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At Northern High School in Durham, N.C.: Coached by Pam Adams ... Averaged 17 points, 10 rebounds and six assists as a senior ... Named Durham Herald-Sun All-Area Girls Player of the Year following her junior and senior seasons ... Played in the 2000 East-West All-Star game ... Pac 6 Player of the Year and second-team all-state as a senior ... MVP of her high school team ... Member of the Monogram Club ... Played AAU basketball for the Triangle Knights
Personal: Joy Matilda Hairston is the daughter of Stephanie and Waldo Rogers and was born May 8, 1982, in Bluefield, W.Va. ... She has an older sister, Mona Finney (23), and a younger brother, Moses (13)
Coach Sylvia Hatchell on Hairston: "Joy is a skilled passer and sees the floor really well. She can shoot from the outside, but she's also very good at driving and finding the open person."
Q and A with Joy Hairston
- What is your favorite class you've taken at UNC? "American Cinematic Places, a first-year geography seminar. I like the professor and the student involvement in the class. You get to do a lot of hands-on type things."
- What is your favorite thing about being a student-athlete at UNC? "The social life."
- What are your career goals? "I want to become a professional basketball player, but if not I think I will go into something like criminal justice."
- How did you spend last summer? "I attended the Summer Bridge Program at UNC."
- What has been the highlight of the off-season for you? "Running the mile in the rain."
- On what part of your game have you focused in the off-season? "Conditioning."
- What have you done in the off-season to improve your game? "Lifted weights and worked out."
- What are your goals for this season? "To learn the system and make myself a better player."
- What is the most important thing you've learned from your years of playing basketball? "There is no I in team. No one person is better than a team."
- What has been the greatest moment in your athletic career? "Signing with North Carolina, and getting a triple-double in my last away game in high school."
- What do you do to prepare yourself before each game? "I listen to music and pray."
- Who or what has inspired you to excel in basketball? "My family, because they have been behind me every step of the way."
- After what player have you modeled your game? "Sheryl Swoopes."
- What is your earliest basketball memory? "I scored 49 points on my rec team when I was 9."
- What word or words best describe you? "Outgoing."
- What is the best advice you have received? "'You can do all things through Christ that strengthens you,' from the Bible."
- What advice would you give a girl beginning to learn the game of basketball? "Work hard and never give up."
- What is something most people don't know about you? "I love to cook."
- How would you spend your ideal day? "Wake up in the morning and get breakfast from a maid, get dressed and go shopping, come home to a gourmet dinner and watch SportsCenter over and over."
- What are your hobbies or pastimes? "Sleeping, shopping and talking on the phone."
- What is one talent you have, other than basketball? "I can drink a gallon of orange juice in one day!"
