Houston Rockets • 2003-2004 Media Guide - NBA Media Central
Houston Rockets • 2003-2004 Media Guide - NBA Media Central
Houston Rockets • 2003-2004 Media Guide - NBA Media Central
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SCOUTING<br />
Jay Namoc<br />
Equipment Manager<br />
BASKETBALL STAFF<br />
Jay Namoc enters his 10th season with the <strong>Rockets</strong> and his sixth as<br />
equipment manager. Namoc joined the <strong>Rockets</strong> in 1994 and spent the<br />
next four seasons as the Special Assistant to the club’s Senior Executive<br />
Vice President of Basketball Affairs. Seven years ago, Namoc gained<br />
responsibilities involving player relations.<br />
Born in the Philippines, Namoc attended high school at Bishop Shanahan<br />
in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and locally at Kempner in Sugar Land.<br />
Namoc, who attended the University of <strong>Houston</strong>, lives in <strong>Houston</strong> with his<br />
wife, Kerri.<br />
Michelle Leget<br />
Assistant Athletic Trainer<br />
Michelle Leget enters her seventh season with the organization as<br />
assistant athletic trainer for the <strong>Houston</strong> <strong>Rockets</strong>. She became the first<br />
female assistant athletic trainer in <strong>NBA</strong> history when she was hired by<br />
<strong>Houston</strong> in 1997.<br />
With the <strong>Rockets</strong>, Leget is responsible for daily treatment, care and<br />
rehabilitation of players, as well as assisting Vice President of Basketball<br />
Operations/Athletic Trainer Keith Jones in all other duties.<br />
Leget has also served as head athletic trainer of the <strong>Houston</strong> Comets<br />
since the W<strong>NBA</strong>'s inaugural season. In addition to her duties with the<br />
Comets and <strong>Rockets</strong>, Leget was selected to serve as the athletic trainer for the West Team at the<br />
1999 and 2001 W<strong>NBA</strong> All-Star Games. On March 14, 2002, Leget was chosen as the athletic trainer<br />
for the 2002 USA Basketball Women’s World Championship Team, which won the gold medal at<br />
the 14th FIBA World Championship for Women held in the People’s Republic of China.<br />
Before joining the Comets and <strong>Rockets</strong>, Leget was an associate athletic trainer at the University of<br />
<strong>Houston</strong> for four years, working primarily with the Cougars football program. Leget also served as<br />
a graduate assistant trainer from 1991-93 at the University of Florida, where she worked with the<br />
Gators volleyball program.<br />
A native of Vienna, Virginia, Leget received her bachelor’s degree in sports medicine from <strong>Central</strong><br />
Michigan University in 1990. She went on to earn a master’s of exercise and sports science in athletic<br />
training and sports administration from the University of Florida in 1993. Leget is also a certified<br />
member of the National Athletic Trainer’s Association and a member of the National Basketball<br />
Trainer’s Association.<br />
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