Kyle Jeffers bio
OREGON STATE
CAREER: A four-year starter who ended his career fourth all-time at OSU in blocked shots (97), as well as tied for fourth in games played (120), fifth in games started (96) and ninth in blocked shots per game (0.81) ... His 97 career blocked shots were the most of any active Pac-10 player at the conclusion of his senior season.
2006-07: Played in all 32 games and was the starting center in 30 of them ... Had a fully healthy season perhaps for the first time ... Averaged 6.8 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.0 blocked shots in 25.0 minutes, all career bests ... Led the team in rebounding for the first time and ranked 13th in the Pac-10 ... In Pac-10 games only, led the conference with a 58.1% field goal percentage ... Shot 55.2% overall, but didn’t have quite enough made field goals to appear in the Pac-10 stats ... Overall, finished ninth in the Pac-10 in blocked shots and third in offensive rebounds (2.8) ... Was in double-figure points 11 times and rebounding five times ... Led the team in scoring once and in rebounds 14 times ... Notched the only two double-doubles of his career in consecutive games with 10 points and 12 rebounds at both Hawaii and Northern Colorado ... Was either one point or one rebound away from a double-double on four other occasions ... Led OSU with a season-high 15 points at USC ... Also scored 14 points vs. Stanford and at Washington ... Other top rebounding games included a career-high 13 vs. Arizona, 11 vs. LSU and 10 vs. Washington State ... Earned the team’s Ed Lewis Award (leadership).
2005-06: Started at center again as a junior ... Averaged 6.3 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.0 blocks in 22.7 minutes ... Ranked eighth in the Pac-10 in blocked shots ... Played in 30 games, starting 26 ... Missed only one game due to injury despite playing at less than 100 percent all season long ... Had various problems with his right knee, both shoulders and left forearm ... Played two of the best games of his career in OSU’s final two wins of the season ... In the regular-season finale vs. Oregon, had eight points, eight rebounds, four steals and three blocked shots ... In the Pac-10 Tournament first-round game vs. Arizona State, had career highs of 20 points (shooting 8-of-12 from the field) in 39 minutes while tying his career high with nine rebounds ... Scored in double-figures five times ... Had back-to-back 11-point games vs. ASU and at Washington ... Added a career-high five blocked shots at UW ... Had 14 points and eight rebounds at Arizona ... Earned the team’s Paul Valenti Award (desire and determination).
2004-05: Averaged 2.9 points and 2.9 rebounds as a sophomore ... Played in 30 games, starting 17, and averaged 11.5 minutes a contest ... Started seven of the season’s first eight games ... However, saw his playing time decrease in the first half of the Pac-10 season ... Played only 18 minutes and did not score a point in the first seven Pac-10 games ... Then reestablished himself in the lineup, starting 10 of the final 12 games ... Scored a season-high nine points in the season opener against Siena ... Had a season-high eight rebounds in the third game of the season against Elon ... Blocked season-high three shots vs. Sacramento State ... Had a solid Pac-10 Tournament, scoring six points in 14 minutes against UCLA and eight points in 15 minutes against Arizona.
2003-04: Named to the Pac-10 All-Freshman honorable mention team ... Started 23 of 28 games and averaged 20.2 minutes per game as a true freshman ... Averaged 5.1 points per game ... Third on the team in rebounding at 4.8 and the team leader for blocked shots with a total of 19 ... His 19 blocked shots are tied for the second-most ever by a Beaver freshman, and included a season-high four rejections vs. Kansas State ... Scored a season-high 10 points at USC ... Had a career-high nine rebounds against Washington State and Portland ... Started the first eight games of the season.
HIGH SCHOOL
Graduated from Montgomery High School in Santa Rosa, Calif., in 2003 ... Earned North Bay League MVP and All-Bay Area first team honors ... Also named NBL Defensive Player of the Year ... Selected all-state third team as a senior ... NorCal Preps named him the California Division II Player of the Year ... Shared the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat Player of the Year honors with current teammate Angelo Tsagarakis ... Led the team to a two-year varsity record of 54-7 and a trip to the NorCal finals as a senior ... Averaged 19.3 points and 14.5 rebounds as a senior and 13.6 points and 10 rebounds as a junior ... Scored 1,027 points during his two-year varsity career ... Graduated from Montgomery with a 3.50 cumulative GPA.
PERSONAL
Son of Deana Mullikin and Cal Jeffers ... Majoring in business administration ... In 2006-07, he is the co-chair of the university’s Student Alumni Association, and last year he was a public relations director ... A member of OSU’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee ... Led the university’s "Operation Santa" effort at the end of 2006, which provided gifts to troops stationed overseas (the group sent 57 boxes weighing more than 1,900 pounds to U.S. Marines in Iraq) ... Traveled to the Bay Area in spring 2005 for the Pac-10’s SAAC leadership conference ... Chose OSU "because of the Pac-10 Conference and current players that have enjoyed the experience."
