The Grand Canyon University women’s basketball team today announced the addition of Judy Jones to the 2012-13 roster. Jones joins the squad from Division I University of Texas at San Antonio, where she was majoring in Kinesiology.
"We are extremely pleased with Judy's decision to join our program and university,” said head coach Trent May. “She is a great competitor with tremendous athleticism. Judy has great goals as a student athlete and we look forward as a university to help her achieve them."
Last season at UTSA, the 5'9" guard/forward was named Honorable Mention All-Southland Conference after averaging 10.1 points and a team-best 7.0 rebounds per game. She posted even better marks in conference play, averaging 11.6 points and 8.5 rebounds per game. She had a career-high 29-point performance on March 3 against UT Arlington, a game in which she also grabbed 11 rebounds for her fifth double-double of the season. She collected a career-high 17 rebounds at Southeastern Louisiana on Feb. 8.
Jones redshirted the 2010-11 season.
Jones appeared in 28 games during her freshman season, making 12 starts and averaging 10.6 points and 6.8 rebounds per game. She garnered Second Team All-Southland honors after recording five double-doubles for the season, second-most on the UTSA team.
She attended Wossman High School in Monroe, Louisiana, where she garnered Monroe News-Star’s Northeast Player of the Year and Paul Martin Award honors in 2009. Jones was a three-time First Team All-District honoree, two-time District 1-3A MVP winner and was named Second Team All-State as a senior. She averaged a team-best 18 points, 12 rebounds and five assists per game during her senior campaign. Jones also led her team to three district championships during her time at Wossman.
Also a track star, she won medals in the LHSAA 400-meters, high jump, long jump and triple jump and finished second in the long jump. Jones was the Region 1-3A 400-meter, long jump and high jump champion for Wossman in 2009 and 400-meter, long jump and triple jump in 2008. The 2008 Louisiana 3A MVP won the state title in the 400-meters for three consecutive seasons.