Wake Forest Athletics
Jones and Beck Named To ACC Volleyball All-Academic Team
2/23/2010 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Feb. 23, 2010
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC -
Wake Forest junior Kelsey Jones and freshman Andrea Beck were named to the 2009 All-ACC Academic Volleyball Team, as announced by the conference office, Tuesday.
To be eligible for consideration, a student-athlete must have earned a 3.00 grade point average for the fall semester and maintained a 3.00 cumulative average during her academic career.
For Jones, it is her second All-Academic Team honor as she also took home the award as a freshman in 2007.
A communications major from Ada, Mich., Jones had a tremendous season in 2009 considering she underwent off-season hip surgery just four months prior to the start of the year. She led the team and finished fifth in the ACC with 1,100 assists for an average of 10.28 assists per set. Jones also averaged 2.43 digs per set and was third in the conference with 14 double-doubles.
On Oct. 30, against Maryland, Jones recorded her 3,000th career assist and is now fourth all-time in school history with 3,442 assists. She is also just 161 digs shy of becoming just the second Demon Deacon to notch 3,000 assists and 1,000 career digs.
Beck made an immediate impact on the team as a freshman, starting all but one match and playing in 115 of the 118 sets. She topped the squad with a .254 hitting percentage and was third on the team with 257 kills. She was also second on the team with a total 96 blocks.
The Winston-Salem, NC, native recorded 10 or more kills 11 times in 2009 and tallied a season-best seven total blocks three times. She opened the year strong with 10 kills and a .500 hitting percentage in her first collegiate match against Charlotte. But her best performance may have come in the four-set win over Maryland on Oct. 30, when she notched 15 kills and hit a solid .478 with four blocks.
Beck and Jones are two of just four Demon Deacons to earn ACC All-Academic team honors. The conference started the award in the 2005-06 school year. Erin Borhart and Natalie Mullikin earned the inaugural honor in 2005 as Mullikin went on to become the only Demon Deacon to receive the honor all four years. Jones is now a two-time honoree and Beck, Borhart and Kristin White have each received the award once.
