Former Aberdeen High basketball standout Brionna Jones, of the Big Ten champion Maryland Terrapins, was named this week to the All-Big Ten First Team in voting by the conference's 12 coaches.
Jones, a 6-3 sophomore who plays forward and center, was voted to the Second Team by members of the media.
The Lady Terrapins, 27-2 overall and 18-0 in the conference, are set to play in the Big Ten Tournament at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill., where they are the top seed. Maryland, only the third team in history to go undefeated in conference play, will play its first tournament game today (Friday). The championship is Sunday at 7 p.m.
This season, Jones improved the most of all the Terrapins, according to the Maryland Athletic Department, nearly doubling her scoring and rebounding numbers from a year ago.
Jones has averaged 12.6 points and 9.0 rebounds, which are both more than her totals from her freshman season of 6.9 points and 4.5 rebounds. Jones is third in the league and fourth in the NCAA with her field goal percentage of 59.4 percent (148 of 249).
As a true freshman last year, Jones played in all the team's games, starting 13. She played particularly well in the NCAA tournament, where the Lady Terrapins made it to the Final Four semifinal round.
Jones' teammates and fellow sophomores Lexie Brown and Shatori Walker-Kimbrough were named to the All-Big Ten First Team, in voting by the coaches and the media, while redshirt senior Laurin Mincy was named to the Second Team by both.
Lady Terrapins coach Brenda Frese was named the league's Coach of the Year.
A resident of Havre de Grace, Jones led the Aberdeen Lady Eagles to their first state championship in 2011-12 as a junior. She suffered a season-ending knee injury in January of her senior year, but the Lady Eagles still repeated as state champs.
Jones' younger sister, Stephanie, is a junior playing at Aberdeen this year and has verbally committed to attend Maryland.