Articles Tagged: Ava Jones

Women’s basketball: Ava Jones, former Iowa recruit who suffered severe injuries after being hit by an impaired driver, announces Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis.

Iowa women’s basketball announced that Ava Jones will medically retire. She will remain on a scholarship that will no longer count toward the program’s maximum of 15.

NCAA women’s basketball tournament: When Iowa recruit Ava Jones was severely injured last summer, Louisville Coach Jeff Walz stepped up, for Lisa Bluder and for the Jones family.

Iowa women’s basketball recruit Ava Jones scored an uncontested left-handed layup on the first possession of Tuesday’s game. The senior committed to Iowa on July 3. Two days later, in Louisville, Ky., she and her family were struck by an impaired driver.

Monika Czinano joined Caitlin Clark (and three others) in the Iowa women’s basketball 2,000-point club, McKenna Warnock and Hannah Stuelke make major contributions and No. 12 Iowa whipped Purdue, 83-68. A crowd of nearly 12,000 included signee Ava Jones.

Iowa women’s basketball signee Ava Jones is a story of both heartbreak and hope. Five months after an incident that severely injured her and her mother and killed her father, she begins surgery Monday with a long-term vision of playing for the Hawkeyes.

Iowa women’s basketball coach Lisa Bluder talked for the first time about her recruiting class of 2023, including Ava Jones, who is recovering from a tragic incident last summer.

Iowa women’s basketball commit Ava Jones tore all four major ligaments in both knees, Lisa Bluder said Thursday. Doctors also are “really working on her brain improvement” three months after a vehicle struck her and her family.

Two days after committing to the Iowa women’s basketball program, Ava Jones was seriously injured in a crash in Louisville, Ky.

In Ava Jones, a versatile 6-foot-2 forward from Kansas, Iowa women’s basketball got its second 2023 commitment in less than a week.