UC Santa Barbara
2011-12
As a junior, played in all 33 games in her first seasonwith the Gauchos, with 32 starts…Led the team with 31.9minutes per game (1054 total)…Also led the team in rebounds,grabbing 276 total boards (8.4 per game average)…Led theteam with 29 blocked shots (.09 per game average)…Had acareer-high 16 rebound performance vs. USF on Dec.2…Career-high 50 minutes in a double-overtime victory overCal State Northridge on Jan. 21…Scored double-figures inseven games…Had three double-doubles on the year…Hada 14 point, 12 rebound performance on Feb. 9 vs. Cal StateFullerton…Followed that game with 15 points on 7-for-10shooting and 10 rebounds vs. Cal StateBakersfield…Season-high 16 points, while adding 11 reboundsin the Big West Championship game vs. Long Beach State on Mar.10…Named Big West Tournament MVP for herperformance…Also garnered Athlete of the Week honors fromSanta Barbara Athletic Roundtable…In Big West play, led theteam with 32.0 minutes per game (512 total)…Played in all 16games…Grabbed 131 total rebounds (8.2 per game average),with 43 of those coming on the offensive glass…Totaled 104points (6.4 per game average)…Recorded a team-high 13blocks…Tied for the team lead with 14 steals.
Oregon State University
2008-2010
As a sophomore, Kirsten started all 31 games for theBeavers averaging 34.4 minutes per game, 8.1 points and 7.5rebounds per game…Scored in double figures in 12games…Posted four double doubles…Shot 46.2 percentfrom the floor…On November 13, 2009 vs. Cal Poly, she scored19 points pulled down eight rebounds, had three blocks and twosteals…Eight days later on November 22 vs. Houston Baptist,Kirsten had 26 points, 13 rebounds, one assist, two blocks and onesteal…In her freshman season, Kirsten played in all 32 gameswhile starting 18 for the Beavers…She averaged 3.8 ppg and4.1 rpg…The Beavers played in the Pac-10 tournament and madeit to the second round of the WNIT…While at Oregon State,Kirsten was a member of the Honor Society, was named to ESPNMagazine All-Academic All-District 8 2nd team, was an OSU ScholarAthlete, an OSU Provost Scholarship recipient and 1st Team Pac-10Women's Basketball All-Academic…She also received the OSUCollege of Forestry's Paul and Neva Dunn Outstanding Senior Award,and was also given the OSU College of Forestry's Natural ResourcesOutstanding Student Award.
High School
Kirsten played at Bozeman High School under BrookeSvendsen…She earned 12 varsity letters in basketball (4),soccer (4) and track (4), while playing for the Hawks…As asenior, Kirsten was All-State in all three sports and received theBozeman High School Athlete and Scholar Athlete of the Yearawards…She was a National Honor Society Member, graduatingwith a 4.0 GPA and was one of the school's valedictorians…Inher junior campaign, Kirsten was All-State in all three sports, wasnamed the 2006- 2007 Gatorade Player of the Year in basketball andwas the 2006 Gatorade Player of the Year in soccer…She alsowon a State Championship in all three sports that year and wasnamed the Montana Most Valuable Player.
Personal
Kirsten Jean Tilleman was born April 24, 1990 to Jim and MirianTilleman in Billings, Montana…She has an older brother,Colin (24) and a younger brother, Kyle (20)…At UCSB, she isworking towards her Master's of Environmental Sciences andManagement with a possible specialization in Conservation Planningor Water Resource Management…Kirsten's favorite movies areall the Toy Story movies, Into the Wild and Up…Her favoriteauthor is Jonathan Safran Foer, while some of her favorite novelsinclude the Harry Potter series, His Dark Materials series,Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, andThe History of Love…Kirsten’s favorite musicians andbands include Bon Iver, Band of Horses, Brandi Carlile, The CaveSingers, The Decemberists, Iron and Wine, Wilco and KidCudi…Her hobbies include anything outdoors like hiking,camping and climbing…She also enjoys cooking and baking aswell as live music, and making art and enjoys country linedancing…Goes by the nicknames Montana or KT.
| Years | GP-GS | Min | Fg-Fga | Pct | 3fg-3fga | Pct | ft-fta | Pct | OffReb | DefReb | Tot | Avg | Pf | A | TO | Blk | Stl | Pts | Avg |
| 2008-2009* | 32-18 | 734 | 46-87 | 0.529 | 0-0 | 0.00 | 28-43 | 0.651 | 68 | 64 | 132 | 4.1 | 53 | 16 | 32 | 11 | 27 | 120 | 3.8 |
| 2009-2010* | 31-31 | 1067 | 96-208 | 0.462 | 0-1 | 0.00 | 60-103 | 0.583 | 79 | 153 | 232 | 7.5 | 72 | 30 | 75 | 11 | 39 | 252 | 8.1 |
| 2011-2012 | 33-32 | 1054 | 87-177 | 0.492 | 0-0 | 0.00 | 52-78 | 0.667 | 93 | 183 | 276 | 8.4 | 83 | 33 | 49 | 29 | 28 | 226 | 6.8 |
| Career | 96-81 | 2855 | 229-472 | 0.485 | 0-1 | 0.00 | 140-224 | 0.625 | 240 | 400 | 640 | 6.7 | 208 | 79 | 107 | 51 | 94 | 598 | 6.2 |
* At Oregon State
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</td><td> </td><td>Career Highs</td><td> </td></tr><tr><td>Points</td><td>26 </td><td>vs. Houston Baptist</td><td>11/22/09</td></tr><tr><td>Rebounds</td><td>16</td><td>vs. USF </td><td>12/2/11</td></tr><tr><td>Assists</td><td>3</td><td>seven times</td><td>seven times</td></tr><tr><td>Steals</td><td>4</td><td>Twice</td><td>Twice</td></tr><tr><td>Blocks</td><td>3</td><td>twice</td><td>twice</td></tr><tr><td>FG Made</td><td>9</td><td>vs. Houston Baptist</td><td>11/22/09</td></tr><tr><td>FG Attempted</td><td>12</td><td>vs. Oregon</td><td>1/09/10</td></tr><tr><td>FT Made</td><td>8</td><td>twice</td><td>twice</td></tr><tr><td>FT Attempted</td><td>11</td><td>vs. Houston Baptist</td><td>11/22/09</td></tr></tbody></table>
