Jamie Craighead Title: Head Coach Experience: Second Season Alma Mater: Oregon, '02 Email: jlcraigh@saclink.csus.edu Bio:     Jamie Craighead was promoted to head women’s basketball coach on May 1, 2009. At age 29, she is the youngest Division I women’s basketball coach in the country,     Craighead spent the 2007-08 season as the team’s top assistant, before being promoted to associate head coach by former head coach Dan Muscatell in the summer of 2008. Coordinating the Hornets’ offense and working with the team’s perimeter players, Craighead helped lead the team to a 7-9 Big Sky Conference record in 2008-09, the best mark in program history.    During her two years directing the Sacramento State offense, Craighead has helped develop seniors Charday Hunt and Erika Edwards into arguably the conference’s top 1-2 scoring punch. Hunt ranked third in the conference in scoring (14.3 ppg) and raised her averages across the board in conference play, including increasing her scoring average (15.2 ppg). She earned second team all-Big Sky accolades, the highest of any Hornet since the 2005-06 season.     Edwards averaged 11.1 points and 8.2 rebounds per game during conference play, and led the conference with 13 double-digit rebounding performances.     The entire pace of the game will change during the 2009-10 season, as the Hornets will be  debuting a new up tempo style of play that will consist of full court play on both ends of the floor. This system led to the Hornets posting a 126-74 exhibition victory over Dominican, in a game where seven players scored in double figures, and four posted double-doubles.     Prior to her time in the Green and Gold, Craighead spent two years as an assistant at Portland State. A former player at Oregon, Craighead served as the Vikings’ recruiting coordinator and also worked with the post players.     In her first year at Portland State, she helped develop a pair of all-conference performers in guard/forward Kelsey Kahle and center Brianna Thompson. Kahle would post the most prolific freshman season in school history, tying for third among the nation’s freshmen in scoring at 17.3 ppg and tied for eighth in rebounding at 8.3 rpg. She would earn first team all-Big Sky Conference honors and was named the conference’s co-outstanding freshman.     Prior to working at Portland State, Craighead was an assistant at Div. II powerhouse Seattle Pacific under the guidance of two-time NCAA Division II Coach of the Year Gordy Presnell.     Craighead served as Presnell’s top assistant for two seasons, and coached Seattle Pacific to a 99-75 win over Alaska Fairbanks on Dec. 4, 2004, while Presnell was on leave.     Seattle Pacific finished the 2004-05 season ranked No. 2 in the nation.     While playing at Oregon, the Ducks made three trips to the NCAA Tournament and captured the 2002 WNIT championship her senior season.     She finished her career second on the school’s career list for three-point field goals with 182, and ranked seventh in three-point field goal percentage at 36.9 percent.     Craighead was an honorable mention academic all-Pacific 10 selection in 2002. She graduated from Oregon with a bachelor’s degree in educational studies.     A native of Elma, Wash., Craighead attended Elma High School, where she was the Washington 2A Player of the Year and a four-time all-league selection. She finished her career setting school records for points (1,669), assists (653), steals (405) and blocked shots (168).

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