VIDEO: More from Media Day with Jordan Jones and Kayla Lewis
Friday, October 14, 2011 | Women's Basketball
GatorVision Online sat down with senior sharpshooter Jordan Jones (Suwanee, Ga.) and talented sophomore Kayla Lewis (Decatur, Ga.) during the team's 2011-12 Media Day.
Jones was UF's leading scorer in 2010-11, when she topped the 1,000-career point plateau for her career (626 points in Gator career). Entering the 2011-12 season, Jones' 3-point percentage is tied for sixth-highest in a Gator career (32.6%, 127-389), while ranking sixth for made three-pointers (127), eighth for three-point attempts (389), fifth free throw percentage (78.9%, 105-133) and owns the longest single-season streak of consecutive games with a 3-pointer (23 in 2009-10), as well as the second-longest overall streak for consecutive games with a 3-pointer (23 in 2009-10). Last year, Jones played in 33 of 35 games and started and scored in every game she played.
Jones was voted team co-captain by her teammates, as she led 2010-11 Gators in scoring (10.2 ppg), three-pointers (72, tied for seventh in UF history) and minutes played (32.6). Her 3-point percentage of 38.7 (72-186) ranked as second-highest in UF season history. Fittingly, she scored her 1,000th-career point on a three-pointer with 1:47 remaining in the first half of the Southeastern Conference Tournament win against Arkansas, finishing the game with 11 points and exactly 1,000 career points. In the last eight games of the season averaged 47.5 percent (19-40) from the three-point arc.
Lewis' freshman season was limited due to injury, as she appeared in 16 games, but missed 19 in 2010-11. The 2010 Miss Georgia Basketball, Lewis collected at least one rebound in every game she played except two. At the time she was diagnosed with the stress fracture, she ranked as UF's seventh-leading rebounder (3.4 pg) and third-best guard on the glass.
Lewis tallied a season-high 12 points in the win against Harvard (Dec. 7), shooting 3-of-4 from the floor and 5-of-9 from the free throw line and grabbed a career-high eight rebounds against Brown (Dec. 5). She came off the bench for the first time in the win against Old Dominion (Nov. 30) and she responded with a career-best and team-leading 12 points, hitting 6-of-10 from the field. Her first career double-figure scoring game was a 10-point performance at DePaul, when she had tipped in what appeared to be the game-winning shot, but it was waved off as it came just after the final buzzer. Lewis was the first true freshman to start a season-opener since Sha Brooks in 2005-06.
