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Georgia Jones Named Patriot League Women’s Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year
November 08, 2021 | Women's Cross Country
BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Sophomore Georgia Jones has been selected as the 2021 Patriot League Women's Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year announced on Monday. Jones is the second Cadet in program history to win the distinguished honor.
Jones, a native of Mont Vernon, N.H., followed her breakout freshman campaign, in which was she was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Year, with a record-setting sophomore season. She has been the Cadets' top runner in every race that she has participated in, including winning three events, and set personal records in three different race distances.
Jones, a two-time Patriot League Runner of the Week, opened the season with a first place finish in the dual meet at Maine. She set a PR in the 5K at the Battle in Beantown, one of the nation's top collegiate invitationals, with a time of 17:36.4 on September 24. At the Paul Short Run one week later, she helped the Black Knights earned a seventh-place finish for the program's best finish since 1997. Jones set a program-best time at a 6K race with a time of 20:14.6 to place ninth out of 342 runners.
In the annual Star Meet with Navy, she won the race with a time of 19:20.9 for a new personal-record in the 5.6K. She captured the 2021 Patriot League Individual Championship to become the third Cadet to win the individual title and first since 1996.
"Georgia Jones is quietly putting together the kind of statistics that will clearly define her as the best female distance runner to ever run for West Point," said head coach Mike Smith. "Her Patriot League title last weekend was the first individual title for an Army woman since 1996. Her performance at the Paul Short meet led our team to the best team performance ever for an Army team and her time of 20:14 was the fastest 6K performance ever for an Army athlete. Georgia is equally accomplished in the classroom and in her leadership pillar. She embraces the ideals of the Academy and pursues excellence in everything that she does. She is only scratching the surface of her potential and I am confident that I will be writing about her often in the future and that I will struggle to find more superlatives to describe her accomplishments. In my opinion Georgia Jones is one of the brightest stars at the Academy."
Jones is an international affairs major with a GPA of 4.075 in the spring term, which contributed to her overall academic GPA of 4.017. She wears the star (3.67+ academic GPA for 2+ consecutive semesters) and is in the top 10% of her class. Jones' cumulative GPA is 3.952. Jones also tutors within West Point's Center for Enhanced Performance (CEP) and is College Reading & Learning (CRLA) certified in addition to providing tutoring in physics.
Jones joins Catherine Gaffigan (1993, 1994) as the only Cadets to be named Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
To be eligible for the Scholar-Athlete of the Year award and Academic All-Patriot League Team, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA and be a starter or key player in her sport. Freshmen or students in their first academic year at their school are not eligible for the honor.
Jones, a native of Mont Vernon, N.H., followed her breakout freshman campaign, in which was she was named the Patriot League Rookie of the Year, with a record-setting sophomore season. She has been the Cadets' top runner in every race that she has participated in, including winning three events, and set personal records in three different race distances.
Jones, a two-time Patriot League Runner of the Week, opened the season with a first place finish in the dual meet at Maine. She set a PR in the 5K at the Battle in Beantown, one of the nation's top collegiate invitationals, with a time of 17:36.4 on September 24. At the Paul Short Run one week later, she helped the Black Knights earned a seventh-place finish for the program's best finish since 1997. Jones set a program-best time at a 6K race with a time of 20:14.6 to place ninth out of 342 runners.
In the annual Star Meet with Navy, she won the race with a time of 19:20.9 for a new personal-record in the 5.6K. She captured the 2021 Patriot League Individual Championship to become the third Cadet to win the individual title and first since 1996.
"Georgia Jones is quietly putting together the kind of statistics that will clearly define her as the best female distance runner to ever run for West Point," said head coach Mike Smith. "Her Patriot League title last weekend was the first individual title for an Army woman since 1996. Her performance at the Paul Short meet led our team to the best team performance ever for an Army team and her time of 20:14 was the fastest 6K performance ever for an Army athlete. Georgia is equally accomplished in the classroom and in her leadership pillar. She embraces the ideals of the Academy and pursues excellence in everything that she does. She is only scratching the surface of her potential and I am confident that I will be writing about her often in the future and that I will struggle to find more superlatives to describe her accomplishments. In my opinion Georgia Jones is one of the brightest stars at the Academy."
Jones is an international affairs major with a GPA of 4.075 in the spring term, which contributed to her overall academic GPA of 4.017. She wears the star (3.67+ academic GPA for 2+ consecutive semesters) and is in the top 10% of her class. Jones' cumulative GPA is 3.952. Jones also tutors within West Point's Center for Enhanced Performance (CEP) and is College Reading & Learning (CRLA) certified in addition to providing tutoring in physics.
Jones joins Catherine Gaffigan (1993, 1994) as the only Cadets to be named Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
To be eligible for the Scholar-Athlete of the Year award and Academic All-Patriot League Team, a student-athlete must have at least a 3.20 cumulative GPA and be a starter or key player in her sport. Freshmen or students in their first academic year at their school are not eligible for the honor.
2021 Women's Cross Country Academic All-Patriot League Team
| Georgia Jones | Army West Point | So |
| Corinne Batsu | Boston University | Sr. |
| Andrea Claeson | Boston University | Jr. |
| Sophia Manners | Colgate | Sr. |
| Eve Feuerbach | Holy Cross | Jr. |
| Elizabeth Sullivan | Navy | Jr. |
| Maddie Warrender | Navy | Sr. |
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