{"id":6204,"date":"2011-06-15T09:18:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=6204"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:18:09","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T14:18:09","slug":"lady-bears-mj-named-big-12-sportsperson-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2011\/06\/lady-bears-mj-named-big-12-sportsperson-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Bears&#8217; MJ named Big 12 Sportsperson of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"mj-sign-june11\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/mj-sign-june11.jpg\" alt=\"Melissa Jones sign\" width=\"225\" height=\"283\" \/>Throughout her career as a Lady Bear, Melissa Jones has been a fan favorite. For some, it was because of her play on the court; Jones earned <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2011\/03\/celebrating-the-lady-bears-2010-11-season\/\" target=\"_blank\">all-America honors<\/a> in 2010-11. For others, it was her hustle and competitive spirit &#8212; so much so that head coach Kim Mulkey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/041511aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">created a team award in her honor<\/a>. For still others, it was her giving personality, as seen in her volunteer work locally and her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/alumni\/magazine\/0902\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=85804\" target=\"_blank\">international mission efforts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Big 12 Conference looked at all of her accomplishments and named Jones one of two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/061411aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">2010-11 Big 12 Sportspersons of the Year<\/a>. Started in 2001, the honor annually recognizes one male and one female student-athlete who displayed extraordinary degrees of sportsmanship and\/or community service. Jones is the third Baylor Bear to be so honored in the last eight years, joining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/w-baskbl\/spec-rel\/072704aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jessika Stratton<\/a> (2003-04) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/spec-rel\/052808aab.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mamadou Diene<\/a> (2007-08). (<a href=\"http:\/\/edge.baylor.edu\/media\/142238\/142238-audio.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to MJ talk about the honor here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Though she has completed her basketball eligibility, Jones isn&#8217;t through performing on the Ferrell Center floor. This fall, the 5-11 Jones &#8212; an all-state middle blocker in high school &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/_254sports\/headlines\/Baylors_Jones_Added_To_Volleyball_Roster_121645524.html\" target=\"_blank\">will join the Baylor volleyball team<\/a> as she begins work on a master&#8217;s degree. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/alumni\/magazine\/0904\/news.php?action=story&amp;story=95760\" target=\"_blank\">Read more on Jones&#8217; past, present and future in this feature<\/a> from the latest issue of <em>Baylor Magazine<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Could Baylor ask for a better representative than Melissa Jones?<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, MJ!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout her career as a Lady Bear, Melissa Jones has been a fan favorite. For some, it was because of her play on the court; Jones earned all-America honors in 2010-11. For others, it was her hustle and competitive spirit &#8212; so much so that head coach Kim Mulkey created a team award in her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}