She played college basketball for New Mexico from 1999 to 2003,[2] and represented the Canadian national team multiple times.
Adams also led her team to the 1999 state basketball championship, and was named the Nevada Gatorade Player of the Year.
[5] She returned to New Mexico in 2008 as the Lobos' director of women's basketball operations for three years, and later worked as an assistant coach in the sport at University of California, Riverside and Pepperdine for a total of four seasons, until 2015.
[7] Adams's half-brother and Gonzaga power forward Kyle Wiltjer played for the Houston Rockets of the NBA and various European clubs.
[8] She earned her bachelor's degree in undergraduate studies with an emphasis in journalism and physical education from the University of New Mexico in 2003, and also earned her master's in special education from Western Governors University, in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2010.