Javelina Hall of Fame
Karen Weiss, from House and Alief Hastings High School, is still the Javelina basketball team’s all-time leading scorer in a season. She had 644 points in 1990-91 and that’s 71 points more than any other player has scored in a year. She was inducted into the Javelina Hall of Fame in 1999.
Weiss lettered four seasons and is one of 13 players who have earned four letters since the start of the women’s program in 1968.
She was on the All-Lone Star Conference first team her junior and senior seasons and was on the Women’s Basketball Coaches’ Association All-America second unit. She was WBCA All-Region VI and was a Lone Star Conference All-Academic honoree.
Weiss still holds one school single-game record, two single-season marks and one career record. The single-game record is for free throw percentage. She hit 11 of 11 free throws against Abilene Christian in 1990-91. The season marks are for most points scored (644) and most field goals made (268). And the career mark is for free throw percentage (.757).
Not only does she have the single-season scoring record, she also ranks fifth on the chart with 516 points in 1991-92.
Her 38 points scored against Texas Lutheran in 1990-91 is the second highest single-game total for a Javelina player. It stood as a single-game record for six years. She had 35 points in two different games, had 32 in another and twice hit 30 points.
After receiving her degree in 1992, she worked for a computer company and then entered the high school coaching ranks. She coached basketball at Houston North Shore High School for two years, and has been at Fort Bend Elkins High School for the past year, coaching basketball and volleyball.
She received her MBA in Finance from The University of Saint Thomas in Houston in 2006.
She left education and returned to the corporate environment first working for Kirby Corporation in Houston, a Marine Transportation/Operator, as Insurance Manager for seven years. For the past four years, she has worked for an insurance broker, McGriff Seibels and Williams of Texas, Inc. in Houston as a Senior Claim Representative handling Offshore Bodily Injury Claims. She is a Licensed Texas Adjuster and is in the process of obtaining an Associates In Claims (AIC) designation.
She is currently a member of The Houston Mariners Club, Independent Insurance Agents of Texas, Independent Insurance Agents of Houston, Global Insurance Network and Council on Litigation Management.
