A two-time all-Big Ten performer, she was one of the first post players for Lisa Bluder and Jan Jensen with the Hawkeyes
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IOWA CITY — One of the first successful post projects of the Lisa Bluder/Jan Jensen women’s basketball era at the University of Iowa, Jamie Cavey Lang died Saturday.
She was 41.
Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Thursday at The Celebration Farm, located 4696 Robin Woods Lane NE, Iowa City. Funeral Mass will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Mary Catholic Church, Solon.
A native of Mechanicsville, Lang was a member of North Cedar’s Class 2A state championship team in 2000.
She played for the Hawkeyes from 2001 through 2005 and compiled 1,265 career points (27th in program history), 506 rebounds (31st) and 94 blocks (eighth). She was a two-time all-Big Ten performer, earning second-team honors as a senior, and was a member of NCAA tournament teams in 2002 and 2004.
Cavey Lang earned both a Bachelor of Arts and a master’s degree at Iowa, and later played professional basketball in Europe.
She spent several years alongside play-by-play announcer Rob Brooks as color commentator on the Hawkeye Radio Network.
She is survived by her husband Mike, children Vincent, Bennett and Sydney, parents Patrick and Pam Cavey, siblings Ann (Jack) Jameson, Kelsie (Chad) Dotterer and Jason (Stacey) Cavey, grandmother Sharon Mertka, father and mother-in-law Ken and Jayne Lang, sisters-in-law Amie (Joe) Stewart, Melissa (Mark) Storm, Abbie (Eric) Mahoney and Chantelle (Bob) Foote, and many loved nieces and nephews.
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