Jamie Kingsbury '99 graduated from Lyndon State College with a bachelor of science in sports medicine in the spring of 1999. He was an outstanding basketball player at Oxbow High School in Bradford, Vt. He finished his high school career with 1,951 career points and was named Vermont Gatorade Player-of-the-Year. He was also named Vermont Player-of-the-Year by USA Today and Vermont Mr. Basketball by The Burlington Free Press. During Jamie's time at Lyndon, he was a four-year starter for the men's basketball team. He also played one year each of soccer and baseball.
As a Hornet, Jamie was team captain his junior and senior year and earned All-Conference Team honors his sophomore, junior, and senior years. He was team MVP and an All-Tournament Team selection. In his first three seasons, he averaged 15.2 points per game. In his senior season, he averaged nearly 20 points per game. Jamie scored his 1,000th college career point on January 13, 1999, against Norwich University. In his senior year, he helped lead the team to the conference finals and finished his career scoring over 1,700 points.
In his one season of soccer, Jamie was a starting midfielder and was often tasked with defending the best player on the opposing team. In baseball, he was the starting shortstop and a relief pitcher. Jamie led the team with a batting average of .409. Former Athletic Director and Coach Skip Pound stated, "Jamie is one of the most talented players we have had here at Lyndon."
After graduating, Jamie has dedicated his spare time to youth sports and volunteering as the local Little League representative in his former hometown of Piermont, N.H. While in Piermont, he coached elementary soccer, basketball, and baseball teams as well as girls and boys AAU basketball. Most recently, Jamie coached seventh/eighth grade boys' soccer and baseball at Haverhill Cooperative Middle School and Woodsville Babe Ruth baseball. One of the many highlights of Jamie's coaching experience was having the opportunity to help the Connecticut Valley North Little League (CVNLL) baseball team bring home three Vermont State Championships from 2017-2019. The CVNLL 12U baseball team was the first team in thirty years from our league to compete in the Little League New England Regional Tournament in Bristol, Conn.
Jamie started his own carpentry business over twenty years ago servicing the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. He currently resides in Woodsville, N.H., with his wife Elizabeth Chase Kingsbury '99 and their two children, Mackenzie and Landon.
