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Athletes of the Week

Alex Jones

Alex Jones

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/22/2010
  • Sport
    Women's Basketball
  • Bio
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Eastern Kentucky University freshman Alex Jones was selected as the Ohio Valley Conference Women’s Basketball Player of the Week for the first time on Monday, Feb. 22. Jones scored 34 points and grabbed 18 rebounds to lead the Lady Colonels to a 12-point victory at Morehead State. 
 
The Elizabethtown, Ky., native was also chosen as the OVC Freshman of the Week for the fourth time this season.
 
Jones went 12-for-17 (70.6 percent) from the field and 10-for-11 (90.9 percent) from the free throw line. Her 34 points bettered her previous career-high of 26 against Bethune-Cookman earlier this season. She had three assists, a block and a steal to go along with her career-best 18 rebounds, three more than her previous high.
 
With the Lady Colonels leading by three with a minute left in the game, Jones went 5-for-6 from the free throw line and scored seven of Eastern’s final nine points to put the game away. She scored 20 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the second half. 
 
Jones set career-highs for points, rebounds, field goals, field goals attempted, free throws and free throws attempted. The double-double was her sixth of the season


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
1/10/2017 Asante Gist Men's Basketball
12/1/2016 Aaron Patrick Football
12/1/2016 Shavontae Naylor Women's Basketball
11/7/2016 Jeffrey Canady Football
11/7/2016 Lilian Jeptoo Kiborus Cross Country
10/13/2016 Bennie Coney Football
10/13/2016 Rachel Woody Volleyball
9/29/2016 Avery Pitt Football
9/29/2016 Charlotte Imer Cross Country
9/15/2016 Anna Hall Soccer
9/15/2016 Erik Lindwall Men's Golf
9/1/2016 Elsa Moberly Women's Golf
9/1/2016 Keith Wrzuszczak Football
6/8/2016 Paige Murphy Softball
4/26/2016 Alex Álvaro Men's Tennis
4/25/2016 Anna Gleixner Women's Golf
3/29/2016 Florian Graskamp Men's Tennis
3/29/2016 Hayley Flynn Softball
2/9/2016 Viktorija Demcenkova Women's Tennis
2/9/2016 Tom Koringo Track & Field
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