Oakton High Retires Caroline Coyer's Jersey

After all the accolades that have been lavished on Caroline Coyer in her four years as a starting point guard for the Oakton High girls basketball team, the school has decided to add one more: They will retire her No. 5 jersey.

Coach Fred Priester presented Coyer with her framed jersey at the on Monday at the Waterford in Springfield.

Earlier this year, Coyer was named in the Virginia High School Coaches Association's All-State team, where she was selected to the first team her junior year. She also earned the distinction as Virginia's Gatorade Player of the Year, which will put her jersey on display in the National Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tenn.

Jasmine Thomas, a 2007 Oakton High graduate and former Gatorade Player of the Year, is the only other player to have her jersey retired and hanging in the Oakton High gymnasium, where Coyer's will now hang. 

Coyer hit two milestones this season when she  and  to join Thomas as the only players in the state to exceed 500 career assists and 1,500 career points. This season she was also named Player of the Year both in the  and the , both for the second consecutive year. On Sunday, the Washington Post selected her for the First Team All-Met for the second year in a row.

In her time at Oakton, Coyer has compiled a 110-5 record that yielded four Concorde District Championships, three Northern Region Championships and a AAA VHSL Championship.

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