Pepperdine University Athletics

Kaijae Yee-Stephens Career Statistics

CAREER: Was limited to 14 games over three seasons due to injuries ... Averaged 2.1 points in 8.9 minutes.
 
PEPPERDINE 2018-19: Did not see any action while recovering from injury.
 
PEPPERDINE 2017-18: Played in 10 games off the bench as a redshirt freshman ... Averaged 2.4 points, 0.7 rebounds and 0.6 assists in 9.2 minutes ... Missed all of non-conference play and didn’t appear until the 14th game of the season due to a knee injury ... Had season highs of nine points, four rebounds, two three-pointers and 28 minutes played in his season debut at San Diego (12/30) ... Scored six points on 3-for-5 shooting vs. Gonzaga (1/4) ... Scored five points at San Francisco (1/20).
 
PEPPERDINE 2016-17: Appeared in the first four games of his true freshman season before suffering a season-ending ankle injury ... Applied for a medical redshirt ... Scored five points, hitting a three-pointer vs. Life Pacific (11/17) and getting a basket vs. Weber State (11/15) ... Played 13 minutes in both of those games ... Had a rebound vs. Weber State and a steal vs. Life Pacific ... Averaged 8.3 minutes in the four games ... A Pepperdine-Scholar Athlete.
 
HIGH SCHOOL: Graduated from Santa Cruz (Calif.) High School in 2016 ... Scored a school-record 2,066 points over his four-year career (a 19.0 average) ... Made 276 three-pointers ... A unanimous selection as the Most Valuable Player in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League as a senior ... Earned co-MVP honors as a sophomore and was all-league all four years ... Prep2Prep named him its 2015-16 Central Coast Section Player of the Year ... His 2,000th career point came in a career-high-tying 45-point effort against Arcata in the first round of the 2016 CIF NorCal Championships ... Averaged 26.6 points, 7.2 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.8 steals as a senior ... Averaged 20.7 points as a junior, 20.3 as a sophomore and 10.6 as a freshman ... Helped lead Santa Cruz to three straight SCCAL titles ... Won the 2015 CIF Central Coast Section Division IV title and reached the championship game of the 2013 Division III Tournament ... A scholar-athlete.
 
CLUB: Played AAU ball with the Golden State Arsenal, TSC and West Valley.
 
PERSONAL: Born in Santa Cruz, Calif. ... Son of Desiree Yee and Reggie Stephens ... His father played football for Rutgers and in the NFL with the New York Giants ... Has one sibling, Deijah ... Majoring in computer science/math ... Chose Pepperdine because “the coaching staff and the guys on the team were very welcoming. Pepperdine has a really awesome campus. It’s a small school with great academics, and it’s a place where you can make close connections with the people around you.”
 
FAVORITES: Favorites include Allen Iverson (pro basketball player), Golden State Warriors (pro basketball team), East of Eden (book), The Sandlot (movie), Parks and Recreation (TV show), Young Thug (musical artist), Chinese (food) and baseball (sport other than basketball) ... Favorite thing about basketball is “it taught me to work hard.”