As a senior in 1996–97, Starbird averaged 20.9 points, 3.7 rebounds, and 3.2 assists and was a first-team Associated Press All-American. Starbird also won the Naismith College Player of the Year, USBWA Women's National Player of the Year award, and WBCA Player of the Year awards. Upon graduating, Starbird had a program record 2,215 career points. That record would be broken 11 years later in 2008 by Candice Wiggins. Starbird graduated from Stanford in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in computer science. College statistics Sources: International basketball career Starbird represented the US at the 1997 World University Games held in Marsala, Sicily, Italy in August 1997. The USA team won all six games, earning the gold medal at the event. Starbird averaged 8.7 points per game. Professional basketball career After college, she was selected by the Seattle Reign with the fourth overall pick in the 1997 ABL draft. In two seasons with the Reign, Starbird played in 59 games and averaged 12.9 points, 2.8 rebounds, and 2.8 assists. The ABL shut down and filed for bankruptcy in late December 1998. In 1999, the Sacramento Monarchs selected Starbird in the third round (26th overall) in the WNBA draft. Starbird played in 24 games with one start for the Monarchs in 1999, averaging 2.0 points and 1.0 rebounds. In the 2000 expansion draft, the Miami Sol selected Starbird then traded her to the Utah Starzz for Elena Baranova and a second-round pick. Starbird averaged 4.0 points in 2000 and 4.7 points in 2001 with the Starzz. Starbird played professional basketball in Europe during the two offseasons, in France in 2000–01 and Austria in 2001–02. In 2002, Starbird averaged 1.7 points in 15 games for the Starzz before being traded to the Seattle Storm for Semeka Randall. With the Storm, Starbird averaged a career high 5.9 points. The Storm waived Starbird prior to the 2003 season. In the 2003–04 offseason, Starbird played in 14 games for the Spanish team Adecco Estudiantes Madrid, averaging 18.7 points and 5.1 rebounds. Starbird played her final year in the WNBA with the Indiana Fever in 2004, averaging 1.7 points and 0.8 rebounds. After the 2004 WNBA season, Starbird returned to Estudiantes. She played for PDV Ibiza during the 2005–06 season. Academic career Starbird earned a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2009. Studying in the Alliance of Technology, Learning, And Society (A.T.L.A.S.) program, she received