(Senior Year – 2016-17)
Played in and started 26 games …. Averaged 7.8 points, 3.3 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 29.5 minutes per game … Shot 28.5 percent from 3-point range and made 1.5 triples per game, ranking 13th in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in both categories … Finished fourth on the team with 202 points, 56 assists and 36 steals … Tied for fifth with 86 rebounds … Her 137 3-point field-goal attempts are the 10
th-most in a single season in school history and ninth-most in the Division I era … Her 39 3-point field goals made ties for 10th in the schools Division I era … Led the team in steals 10 times, scoring four times, assists in four games and rebounds once during the season … Tallied double-digit scoring in seven games ... Drained at least one 3-pointer in 21 games, with the Spartans winning 13 of those contests … Tallied a season-high 18 points twice, against St. Augustine’s (Nov. 15) and South Carolina State (Feb. 15) … Phillips added six rebounds, two assists and one block against St. Augustine’s and seven rebounds, seven assists and matched a season-high with four steals against South Carolina State … Notched a career-high eight assists at Delaware State (Jan. 16) while also contributing eight points, seven rebounds and four steals … Went 5-of-12 from the floor, including 4-of-9 from 3-point range at Towson (Dec. 29), recording 15 points … The four made triples established a new career high … Attempted nine triples at Lehigh (Nov. 26), making three and scoring 11 points .. Grabbed a career-high eight rebounds while also notching six points and three assists at South Carolina State (Feb. 4) ... Finished her NSU career ranked 11th in program history 3-point field goal attempts (218), 11th in 3-point field-goals made (61) in a career and 17th in 3-point field-goal percentage at .280 (61-218) … Made the NSU Athletics Director’s Honor Roll for the fall and spring semesters … Named to the MEAC Commissioner’s All-Academic Team.
(Junior Year – 2015-16)
Played in 21 games and started eight times … Averaged 7.4 points per game which ranked fifth on the team … Finished third on the team with 39 total assists (1.9 per game) and averaged 2.2 rebounds … Led the team in free throw percentage at .872 (34-of-39) … Ranked second on the team with 22 3-pointers … Notched 14 steals and two blocks on the season … Registered seven double-digit scoring games … Scored a career-high 21 points on 7-of-19 shooting from the field in 36 minutes, while adding five assists in a 110-108 victory over Howard (Feb. 6) … Shot 3-for-6 from behind the 3-point line in the same game … Followed that up with 12 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals at Maryland Eastern Shore (Feb. 8) … Notched 16 points, five assists and three rebounds at Marshall (Dec. 20) … Tallied 14 points, one rebound and one assist against Florida A&M (Jan. 9) … Registered 15 points, two rebounds and three assists at North Carolina Central (Jan. 16) … Recorded 12 points, four rebounds, one assist, one block and one steal at Delaware State (Feb. 20) … Tallied 15 points, four assists, one block and one steal against Coppin State in the MEAC tournament … Named to the NSU Athletics Director’s Honor Roll for the fall and spring semesters.
Junior College (Freshman/Sophomore Years)
Attended Gulf Coast State College in Panama City, Fla. as a sophomore in 2014-15 … Averaged 4.7 points and 1.3 rebounds per game … Made 21 3-point field goals on the season … Shot 82.6 percent from the free throw line … Selected to the NJCAA Region VIII Florida all-state tournament team after averaging 13.5 points in her team’s tournament games … Attended Pasadena City College as a freshman in 2013-14 … Averaged 8.5 points, 2.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game that season … Shot 77 percent from the free-throw line … Scored a season-high of 18 points on two occasions.
High School/Club
Played 13 years of club basketball in Australia … Led her club team, the Dandenong Rangers, to three straight national club titles her sophomore through senior years … Named the MVP of her club team … Broke the Maranatha school record in the 800 meters her freshman year … Also won several Excellence in Music awards.
Personal
Full name is Kiara Rose Phillips … Born on June 20, 1994 … Daughter of Jerome and Jenny Phillips … Has two sisters … Her twin sister, Tenaya, is a professional basketball player in Australia’s Women’s National Basketball League … Earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology in May of 2017.
| Career Highs |
| Points |
21, at Howard (2-6-16) |
| FG Made |
7, at Howard (2-6-16) |
| FG ATT. |
19, at Howard (2-6-16) |
| 3Pt. FG Made |
4, at Towson (12-29-16) |
| 3Pt. FG ATT. |
9 (2x), last: at Towson (12-29-16) |
| FT Made |
5 (2x), last: vs. South Carolina State (2-15-17) |
| FT ATT. |
6, at Delaware State (2-20-16) |
| Rebounds |
8, at South Carolina State (2-4-17) |
| Assists |
8, at Delaware State (1-16-17) |
| Steals |
4 (2x), last: vs. South Carolina State (2-15-17) |
| Blocks |
1 (4x), last: at Towson (12-29-16) |
| Minutes |
37 (2x), last: vs. Delaware State (3-6-17) |
