Lindsey Yamasaki

Yamasaki was born in Oregon City, Oregon, to Syd and Kriss Yamasaki. She has a sister named Britt, and a brother named Kobi. Lindsey attended Oregon City High School, where she led the women's basketball team to four Oregon state championships and finished #1 in the USA Today national rankings for three years. She was one of the most sought-after recruits for college basketball when she graduated in 1998 and was named the most highly recruited female athlete of 1998.^[1] Yamasaki was named a WBCA All-American.^[2] She participated in the WBCA High School All-America Game, where she scored sixteen points, and earned MVP honors.^[2][3]

On full scholarship at Stanford University, Yamasaki led the team to the Pac-10 regular season championship in her senior season, 2001–2002. Her Stanford women's basketball teams made the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball tournaments every year, but never won more than two games in the tournament. Yamasaki's 4-year statistics at Stanford were 13.9 points per game, 44.3% field goal percentage, 38.9% 3-point field goal percentage.^[4]

During the 2002 WNBA draft, the 6-foot-2-inch Yamasaki was the 13th pick in the 2nd round (29th overall) to the now-defunct Miami Sol, averaging 3.5 points per game in 15 games in 2002.^[5] In 2003, she played 24 games for the New York Liberty averaging 0.7 points. She also played in the National Women's Basketball League for the San Jose Spiders, in the Turkish Women's Basketbol League for Ceyhan Belediyespor and Botas Spor, as well as for the San Antonio Silver Stars where she tore her right Achilles in June 2005. In 2006, she trained with the Seattle Storm in pre-season and was released by the team in May 2006, after which she decided to retire.

In 2008, Yamasaki was named as the first head coach of the first ever women's basketball team at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.^[6]