2002
Indoor: : Registered a ninth-place finish with a season-best leap of 5-06 at the Conference USA Indoor Championships...had a seventh-place finish at the Leonard Hilton Invitational and an eighth-place finish at the Houston Invitational and Southwest Invitational. Outdoor: : Finished third in the heptathlon at the C-USA Outdoor meet with 4,850 points...was ninth in the heptathlon at the Texas Relays...registered a fourth-place finish in the long jump at the RunSport Rice meet...was second in the high jump at the Longhorn Invitational...had a season-best leap of 5-04.50 to finish in ninth place at the Conference USA Championships.
2001
Indoor: : Finished third in the high jump at the C-USA Indoor Championships with a leap of 5-06.00...placed eighth with a long jump of 17-07.50 at the Hilton Memorial Invitational...finished 11th in the shot put at the Southwest Classic. Outdoor: : Finished fourth in the hepthatlon for the second straight year at the C-USA Outdoor meet with 4,800 points...Placed 14th in the 100-meter hurdles at the College Station Relays with a time of 15.87...was seventh in the long jump at the College Station Relays with a jump of 18-00.25...had a season-best high jump of 5-06.00, which was good for a fourth-place finish at the Tellez Invitational...finished sixth in the shot put at the Texas Southern Relays.
2000
Indoor: : Placed fifth in the high jump at the Houston Indoor Invitational with a leap of 5-04.25...was in sixth place at the Houston Indoor Opener and the Bayou City Indoor ...registered an eighth-place long jump of 17-06.00 at the Houston Indoor Classic...finished ninth in the long jump at the Houston Indoor Invitational. Outdoor: : Tied for fifth in the high jump at the Houston Invitational with a mark of 5-02.25...placed seventh in the javelin and eighth in the shot put at the Lewis-Tellez Dedication Meet...scored 4,669 points to finish fourth in the heptathlon at the Conference USA Championships.
High School
competed in the long and triple jumps at Rockdale...also ran on Rockdale's 4x400 meter relay team that finished fourth at the UIL Class 3A State Championships...finished fourth in the long jump at the Region III Championships with a leap of 17-3...won the District 19-3A long jump and triple jump titles with leaps of 17-8 and 35-6, respectively...her triple jump mark was a school record...named an All-State selection by the Texas Association of Basketball Coaches...also named District MVP after averaging 16 points, 8.4 rebounds and 3.7 blocked shots...named one of the top 100 players in the nation by USA Today and All-Centex, All-Brazos Valley and All-Super Centex by Waco Tribune...also played volleyball and was a member of the National Honor Society, Student Council and Dance/Drill team.
Personal
Born April 3, 1981, in Rockdale...her parents are Miller and Kathie Bassler of Rockdale...older brother, Brooks, was a high jumper on the Houston's track team from 1998-02 and was the 1998 C-USA Outdoor High Jump champion...younger brother, Blade, is a football player at UH...father, Miller, was a tight end and wide receiver for Houston's football team in 1970-74, and played with the Pittsburgh Steelers...hobbies are reading and dancing...member of the UH Honors College with a double major of political science and communications-journalism...plans to attend law school after graduation.
