... scored 13 points with four assists in a road win in overtime at LMU... scored 12 points, including 7-for-8 free-throws in SMC's win over Gonzaga in January
Junior (2011-12): Season cut short due to injury on December 4... earned a redshirt season and will be a redshirt junior in (2012-13)... named to the SMC Hilton Concord All-Tournament team after helping the Gaels to the championship game... in the two tournament games, Gaze scored 28 points with nine rebounds and 13 assists, whooging 9-for-19 from the field, inclduing 8-for-14 from three-point range... in just 15 minutes of action against William Jessup, Gaze scored 10 points with four assists... played 28 minutes in a win over Cal Poly on December 4.
Sophomore (2010-11): Has scored at least 10 points in 18 different games... has hit multiple three pointers in 15 games... shooting 86 percent from the free-throw line which leads the team... led the WCC in three-point accuracy and finished fourth in three pointers per game... had two games with at least five three pointers made... scored 18 points against Washington State, Nebraska and Pacific, before notching a career-high 24 points in a win over Idaho... grabbed a season-high seven rebounds at Santa Clara... dished out a season high five assists against Loyola Marymount and San Francisco... scored 14 points in the WCC tournament semifinal win over San Diego.
Freshman (2009-10): Played in all 31 regular season games with 22 starts as a true freshman, averaging 15.8 minutes per game...named to the WCC All-Freshman team... finished the regular season averaging 4.4 points, 1.4 assists, and 1.6 rebounds per game...made her collegiate debut as a starter against Idaho State (11/13/09) finishing with six points, three assists, two rebounds, and one steal in a career-high 27 minutes of play...recorded a career-high 15 points against Santa Clara (1/10/10)...knocked down a career-high five field goals against San Francisco (1/8/10)...grabbed a season-high seven rebounds in the WCC semifinal game against Pepperdine... dished out a career-high four assists against Bakersfield (12/16/09), Nebraska (11/28/09), and Drake (11/27/09)...shot 90 percent from the free throw line, going 27-30 on the year, the second highest single-season percentage in SMC history.
High School: Comes to Saint Mary's from the Australian Institute of Sport where she played for three seasons ... was a member of the Under-19 Australian Team in 2007... participated in the U19 World Championships in Slovakia in 2007, finishing 5th ... niece of Australian basketball great, Andrew Gaze.
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