The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
2019-20 Women's Basketball Roster
Trista Magee
- Height:
- 6-1
- Class:
- Redshirt Senior
- Prev School:
- Alabama
- Hometown:
- Ellisville, Miss.
- High School:
- Presbyterian Christian School
2019-20 (Redshirt Senior)
- Named CoSIDA Academic All-District
- Named to the Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll
- One of only four players to start in all 31 games
- Earned her first career start against South Alabama (Nov. 8)
- Averaged 8.8 points and 3.9 rebounds per game while dishing out 67 assists, recording 10 blocks and 20 steals
- Scored in double-figures 13 times, with a career high 18 points in her final game in Bartow Arena against Southern Miss (March 7)
- Led UAB in scoring three times, assists five times and rebounds seven times
- Recorded 3+ triples on eight occasions with a career best four 3’s three times: at Oklahoma (Nov. 10), at WKU (Jan. 9) and against Southern Miss (March 7)
- Second on the team in threes made (53)
- Third on the team in assists (67), rebounds (120) and steals (20)
- Helped UAB set a single-season school record for 3-point FG percentage (38.1%)
2018-19 (Redshirt Junior)
- Appeared in 27 games, but missed the final six but injuries
- Ranked fourth on the team in rebounds per game (4.9)
- Paced the Blazers on the boards in six games, including reeling in a career-best 10 at Alabama State (Dec. 16) in Coach Norton’s 100th career victory
- Tallied double digits points on two occasions with a season high coming against Alcorn State (Nov. 30) on a career best six made field goals
- Led UAB in assists one time with a career high four against Coppin State (Dec. 20)
- Helped UAB to setting the program record for 3-pointers in a season (291), 3-point field goals attempted (811), the third best field goal percentage from long range (35.9 percent) and fifth best free throw percentage (72.0 percent)
- Named to the Conference USA Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll
2017-18 (Redshirt Sophomore)
- Appeared in 21 games
- Helped guide the team to 27 total wins and 13 wins in C-USA play, both program records
- Helped win the program’s first-ever C-USA Regular Season Championship
- Member of the first UAB squad to play in the postseason since 2010-11
- Part of the UAB team that set the program record for 3-point field goal percentage (37.6) and set the school record for made 3-point field goals (267)
- Finished the year with a 42.6 percent 3-point field goal percentage after going 23-for-45 from long range
- Scored a career-high 16 points against Old Dominion (01/04/18) in a career-best 22 minutes, the first C-USA game of her career, on the back of four made triples
- Also knocked down a career-best four triples against UTEP (02/02/18) en route to helping the team break the school record for most made 3-pointers in a single game (17)
- Set careers highs in both rebounds (8) and assists (4) against Tuskegee (12/30/17)
- Named to the C-USA Commissioner’s Honor Roll
2016-17 (Alabama)
-Played in 19 games
Missed the final eight games of the season with a left hip injury
-Averaged 2.0 points and 1.4 rebounds per contest
-Led Alabama in steals once
-Saw the first action of her collegiate career on Nov. 24 against Georgia State after being sidelined the first three games due to injury, finishing with three points, four rebounds and two steals
-Hit a three-pointer and added three rebounds and a steal in the win over Middle Tennessee (11/27)
-Scored a season-best nine points, all coming from three-point range, and added two steals, one rebound and an assist versus UT Martin (12/2)
-Had five points, one rebound and an assist in the win over North Florida (12/14)
-Scored eight points and added a rebound in the Crimson Tide’s game against Georgia Tech (12/18)
-Had two points, one rebound and one assist in her SEC debut against LSU (1/3).
High School
-Kristy Curry’s first verbal commitment at The University of Alabama
-Clarion-Ledger MS Preps Best of Girls’ Basketball Player of the Year
-McDonald’s All-American nominee
-USA Today ALL-USA Player of the Year for Mississippi
-Three-time member of the Clarion-Ledger Dandy Dozen Team
-Presbyterian Christian’s all-time leading scorer with over 3,000 points for her career
-Averaged 19.4 points and 11.0 rebounds as a senior and 22.3 points and 10.0 rebounds as a junior
-Named Player of the Year by Pine Belt Sports, the Hattiesburg American and the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools
-Guided her team to a win in the 2014 state championship and led them back to the final game in 2015
-Played AAU basketball with the Alabama Southern Starz under coach Doug Bush
Personal
-Born September 5, 1996
-Daughter of Tommy and Gwen Magee
-Has one brother, Johnny Milling, and one sister, Katye
-Brother played baseball at Jones County Junior College and Delta State and sister played basketball at Tulane
-Graduated in April 2018 with her degree in general studies and concentrations in public health and marketing
-Pursuing master’s degree in public administration with a specialization in nonprofit management
