Juana Brown Class: Senior Hometown: Memphis, Tenn. High School: Harding Academy Height: 5-11 Position: Guard Birthdate: 04/29/1979

Brown's Career Notes: A preseason candidate for the 2000-01 Naismith College Basketball Player of the Year Award ... One of three team captains

1999-2000 season notes: Scored the 1,000th point of her career on a free throw with 1:25 to play at Clemson on Feb. 10 ... Second on the team in minutes per game, averaging 32.2 ... Recipient of UNC's Best Defensive Player Award ... Missed the Richmond, Georgia Southern and Radford games with back spasms ... Double-double against Arizona State on Nov. 28 was the third of her career ... Added the fourth in the following game, with 10 points and 10 rebounds against Maryland on Dec. 2 ... Hit an NBA-range three-pointer with 23 seconds remaining to help seal the win against California ... Scored eight points in 1:25 late in the second half of the ACC championship game against Duke on a three-pointer, a field goal and three free throws ... For the game, totaled 15 points, five rebounds and five assists ... Equalled her season high with a team-leading 19 points against Georgia in the West Regional semifinal on March 25 ... Also led the team with 10 rebounds in that game

In 1998-99: Earned All-ACC Tournament honors and was named to the All-ACC third team ... Led UNC in scoring in the ACC Tournament championship game with 23 points against Clemson ... Shot 40 percent from three-point range in all games, 47.4 against conference opponents ... Her percentage against ACC opponents was the best in the conference ... Hit three or more three-pointers in 10 games ... Earned ACC Player of the Week honors following a 26-point performance against No. 11 Kansas in the second game of the season ... Against No. 11 Alabama on Dec. 20, drilled six first-half three-pointers and led the team with 26 points in a 90-75 win ... At No. 19 Virginia, hit four second-half three pointers to lead UNC with 20 points in a 79-68 win ... At No. 17 Clemson, scored 11 of her 21 points in the final 6:19 of UNC's 76-72 win ... Set new career highs with 29 points and 12 rebounds against Wake Forest on Jan. 31

In 1997-98: Ranked third on the team in rebounds with 4.5 per game ... Registered season highs in points (22) and rebounds (8) on Nov. 28 against Oklahoma at the LMU/Furama Hotel Thanksgiving Classic in Los Angeles ... That performance, combined with her 20 points and four rebounds against Miami, Ohio, in the first game of the event, earned her tournament MVP honors ... Hit the winning shot in overtime against UCLA on Dec. 18 and totaled 17 points, six rebounds for the game ... Named to the All-ACC Tournament second-team largely on the basis of her outstanding defensive play ... Logged her first career double-double in the second round NCAA tournament game with 15 points and 10 rebounds, in addition to three assists and two steals, against Florida International ... Scored in double figures seven times in the first 10 games of her Carolina career and averaged 13 points per game over that span International play: Member of the USA Basketball Junior National team that won a gold medal at the World Championships in the summer of 1997

At Harding Academy: Coached by Lesa Mears ... As a senior, named first-team All-America by Parade magazine, second-team by Street & Smith's and third team by USA Today ... 1997 Gatorade Tennessee Player of the Year ... Tennessee Athletic Coaches Association Player of the Year as a junior and senior ... District Player of the Year in 1997 and Tournament MVP in 1996 and '97 ... Four-year selection to Regional Tournament team and the MVP in 1997 ... Tennessee Miss Basketball finalist as a junior ... First-team All-State pick in 1996 and '97 ... Also played two years of volleyball and competed in track for four years, reaching the state championship in the long jump and pentathlon Personal: Juana Dremice Brown was born April 29, 1979, and is the daughter of Sharon and Ronald Brown .... She has one brother, Coytitoe Givhan, who is 28 ... At UNC, she is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and is active in community service projects ... Majoring in communication studies

Q and A with Juana Brown

• What is your favorite class you've taken at UNC? "Blacks in Cinema."
• What are your career goals? "To be successful and happy. A lot of fields interest me: I'd like to play in the WNBA and be a sports commentator, but I'm also thinking about attending culinary school or maybe mortuary school."
• On what part of your game have you focused in the off-season? "My mental focus."
• What is your goal for this season? "To give 110 percent."
• What is the most important thing you've learned from your years of playing basketball? "Leave everything on the court."
• What do you do to prepare yourself before each game? "Pray."
• Who or what has inspired you to excel in basketball? "My father. He started me playing basketball in fifth grade and was always out there with me after school and on weekends, trying to teach me about the game."
• What word or words best describe you? "Multi-talented"
• What is the best advice you have received? "'Everything that is good to you is not necessarily good for you,' from my mother."
• What advice would you give a girl beginning to learn the game of basketball? "Remember that it's a game. If you forget that, then it will not be fun."
• How would you spend your ideal day? "Watching movies. My favorite is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."
• What is one talent you have, other than basketball? "Cooking. One of my specialties is three-cheese baked penne."