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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
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Freeport, Bahamas - The Grand Bahama Girls' Soccer Developmental League will be canceled this
Saturday, November 29th due to the fact that the girls are being encouraged to come and watch the league's former soccer star, Jonquel 'JJ' Jones play basketball at the NCAA Junkanoo Jam underway at St. George's High School.
Jones plays with George Washington University on Saturday at 3:00pm.
The first 50 soccer girls who attend Junkanoo Jam with their Soccer T-Shirts on will get in free. Entrance is $5. The first 10 girls to show up receive a George Washington University shirt.
Coach Mary Knowles advises that the soccer team with the most players at Jonquel's game on Saturday will win a pizza party.
Believed to be just the third Bahamian to earn a Division I scholarship for women's basketball, the 6' 4" Jones
led the Bahamas National Team to a 5th
place at the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Senior
Championship in July, averaging 17.2 points and a tournament-best 14.0
rebounds in five games. She ranked 2nd in the tournament in scoring and
5th in blocked shots (1.4 bpg). She had a recorded 23 points, 27
rebounds, five blocks and four assists in a 70-69 overtime victory over
heavily favored Dominican Republic.
This
year's basketball tournament features NCAA Women’s basketball teams: The University of South Carolina
Gamecocks, The Boilermakers of Purdue University, North Carolina State
Wolfpacks, George Washington University's Colonials, Texas Tech
University Lady Raiders, East Carolina University Pirates, Syracuse
University Orange and the Badgers of The University of Wisconsin.
Grand Bahama's Jonquel Jones given hero's welcome while visiting home for Junkanoo Jam
VIDEO on Jonquel and her trip home to Grand Bahama
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Junkanoo Jam on Facebook
2012:
Bahamian athlete, Jonquel Jones interviewed by The Washington Post
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