Women’s basketball junior Jonquel Jones was nominated for the 2015 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Division I All-America Team, the WBCA announced Wednesday.
Jones is GW’s first All-America regional finalist since Kimberly Beck in 2008. She is one of 12 nominees from Region I, and one of 52 candidates overall.
Jones was the only player in the Atlantic 10 conference to average a double-double. She was sixth in the nation with 12.5 rebounds per game and sixth in the conference with 15.3 rebounds per game. She also ranked fourth in the league with 1.9 blocks per game and tenth with a 47.8 percent shooting percentage.
This would not be Jones’s first recognition of the season. She was a one of 30 midseason candidates for the Naismith Trophy, won both A-10 Player and Defensive Player of the Year and won seven A-10 Player of the Week awards during the season. She was also named Most Outstanding Player of the A-10 Championship.
The 2015 WBCA Division I Coaches’ All-America Team will be announced on April 4.