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Class:
Senior

Hometown:
Toldeo, Ohio

High School:
St. John's Jesuit

Height / Weight:
6-0 / 187

Event:
100/200

JONES ABBREVIATED
High School
St. John's Jesuit High
Coach Steve Spenthoff
Career Bests
All-America
60 - 6.84
100 - 10.67/10.62w
200 - 21.45
UT all-time top-10 list
4x100 relay (Jones, Wells, Stevenson, Williams), 6th, 38.98, 2008
SEC Results-Outdoor
2004-100 prelims 10.67 (13th)
4x100 relay 40.17 (4th)
2008-100 prelims 10.81 (23rd)
200 prelims 22.15 (29th)
Mideast Regional Results-Outdoor
2004-4x100 relay 40.84 (4th)
2008-4x100 relay 38.98 (1st)
NCAA Results-Outdoor
2008-4x100 relay prelims 39.24 (3rd)

Major-Sociology.

2008 Outdoor-Earned All-America honors after leading off Tennessee's 4x100 relay in the preliminary round (June 11) ... Took the baton for the first leg of Tennessee's victorious 4x100 relay team at the NCAA Mideast Region Championships (May 31) ... Quartet's time of 38.98 ranks sixth on Tennessee's all-time performance list in the event and gave the Vols' their first regional title in the 4x100 relay ... Anchored Tennessee's 4x100 relay team to a third-place finish at the Tiger Track Classic, where he also finished the 100 in 10.94 and the 200 in 21.86 (April 5) ... Ran his personal-best time of 21.45 while taking runner-up honors in the 200 and a season-best, wind-legal time of 10.76 in the 100 in front of the home crowd at the Smoky Mountain Twilight (May 6) ... Finished 10th in the 200 at the season-opening Baldy Castillo Invitational (March 22) ... Placed ninth in the 200 with a then-season-best time of 21.82 and 10th in the 100 in 10.98 at the Vanderbilt Invitational (April 19).

2008 Indoor-Ran to a personal-best clocking of 6.84 during the preliminaries of the 60 at the Clemson Opener (Nov. 30) ... Finished 19th in the 200 with a season-best time of 22.25 at the Rod McCravy Memorial while also finishing 19th in the 60 with a 6.96 clocking (Feb. 2) ... Recorded a 15th-place finish in the 200 and finished 17th in the 60 at the Big Ten-SEC Challenge (Jan. 19) ... Finished his only 55 of the season in 6.60 at the Virginia Tech Invitational (Jan. 11).

2004 Outdoor-Recorded his personal-best clocking of 10.67 in the 100 preliminaries at the SEC Outdoor Championships, his first conference championship meet (May 15) ... Lettered after leading off Tennessee's fourth-place 4x100 relay at the conference championship meet (May 16) ... Ran the first leg on Tennessee's fourth-place 4x100 relay at the NCAA Mideast Regional (May 29) ... Ran to a personal-best clocking of 21.70 in the 200 and a wind-aided time of 10.71 while finishing fourth in the 100 at the Knoxville Invitational (April 25) ... Ran a then-personal-best time of 21.88 while finishing third in the 200 at the season-opening Snowbird Invitational (March 6) ... Also anchored Tennessee's third place 4x400 relay at the Snowbird Invitational ... Recorded a then-personal-best time of 10.87 during the 100 preliminaries at the adidas Raleigh Relays (March 26) ... Led off Tennessee's second-place 4x100 relay the next day at the Raleigh Relays ... Finished eighth in the 200 at the Yellow Jacket Invitational (April 3) ... Lowered his personal best time in the 100 again to 10.82 during the Sea Ray Relays (April 9) ... Led off Tennessee's victorious 4x100 relay at the Sea Ray Relays (April 10) ... Ran the first leg on Tennessee's 4x100 relay that recorded the sixth-fastest preliminary time at the Penn Relays (April 23).

2004 Indoor-Finished fifth with a time of 7.06 in the 60 at the Virginia Tech Invitational, his first competition as a Vol (Jan. 24) ... Also raced the 200 at the Virginia Tech Invitational, finishing 16th ... Recorded his personal-best clocking of 6.93 in the 60 during the preliminaries at the McCravy Memorial (Jan. 31) ... Clocked a season-best 22.26 in the 200 at the McCravy Memorial ... Ran the eighth-fastest preliminary time in the 55 at the Tennessee Invitational (Feb. 20).

High School-City, district and regional finalist ... Four-year varsity letterman ... Helped team to a runner-up finish in the city championship ... Team made a regional finals appearance ... Played power forward as a freshman at St. John's, averaging eight points and 14 rebounds a game.

Personal-Full name is Blake Camron Jones ... Born Nov. 27, 1984 in Toledo, Ohio ... Parents are Charles and Kym Jones ... Family also includes brother Ralphael and sister Amber.

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