22 - Amanda Leigh
Amanda Leigh
Height: 5-9
Year: R-Sr.
Hometown: Charlotte, N.C.
High School: Sun Valley
Position: G

Amanda Leigh

Redshirt junior season (2009-10)
Played in 29 games with 25 starts … second on the team in scoring with 10.6 points per game and third on the team in rebounding at 3.6 per contest … led the team in scoring in nine games … was named the Southern Conference Player of the Week on March 2 after averaging 20.0 points and 8.5 rebounds per game in a pair of UNCG wins … scored a career-high 28 points and had a career-best 10 rebounds at Elon on Feb. 27 for her first career double-double … hit a career-best six 3-pointers in the contest … scored at least 20 in consecutive games from Jan. 8-11 … had 21 at Wofford and followed that up with 20 vs. Western Carolina … moved into UNCG’s career top 10 in 3-pointers and 3-point attempts on the season, finishing the year sixth with 112 and fourth with 379, respectively, after just two seasons in a Spartans uniform … her 67 3s and 205 3-point attempts on the season were both the second-most in a single season in school history … her 2.3 made 3s per game ranked third in the SoCon … had a streak of five straight games in double figures from Jan. 8-19 … hit at least one 3-pointer in 25 of her 29 games played … finished the season with a streak of 10 straight games with at least one 3 … matched her career high with five assists at Bowling Green on Nov. 27 … matched her career high with four steals at Appalachian State on Feb. 20 … earned the team’s Most Improved award … member of the Dean’s List for the spring semester.

Redshirt sophomore season (2008-09)
Played in all 31 games in her first season of action for the Spartans, starting 26 … averaged 7.5 points and 3.6 rebounds per game … led the squad with 45 3-pointers on the season, the eighth-best single-season effort in school history at the time … hit at least one 3 in 24 games, including a streak of 10 games in a row in November and December … was third on the squad with 48 assists (1.5 per game) … scored 11 points and had seven rebounds off the bench at Virginia Tech on Nov. 14 in her UNCG debut … scored in double figures nine times, including a pair of career-high 18-point performances … notched 18 for the first time against Georgia Southern on Dec. 17, scoring 15 points after halftime … hit 18 for the second time against Furman on Jan. 10, draining five 3-pointers, including one with 25.2 seconds left to draw the Spartans within one and another with 1.8 seconds left to tie it and force overtime … was second on the team in free throw percentage on the year with a 77.5 percent conversion rate (31-for-40) … was the final Spartan to hit the 100-rebound threshold on the season, giving UNCG five players with at least 100 boards for the first time since the 2005-06 season … finished third on the team with 16 blocked shots and had three games with two … set her career best with four steals against Elon on Dec. 2, then matched it in the rematch against the Phoenix on Feb. 27 … had a career-high five assists in a 74-69 win over High Point on Nov. 24.

Sophomore season (2007-08)
Sat out during the 2007-08 season due to NCAA transfer regulations, using her redshirt season in the process … earned a spot on the Dean’s List in the fall semester.

Freshman season at Winthrop University (2006-07)
Saw action in 26 games and started two … averaged 2.2 points and 1.0 rebounds in 9.4 minutes per game … had her best game of the season against Birmingham-Southern, going 3-of-4 from the floor and 2-of-3 from behind the 3-point arc … tallied a career-high eight points against Birmingham-Southern and tallied a season-high five rebounds against Charlotte … was a perfect 4-for-4 from the free throw line for the season.

High school
Earned four varsity letters at guard for head coach Ryan Cook at Sun Valley HS … graduated as Sun Valley’s all-time leading scorer with more than 1,000 career points scored and as the all-time leader for 3-point field goals made … also holds the record for most points scored in a season … two-time All- South Piedmont 3A Conference selection … earned conference player of the year honors in 2005 and 2006 … high school team was conference champion during the 2005-06 season … two-time Union County Player of the Year… second team all-state selection  … played in the East-West All-Star Game.

Personal
Amanda Rae Leigh … born Oct. 7, 1987, in Charlotte, N.C. … daughter of Derek Leigh and Angela Carver … has six younger siblings, Ashleigh Harris, Justin Carver, Zachary Carver, Jessey Leigh, Cory Carver and Kody Leigh … majoring in kinesiology with a concentration in sports medicine.