The 6-foot, 155-pound senior was the nation’s only prep runner to race to regional championship victories this past season, earning invites to both national championship meets in the process. Jones placed 10th at each national meet to earn All-America status at both. He also paced the Huskies to a seventh-place finish as a team with his win at the MHSAA LP Division 3 Final.
Jones has maintained an unweighted 3.87 GPA in the classroom. He has signed a National Letter of Intent to run on scholarship at Wake Forest University this fall.
Jones has volunteered locally assisting the elderly in a number of community service capacities and is a member of Benzie Central’s National Honor Society chapter, the Interact Club and the Science Olympiad.