Name: Jill Seager
Position: Point Guard
Graduation year: 1994 (from MTHS); 1999 (from UW)
Coach: Susan Lahti
High School Basketball Awards: Most Inspirational and I was captain my senior year.
College/Occupation: 3 years at Western, 2 years at UW (with a quarter at the University of Swansea in Wales, U.K.) - got my B.S. in Civil Engineering and am now working as a Transportation Engineer doing projects for the Dept. of Transportation and Sound Transit.

Have you been playing any basketball (i.e. college, intramurals, 3 on 3)? I played intramurals all throughout college, and while I was in Swansea, I played on the university team there.

Tell us what you've been doing? Well let's see...before I got out of college, I spent a few summers in Maine teaching math and supervising the girl's dorm at a boarding school. When I was studying in Wales, I toured around the U.K. every chance I got, and then for christmas break, my boyfriend Paul came and met me in Paris and we spent 2 weeks traveling around Europe. Since I've started working, I've managed to do a little more traveling - Alaska, San Diego, the San Juans, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Florida. I just did the Danskin Triathalon a few days ago - 1/2 mi. swim, 12 mi. bike, & 2.6 mi. run I think. It was awesome! Even though I can't swim worth beans, it was a very inspirational experience and I highly recommend it to everyone! Plus it raises money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. I helped Bryan Howisey coach the 8th grade Thunderhawks last winter, which was quite a blast! :) I've been playing on a co-ed soccer team on Sunday nights for the past year or so. I've taken a few yoga classes and love it, but am having trouble finding a place (and the time) to do it regularly. Just this summer I decided to go back to school to get my masters degree in secondary education so I can teach math and maybe coach basketball someday.

Favorite MTHS basketball highlight: Spending the night in the MTHS gym with all 3 girl's basketball teams, We watched pistol pete (my favorite basketball movie of all time) and then practiced pistol's moves til the early hours of the morning.

Best book I have ever read: Little Altars Everywhere by Rebecca Wells
Favorite food: TCBY!! (frozen yogurt) and anything with lots of yummy vegetables in it!
My favorite movie: I can never remember movies very well. I like Beaches alot, and Life is Beautiful made me cry like crazy. Forest Gump and American Beauty were pretty good too.
My favorite TV show: I don't really watch TV, but I did sort of get hooked on Roswell.
Favorite actor: Don't have one. They all make way too much money for me to give them too much of my attention. But Paul Rudd is pretty darn cute.
Favorite actress: Ditto. Although Rosie O'Donnel seems pretty down-to-earth.
My favorite musical group: Tracy Chapman, Ani Difranco, and the Dave Matthews Band
Favorite sport other than basketball: Soccer
The best advice I ever received was: Always, always have confidence in yourself. It makes ALL the difference!!

If I could invite three people to dinner in history, they would be: That's tough one - I guess Johannes Brahms, Ghandi, and the Dalai Lama.
The place I would most like to visit: Oh, too many!! Thailand, India, the
Carribean, Nepal, Austrailia, Spain, Prague, Brazil, Costa Rica, Egypt, etc. etc.
The favorite place I've visited: Venice and Maine
Hobbies: biking, backpacking, hiking, camping, running, soccer, basketball (coaching & playing), rollerblading, yoga, kickboxing if i'm feeling really ambitious, traveling, reading, watching movies, and occasionally playing my violin and piano.