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Last Updated: Feb 6, 2017 - 2:32:04 PM |
A former student of
Grand Bahama Catholic High School
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Jonquel Jones is now playing basketball at Riverdale Baptist School in Maryland, USA and lives with her coach Diane Richardson. Jonquel is believed to be the third Bahamian female to earn a Division I basketball scholarship directly out of high school. The Washington Post did a major feature with photo and video interview.
The Washington Post writes:
Jonquel Jones left the Bahamas to play basketball at Riverdale Baptist, and she’s developed into one of the area’s top players. This week, she heads back to the Bahamas for a tournament.
Growing up in the Bahamas, Jonquel Jones so badly wanted to come to the United States to play high school basketball that she would cry whenever occasional workout partner Yolett McPhee-McCuin would leave the islands to return to America.
McPhee-McCuin was the first Bahamian women’s player to sign with a Division I college out of high school, and on trips home, she would regale Jones with stories about the vibrant basketball scene for females in the States.
Jonquel Jones of Grand Bahama Island hugs her house mother and coach. Jonquel is believed to be the third Bahamian female to earn a Division I basketball scholarship directly out of high school. The Washington Post did a major feature with photo and video interview. Photo: The Washington Post
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“She didn’t care where I was going, she just wanted to come,” said McPhee-McCuin, who played at Florida Atlantic and Rhode Island. “She just wanted that opportunity.”
Jones got her chance three years ago when she moved in with Riverdale Baptist Coach Diane Richardson, who became her legal guardian. Touted on the team’s Web site as a female Kevin Durant, Jones has developed into one of the best players in the Washington area, a smooth and lanky guard-forward who has earned a scholarship to Clemson, where she will play for McPhee-McCuin, one of the Tigers’ assistants.
But Jones’s most lasting basketball accomplishment could come this week. She and her Riverdale team, top-ranked in The Post and No. 6 in USA Today, traveled to the Bahamas as a special entrant in an annual tournament there that began Wednesday.
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