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{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1983)}}
{{Infobox basketball biography
| name            = Jacqueline Batteast
| position        = [[Basketball position#Frontcourt (forwards and center)|Forward]]
| height_ft       = 6
| height_in       = 2
| weight_lb       =
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1983|3|26|mf=y}}
| birth_place     = [[South Bend, Indiana]], U.S.
| death_date      = 
| death_place     = 
| high_school     = [[Washington High School (South Bend, Indiana)|Washington]] <br/>(South Bend, Indiana)
| college         = [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball|Notre Dame]] (2001–2005)
| draft_year      = 2005
| draft_round     = 2
| draft_pick      = 17
| draft_team      = [[Minnesota Lynx]]
| draft_league    = WNBA
| career_start    = 
| career_end      = 
| career_position = 
| career_number   =
| years1          = {{WNBA Year|2005}}
| team1           = [[Minnesota Lynx]]
| years2          = {{WNBA Year|2006}}
| team2           = [[Detroit Shock]]
| highlights = 
* [[List of WNBA champions|WNBA champion]] ([[2006 WNBA Finals|2006]])
* [[Women's Basketball Coaches Association|Kodak]] All-American (2005)
* Third-team All-American – [[Associated Press|AP]] (2005)
* 2x First-team All-[[Big East Conference|Big East]] (2004, 2005)
* [[Big East Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year|Big East Player of the Year]] (2005)
* [[USBWA National Freshman of the Year]] (2002)
*[[Big East Conference Women's Basketball Freshman of the Year|Big East Rookie of the Year]] (2002)
* Big East All-Freshman Team (2002)
}}

'''Jacqueline Batteast''' (born March 26, 1983) is a professional [[basketball]] player from [[South Bend]], [[Indiana]], who last played in the [[Women's National Basketball Association]] (WNBA) for the [[Detroit Shock]].

Batteast attended the [[University of Notre Dame]], where she became the school's 4th all-time leading scorer with 1,874 career points. She started a school record 97 consecutive games prior to graduating in 2005.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.und.com/sports/w-baskbl/spec-rel/052005aab.html|title=Three Irish Alums On 2005 WNBA Opening Day Rosters|access-date=2017-08-31}}</ref>

Following her collegiate career, she was selected 17th overall in the [[2005 WNBA draft]] by the [[Minnesota Lynx]]. On April 5, 2006, Batteast was dealt to Detroit for [[Ambrosia Anderson]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wnba.com/archive/wnba/shock/news/06draft_060405.html|title=SHOCK: Shock Acquires Jacqueline Batteast in Draft-Day Trade|website=www.wnba.com|access-date=2017-08-31}}</ref>

Batteast played one season for Detroit, averaging 1.4 points and 1.0 rebounds in 26 games as Detroit won the 2006 WNBA championship. On May 18, 2007, she was waived by Detroit.

Batteast is now an assistant coach for the Washington High School Lady Panthers, where she graduated, in South Bend and is an assistant manager at Enterprise Rent A Car in Elkhart, IN

==Notre Dame statistics==
Source<ref name="NCAA Player stats"/>
{{NBA player statistics legend}}
{|class="wikitable"
  !Year
  !Team
  !GP
  !Points
  !FG%
  !3P%
  !FT%
  !RPG
  !APG
  !SPG
  !BPG
  !PPG
 
 |-
  |2001-02
  |[[Notre Dame Fighting Irish women's basketball|Notre Dame]]
  |26
  |358
  |40.4
  |33.3
  |67.0
  |7.8
  |2.0
  |1.3
  |1.4
  |13.8
 
 |-
  |2002-03
  |Notre Dame
  |32
  |445
  |38.8
  |19.6
  |67.2
  |8.3
  |2.5
  |'''2.0'''
  |'''1.6'''
  |13.9
 
 |-
  |2003-04
  |Notre Dame
  |32
  |512
  |'''45.2'''
  |'''34.5'''
  |62.7
  |'''8.6'''
  |2.3
  |1.5
  |1.2
  |16.0
 
 |-
  |2004-05
  |Notre Dame
  |'''33'''
  |'''559'''
  |41.2
  |34.0
  |'''78.4'''
  |6.6
  |'''2.6'''
  |1.2
  |1.3
  |'''16.9'''
 
 |-
  |Career
  |Notre Dame
  |123
  |1874
  |41.5
  |30.5
  |69.3
  |7.8
  |2.4
  |1.5
  |1.4
  |15.2
 |}

==WNBA career statistics==
{{WNBA player statistics legend}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|style="background:#afe6ba; width:3em;"|†
|Denotes seasons in which Batteast won a [[WNBA Finals|WNBA championship]]
|}

===Regular season===
{{WNBA player statistics start}}
|-
| align="left" | [[2005 WNBA season|2005]]
| align="left" | [[2005 Minnesota Lynx season|Minnesota]]
| 8 || 0 || 5.8 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 0.6 || '''0.4''' || 0.0 || '''0.1''' || 0.4 || 0.0
|-
|style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|  [[2006 WNBA season|2006]]<sup>†</sup>
| align="left" | [[2006 Detroit Shock season|Detroit]]
| '''26''' || '''1''' || '''6.7''' || '''.278''' || '''.143''' || '''.571''' || '''1.0''' || 0.3 || '''0.1''' || '''0.1''' || 0.2 || '''1.4'''
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" | 2 years, 2 teams
| 34 || 1 || 6.5 || .250 || .143 || .267 || .571 || 0.9 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 0.1 || 0.2 || 1.1
{{S-end}}

===Playoffs===
{{WNBA player statistics start}}
|-
|style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"| [[2006 WNBA season|2006]]<sup>†</sup>
| align="left" | [[2006 Detroit Shock season|Detroit]]
| 4 || 0 || 2.3 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0
|-
| align="left" | Career
| align="left" | 1 year, 1 team
| 4 || 0 || 2.3 || .000 || .000 || .000 || 0.0 || 0.3 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0
{{S-end}}

== References ==
{{reflist|refs=

<ref name="NCAA Player stats">{{cite web|last1=|first1=|title=Women's Basketball Player stats|date=|url=http://web1.ncaa.org/stats/StatsSrv/careersearch|website=NCAA|accessdate=1 October 2015}}</ref>

}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080405202236/http://www.wnba.com/playerfile/jacqueline_batteast/index.html WNBA Player profile]

{{USBWA National Freshman of the Year}}
{{Big East Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year navbox}}
{{Detroit Shock 2006 WNBA champions}}
{{2005 WNBA draft}}

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