Lyndsey Medders

Position:
Guard
Height:
5-9
Class:
Junior
High School:
Harvard Westlake/Oak Park
Hometown:
Los Angeles, Calif.

Awards & Honors

22^nd Pick in the 2007 WNBA Draft by Indiana

Associated Press All-America Honorable Mention (2007)

WBCA/Kodak All-America Finalist (2007)

All-Big 12 (2006, 2007)
Big 12 Medal of Honor (2006, 2007)
WBNS All-America, third team (2006)
WBNS Preseason All-America (2006)

Senior CLASS Award Candidate (2007)
ESPN the Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-District, second team (2006, 2007)
Big 12 All-Tournament Team (2007)

Big 12 Player of the Week (Dec. 5, 2005; Jan. 15, 2007)
Cyclone Classic All-Tournament Team (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Cyclone Classic MVP (2006, 2007)
Big 12 Rookie of the Week (Dec. 8, 2003)
Academic All-Big 12, first team (2005, 2006, 2007)
Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Roll (F03, S04, F04, S05, S06, F06, S07)
ISU Scholar-Athlete (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
Dean’s List (F03, S04, F04, F06)
ISU Free Throw Award (2006)

Naismith Trophy preseason candidate (2007)

Women’s John R. Wooden Award Preseason All-America Team (2007)

Named one of the nation’s top five point guards by ESPN.com (2007)

Senior (2006-07)

Rewrote ISU’s career assist record (719) and finished her career ranking fourth all-time in Big 12 history ... wrapped up career ranking seventh on ISU career scoring chart (1,449) ... ranked sixth nationally in assists per game with 6.5 ... was taken by the Indiana Fever with the 22nd pick in the 2007 Women’s National Basketball League Draft ... turned in double-double with 12 points and 10 assists (third of the season) in win over Washington in NCAA first round ... had 11 points and nine dimes vs. Georgia in NCAA second round ... scored a season-high 27 points, including hitting the game-tying three-pointer with 1.7 seconds left to send the game into overtime against Nebraska in the Big 12 Tourney semifinals ... led ISU with 17 points in Big 12 title game vs. Oklahoma ... was named Cyclone Classic MVP when she scored 21 points and nine assists, claiming the ISU career assist record and moving into the ISU scoring top 10, in the championship game against Loyola Marymount ... came close to a triple-double in three games, including posting 13 points, nine rebounds and eight assists on Senior Night against Nebraska ... sparked ISU with 23 points, five rebounds and six assists in win over Texas ... passed out 10 assists vs. Kansas State and seven vs. Texas A&M ... named to Pepperdine All-Tourney Team after leading all scorers with 23 points, seven assists and seven rebounds vs. Virginia Tech ... after scoring just four points in the first half, came back to lead all scorers with 21 for the game to go with eight assists in the win over Iowa ... had 24 points and passed out six assists in season opener vs. Cal State Fullerton ... turned in second double-double with 18 points and 11 assists vs. Illinois State ... dished out 10 assists in first half vs. Saint Louis ... missed games at Nebraska and Baylor due to a minor concussion.

Junior (2005-06)
Led NCAA Division I in assists per game with 7.7 ... became the 17th Cyclone to join the 1,000-point club, finishing the season with 1,028 ... ranked second in the Big 12 in free throw percentage (.877) and eighth in scoring (16.5 ppg) ... set school record with 16 assists against IPFW, adding 12 points to earn Cyclone Classic MVP honors ... sat out three games (at Nebraska, at Kansas, vs. Missouri) with a foot sprain ... missed most of the Texas game with back spasms ... posted six points/assists double-doubles and owns eight in her career ... led ISU with 16 points in 26 minutes vs. Marquette ... recorded 15 points and 12 assists against Oklahoma in the Big 12 Championship ... led ISU with 22 points at Kansas, hitting four treys ... returned from a three-game absence to post 26 points at Kansas State, adding seven assists ... poured in 30 points against Kansas State, sinking 9-of-13 shots, while adding eight assists ... led all scorers with 29 points against Baylor, having a career night at the free-throw line (12-of-13) ... had 15 points and 14 assists at Colorado, committing just one turnover in 40 minutes ... lit up Nebraska for 31 points, draining a career-best five three-pointers, while adding seven assists and two rebounds ...had 18 points and six rebounds at Oklahoma State ... had 13 points and 11 assists while collecting a team-best eight rebounds at Minnesota ... led ISU with 24 points against Northern Iowa ... had 13 assists in 26 minutes against Akron ... played all 40 minutes against Iowa, dishing 14 assists while scoring 20 points ... poured in a career-best 32 points (11-of-21) at Drake, matching the ninth-best single-game performance in ISU history ... set Junkanoo Jam records with 13 assists against North Florida, and 21 for the tournament ... scored a game-high 22 points in the season opener against IUPUI, adding seven rebounds and seven assists ... her 180 dimes rank fourth on the ISU single-season chart.

