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Gatorade 2021 - 2022: Player of the Year

Girls Track & Field - Florida

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GIRLS TRACK & FIELD

Alyssa Jones

Jumps/Sprints
MIAMI SOUTHRIDGE SENIOR HS
MIAMI, FLORIDA
SENIOR
Height: 5-FOOT-10
Press Release

Peak Performance

1st - 20ft, 11.75in

Class 3A state meet - long jump

1st - 23.49

Class 3A state meet - 200m

1st

New Balance Nationals Outdoor - long jump
“Alyssa Jones graduates as a highly decorated Florida track athlete, including a vice grip on the Gatorade award for three years running . Her performance at NBNO gave her 22.5 individual points at the meet and a national championship in the long jump. Amidst an extremely talented field of candidates in the Sunshine State this year, she is a worthy Gatorade winner.”
Erik Boal
an editor at Dyestat
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Athletic Excellence

The 5-foot-10 senior jumper and sprinter won four individual state titles at the Class 3A state meet this past season, headlined by a state-record leap of 20 feet, 11.75 inches in the long jump and a personal-best clocking of 23.49 seconds in the 200-meter dash, leading the Spartans to second place as a team. A three-time Gatorade Florida Girls Track & Field Player of the Year, Jones produced three national Top 15 performances among prep girls competitors this spring, including a U.S. No. 1 in the long jump (21-2.5), a national No. 7 in the high jump (5-11.75) and the nation’s No. 14 clocking in the 200 (23.49). She also ranked No. 50 in the 100-meter dash (11.70). An eight-time state champion, she collected four medals at June’s New Balance Nationals Outdoor, earning a gold and a silver in two relays—both of which produced 2022 national Top 15 prep times—while also grabbing a national title in the long jump along with a silver medal in the high jump. The three-time Miami Herald Track Athlete of the Year, she also owns an indoor national title in the long jump.

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Academic Achievement

Jones has maintained a 5.0 weighted GPA on a 4.0 scale in the classroom. She has signed a National Letter of Intent to compete on an athletic scholarship at Stanford University this fall.

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Exemplary Character

Jones has attained President’s Honor Roll status several times and has been recognized for her hard work, efforts and achievements at the Robert Morgan Educational Center Academic Awards Ceremony. A participant in her school’s Advanced Placement Capstone Seminar, she has served her community with more than 200 hours of volunteer service. As a member of the National Honor Society, she has participated in reading sessions with preschool students, she helped initiate an annual Senior Prom event at a local nursing home and she assisted in launching an annual two-day leadership conference for 9th grade students.