Hall of Fame

XULA women's basketball

Antasha Jones

  • Class
    1998
  • Induction
    2023
  • Sport(s)
    Women's Basketball
•  From Memphis, Tenn., and Mitchell High School
•  Played women's basketball for XULA from 1993-97
•  Program career rankings:
— No. 1 with 420 steals
— No. 2 with 415 made free throws
— No. 2 with 631 free-throw attempts
— No. 4 with 1,799 points
— No. 4 with 1,510 field-goal attempts
— No. 5 with 662 made field goals
— No. 5 with 446 assists
— No. 6 with 132 games played
— No. 9 with 13.6 points per game
— No. 9 with 70 blocked shots
— No. 14 (tie) with 631 rebounds
— No. 23 with a .438 field-goal percentage
•  The only XULA basketball player, female or male, to reach 1,000 points, 500 rebounds and 400 assists in a career
•  One of two Gold Nuggets — the other is Whitney Gathright — to reach 1,000 points, 400 rebounds and 400 assists in a career
•  NAIA Division I All-America as a junior (1995-96)
•  All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference each of her final three seasons
•  As a senior (1996-97), she shared GCAC Player of the Year with teammate Kimberly Simpkins
•  All-Louisiana honorable mention as a sophomore (1994-95)
•  All-GCAC Tournament as a junior
•  Shares program season record for steals in a season: 126 in 1996-97
•  The program’s first player to appear in four NAIA national tournaments
•  One of two players — the other is 2022 XULA Hall of Fame inductee Cassee Davis — to reach 30 points in a game at NAIA nationals . . . Jones scored 30 as a sophomore in an 87-75 first-round victory March 16, 1995, against Salem International
•  During her tenure the program was 110-22 (.833) and won four GCAC regular-season championships — shared in 1993-94, outright the final three years — and four GCAC tournaments
•  Post-XULA: Teacher and coach in Memphis Shelby County schools for 24 years
•  Now known as Antasha Jefferson
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