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Phillip Heath
NUMBER: 22
POSITION: Guard
CLASS: Junior - 2V
HEIGHT: 5-10 WEIGHT: 180
HOMETOWN: Seattle, Wash.
PREVIOUS SCHOOL: Rainier Beach H.S.
1999-00: Appeared in 12 games last season, seeing almost four minutes of action per appearance...Averaged 1.2 points, 0.3 rebounds and was 5-for-16 shooting in those 12 games...Also was 2-for-6 from behind the arc...Had his season-high point total of four at Arkansas-Little Rock on Feb. 21...Made his only three-point attempt of the season at Navy on Dec. 6...Played a season-high 11 minutes at Oregon on Dec. 11...Played seven minutes a game two other occasions, at Arkansas State Feb. 5 and at UALR Feb. 21...Best all-around game was Feb. 5 at Arkansas State when he scored three points, tallied two rebounds, and dished out two assists.
1998-99: Played in 24 of Denver's 27 games last season...Averaged 1.0 points, 0.5 rebounds and 0.2 assists...Scored a season-high six points on 2-of-2 shooting from three-point range vs. Arkansas State on Nov. 28, 1998 and that perfect night from beyond the arc matched the team season high for three-point field goal percentage...Grabbed a season-high two rebounds vs. Arkansas State, a mark he also matched against Loyola (Md.) on Feb. 2, 1999...Dished out a season-best two assists in a win over Wyoming on Nov. 17, 1998...Scored five points in eight minutes off the bench vs. Air Force on Feb. 16, 1999...Tallied four points in six minutes of play against Texas-Pan American on Jan. 30, 1999.
At Rainier Beach High School (Seattle, Wash.): As team captain, helped Rainier Beach to a 27-2 record and the 1998 Washington 3A state title...Team was ranked West Coast's sixth-best by USA Today...Named second-team all-city in 1998...Averaged 14 points, six rebounds and four assists as a senior for the Vikings...Shot .440 from three-point range in '98...Co-captained Rainier Beach track team as a senior...Member of 4-by-100 meter relay team that placed second in the state in both 1996 and 1997...Finished fifth in three events in the 1998 state track meet - 100-meter dash, 200-meter dash and 4X100 meter relay.
Personal: Born Phillip J. Heath on December 18, 1979 in Seattle, Wash....Son of Rosella Braxton and Donald Heath...Stepfather is Jerry Dorsey III...Has one brother (Brandon)...Computer science major with minors in both math and business...Selected as Denver's representative and one of only 300 student-athletes selected to participate in the NCAA Foundation Leadership Conference in Orlando, Fla., in 1999...Wants to have a career in Information Technology after graduation...Chose Denver because he wanted to get a great college education and basketball experience...Classically trained pianist...Enjoys playing video games, chess and reading and writing in his spare time...Served as a counselor at Pacific Lutheran University's summer basketball camps.
Career Highs
Points 6, vs. Arkansas State, 11/28/98
Rebounds 2, three times
Assists 2, twice
FG Made 2, twice
FG Att. 5, vs. Loyola (Md.), 2/2/99
3-pt. FG Made 2, vs. Arkansas State, 11/28/98
3-pt. FG Att. 2, twice
FT Made 2, at Arkansas-Little Rock, 2/21/00
FT Att. 2, three times
Steals 1, four times
Blocked Shots ----
Minutes 17, at Wyoming, 11/17/98
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