Ava Jones Medically Retired on June 7, 2024. Plus Other Updates on Her & Her Family
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This is a really good video update from from KSN News, an NBC affiliate out of Wichita, KS. See link below to watch. That's her grandma in the picture below, who has been driving her to where she needs to be.
Some updates from this story:
* She's had surgery on her right knee. Surgery on her left knee will be at the end of January.
* It discusses her NIL deal with RayGun Apparel. 4 shirts are available for purchase; see pic below. Link to purchase: https://www.raygunsite.com/pages/search-results-page?q=ava jones
* The goal remains to play for the Hawkeyes (hints at redshirting in 2023 with the goal of suiting up in 2024).
LINK to Video:
www.ksn.com
Some updates from this story:
* She's had surgery on her right knee. Surgery on her left knee will be at the end of January.
* It discusses her NIL deal with RayGun Apparel. 4 shirts are available for purchase; see pic below. Link to purchase: https://www.raygunsite.com/pages/search-results-page?q=ava jones
* The goal remains to play for the Hawkeyes (hints at redshirting in 2023 with the goal of suiting up in 2024).
LINK to Video:
Nickerson’s Ava Jones signs T-shirt deal
NICKERSON, Kan. (KSNW) — Ava Jones, a Kansas basketball player who was critically injured alongside her family six months ago, has signed a T-shirt deal with a sports apparel brand. Ava’s sto…
www.ksn.com
The GoFundMe has raised $162,100 to date. Over 2,100 people have donated.
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Donate to Jones Family Fund, organized by Natalie Martin
On July 5th, while traveling for Ava's AAU basketball tournament, Ava and her parents, Amy and Trey, … Natalie Martin needs your support for Jones Family Fund
The GoFundMe has raised $162,100 to date. Over 2,100 people have donated.
Donate to Jones Family Fund, organized by Natalie Martin
On July 5th, while traveling for Ava's AAU basketball tournament, Ava and her parents, Amy and Trey, … Natalie Martin needs your support for Jones Family Fund
While absolutely wonderful and generous, sadly, unless they have Cadillac insurance, this likely will be a drop in the bucket. Continued best wishes for her and her family.
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Since she works for the state, my guess is her plan would be something like 80/20. Not bad for most people but in this kind of scenario, you’re right, a drop in the bucket. Broken system.
As noted above, she had surgery on her right knee on Nov 21; she will have surgery on her left knee at the end of this month. And the goal remains to play for the Hawkeyes (the story linked a few posts above hints at redshirting in 2023 with the goal of suiting up in 2024).
This is pretty cool.
This is pretty cool.
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Kansas Pregame covers high school sports in the state of Kansas.
Ava's mom is the score keeper. Each opposing team player delivered a flower to Amy Jones at the scorer's table before taking the court.
Pretty cool night for the Jones family.
3 videos to watch:
Pretty cool night for the Jones family.
3 videos to watch:
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Classy! Obviously I’d rather she not have to go through this but the reaction and actions around her restore some of one’s faith in humanity.
May we all do more of it and focus more on it.
All kinda tears here! Thank you for posting, Fran!
I have a couple questions for those of you in the know:
Why is O'Grady not playing. She did pretty well last year but didn't do much so far this year. Maybe that's the reason.
How is Kylie Feuerbach doing on her rehab? Maybe a moderator could get an interview with her.
Why is O'Grady not playing. She did pretty well last year but didn't do much so far this year. Maybe that's the reason.
How is Kylie Feuerbach doing on her rehab? Maybe a moderator could get an interview with her.
ESPN took notice, and rightfully so
I think the more athletic Stuelke is getting her minutes. I hope that she sticks with it though. We'll need her next year when MC finally hangs up her shoes.
When was the 2nd surgery? I thought it was for the end of January. Also, why the 3rd surgery on her left ACL? Sorry I'm confused what with old age etc.
Apparently the 2nd surgery just happened recently (this was reported last night). I, too, thought there would be one surgery to fix the one knee and another surgery to fix the other knee. However, I don't know the details on what each surgery entails or entailed.
Here's better information.
This was posted by Amy Jones, the mother, around 7 pm last night on their Facebook page.
Knee surgery #2 is in the books. Ava was under for about 5 hours and everything went as planned. She will be back for a third knee surgery in six or so weeks to repair the left ACL.
Here's better information.
This was posted by Amy Jones, the mother, around 7 pm last night on their Facebook page.
Knee surgery #2 is in the books. Ava was under for about 5 hours and everything went as planned. She will be back for a third knee surgery in six or so weeks to repair the left ACL.
I'm not a medical person, but a friend of mine (this has been a 'few' years ago) basically shredded his knee and they did the repairs in separate surgeries there too. Something about structural integrity of the joint or something like that was the reason for not doing it all at once. I realize situations are different, but I'm just tossing this out there as a possible explanation as to why it wasn't "2 knees, 2 surgeries" as many thought it would be.
Keep pushing Ava!!
The grandmother wrote that Paxton helps the pain go away.
This is from yesterday.
Check this out & watch:
Check this out & watch:
If you haven't already, take a look at the surgical scars just on the right leg.
Ava is so damn strong. She gets run over, she loses her dad, and now she battles through all of these surgeries and rehab (both cognitive and physical).
These videos were posted yesterday
I appreciate these updates. Really rooting for this young lady whether she ever plays for Iowa or not….
I'm not optimistic she'll ever play again save for maybe a few minutes on her SR day. But I pray to God she proves me wrong. I do know she will be a great role model and a player-coach from the bench. She will be a great spokesperson for Iowa, and she will be loved by the fans for just being the awesome person we all know she is.
those 2 ladies are a lot tougher and a lot more forgiving than I would ever be.
they need to send that driver away for life.
honestly, i just hope for 2 things:
1) her cognitive abilities come back so that she doesn't struggle with college course work
2) she can walk normally again
On Tuesday Ava celebrated her 18th birthday.
