University of San Francisco men's basketball coach and retired NBA player Rex Walters said NCAA limits on coaches' recruiting visits had reduced Lin's chances: "Most colleges start recruiting a guy in the first five minutes they see him because he runs really fast, jumps really high, does the quick, easy thing to evaluate". Harvard and Brown were the only teams that guaranteed him a spot on their teams, but Ivy League schools do not offer sports scholarships. The Pac-10 (now Pac-12) schools wanted him to walk on rather than be actively recruited or offered an athletic scholarship. Lin sent his résumé and a DVD of highlights of his high school basketball career to all of the Ivy League schools the University of California, Berkeley and his dream schools, Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He was named first-team All-State and Northern California Division II Player of the Year, and ended his senior year averaging 15.1 points, 7.1 assists, 6.2 rebounds, and 5.0 steals. ĭuring his senior year in 2005–06, Lin captained Palo Alto High School to a 32–1 record and upset the nationally ranked Mater Dei, 51–47, for the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) Division II state title. She was criticized by her friends for letting Lin play so much basketball, but let him play the game he enjoyed.
She worked with coaches to ensure his playing did not affect academics. Shirley helped form a National Junior Basketball program in Palo Alto where Lin played. Gie-Ming taught his sons to play basketball at the local YMCA. Lin has an older brother, Josh, and a younger brother, Joseph. His maternal grandmother's family was tall, and her father was over 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m). Lin's parents are both 5 feet 6 inches (1.68 m) tall. Lin's paternal family are Hoklo people from Beidou, Changhua, Taiwan, while his maternal grandmother emigrated to Taiwan in the late 1940s from Pinghu, Zhejiang in mainland China. They are dual nationals of Taiwan and the U.S. His parents, Gie-ming Lin and Shirley Lin (née Xinxin Wu), emigrated from Taiwan to the United States in the mid-1970s, first settling in Virginia before moving to Indiana, where they both attended universities to study engineering and computer science. He was raised in a Christian family in the Bay Area city of Palo Alto, California. Jeremy Shu-How Lin was born in Torrance, California on August 23, 1988.
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Jeremy Shu-How Lin (born August 23, 1988) is a Taiwanese-American professional basketball player for the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).