Sophomore (2004-05)
Recorded 13 assists twice, which ranks sixth on ISU’s single-game chart ... hit the game-winning three-pointer with .02 seconds left to beat Colorado in the Big 12 Tournament, finishing with nine points ... recorded 14 points and 10 rebounds against Texas A&M, her third career double-double ... poured in a career-high 24 points at Baylor, adding seven assists with no turnovers ... matched her season high with 13 assists and no turnovers against Oklahoma State, adding nine points ... poured in 19 points against Texas, adding five assists and two steals ... had 13 points and seven assists at Oklahoma ... posted 14 points, hitting all three three-point attempts against Nebraska ... had 12 points and eight rebounds, hitting 5-of-8 shots against No. 20 KSU ... posted her first collegiate double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds against Eastern Illinois ... had 13 points and 13 assists the next night against Murray State, earning Cyclone Classic all-tournament honors ... scored 10 points vs. Eastern Kentucky and 12 against UNLV, sinking two treys in each game of the Duel in the Desert ... had eight points and eight assists vs. Wisconsin ... tallied 12 points off the bench at Iowa ... hit all three long range tries en route to 16 points in 20 minutes against IPFW while dishing seven assists ... collected six rebounds and three steals against Northern Colorado.

Freshman (2003-04)
Broke the Iowa State freshman assist record (108) ... missed the regular-season opener after suffering an ankle sprain in practice the previous night ... missed the Texas Tech contest due to illness ... got her first collegiate start vs. Indiana ... started 21 games ... was a difference-maker in the WNIT quarterfinal game, scoring 19 points, grabbing four rebounds and dishing four assists in the win over Saint Joseph’s ... had 14 points and five assists against Miami in the WNIT second round ... drained all four of her three-point attempts vs. Kansas, finishing with 13 points ... had 20 points, hitting 6-of-8 shots and all four three-point tries, against No. 15 Oklahoma ... scored 15 points in the Big 12 Tournament first-round win over Nebraska and drained both three-point tries en route to 12 points against No. 2/2 Texas in the quarterfinals ... sank three treys, all in the first half, en route to 12 points against No. 18 Baylor ... hit a pair of triples en route to 11 points and four assists vs. Nebraska ... had six points and three rebounds at Texas A&M, hitting a clutch three-pointer in the final minute to put the game away ... poured in 19 points vs. No. 24 Virginia Tech in her collegiate debut ... added five assists and three rebounds ... set then-career highs with 21 points, including seven-of-eight free throws, and nine assists against Iowa ... recorded 15 points at Wisconsin, shooting 6-of-8 from the floor and making her only three-pointer ... earned Big 12 Conference Rookie of the Week honors for her performance vs. Iowa and Wisconsin.

High School
Attended the Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood her first three seasons before transferring to Oak Park as a senior ... started every game of her career ... led HW to a 70-24 three-year record, earning two Mission League championships and a CIF Southern Section Division III-AA title ... sat out part of her senior season due to transferring, playing in 12 games for Oak Park ... averaged 22.9 points, 8.6 rebounds, 9.2 assists and 4.1 steals as a senior ... ranked fourth in Los Angeles as a junior, shooting 42.5 percent from behind the arc ... averaged 17.2 points, 5.5 assists and 3.7 steals as a junior and 12.1 points, 4.7 assists and 3.2 steals as a sophomore ... posted 9.2 ppg, 3.8 apg and 3.5 spg her freshman year ... four-time all-league and three-time all-section honoree ... league MVP as a junior ... earned Daily News honors three years ... Los Angeles Times and Thousand Oaks Star first-team pick ... Student Sports Magazine named her to its L.A. area second team ... earned nine all-tournament awards and three tournament MVP honors in her career ... a McDonald’s high school All-American nominee ... attended the Adidas All-American camp three years, working as a counselor in 2003 ... named to the top 10 upper-class all-stars at the 2002 Adidas camp ... one of 24 selected to play in L’Adidas All-American Roundball game ... Street & Smith’s honorable mention All-American ... rated No. 11 among point guards nationally on All-Star Girls Report and No. 52 overall ... ranked No. 77 by Blue Star Report ... team captain and MVP her junior and senior years ... had 22 points for the victorious South team and won the three-point contest in the Ventura County All-Star game ... named top 20 All-American at 2003 NCAA Final Four’s national all-star game ... coached by former NBA player Brian Taylor in ninth grade ... coached by Melissa Hearlihy as a sophomore and junior ... coached by Lindsay Strothers at Oak Park ... earned Humanitas Society membership for her community outreach efforts as a junior by Harvard-Westlake ... led 2003 Oregon Triple Threat Grad team to two titles.

Personal
Graduated with a degree in sport management ... full name is Lyndsey Marie Medders ... born July 17, 1985, in Santa Monica, Calif. ... parents are Mardy and John Medders ... has two brothers (Bryan, Brett) and one sister (Emily) ... trained with Wayne Slappy and Lindsay Strothers ... earned ISU’s Academic Recognition Award, an academic scholarship for out-of-state students.