Senior track athlete Jessica Jones and freshman women’s tennis player Joanna Stralka were named IUP Athletes of the Week yesterday. It’s the seventh and final edition of the IUP weekly awards announced following the cancellation of spring sports.
Jones has a 3.97 cumulative grade point average as an applied mathematics and studio art double major. She’s from South Park High School in Allegheny County.
Jones took a redshirt during the indoor track season after coming off a successful outdoor campaign in 2019. In her last action on the track she finished third with a pair of personal bests in both the 800 and 1500 meters at the 2019 PSAC Outdoor Championships.
The 2018 PSAC Champion Scholar for Indoor Track & Field, Jones has also competed in cross country each of the last three fall seasons.
Stralka is from Stockholm, Sweden and owns a 4.0 grade point average as a biology pre-med major.
Stralka won the women’s singles title at the 2019 PSAC Championships in the fall. She finished the year with a 19-2 singles record, including a 13-1 mark in tournament play and 6-1 at the No. 1 spot in dual matches.
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