India Jones

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Class:
Senior
Events:
Distance
Hometown:
Wolfeboro, N.H.
High School:
Souhegan
Squadron:
22 Raptors

AIR FORCE HIGHLIGHTS

Two-Time NCAA Qualifier, 10,000-Meter Run (2024, 2025)

All-Mountain West, Cross Country (2024)

All-Mountain West, 10,000-Meter Run (2023)

CSC Academic All-American (2025)

JUNIOR YEAR | 2024-25: Qualified to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 10,000-meter run for the second-straight year…accounted for Air Force Top 10 times in every contested distance…clocked the fourth-fastest 10K time in Air Force history during a 33:39.58 performance at the Stanford Invitational…earned a top-25 finish at the NCAA West Prelim…competed in the 5000-meter run twice during the outdoor season…posted the program’s fifth-fastest time (16:13.50) at the Bryan Clay Invitational…also raced that distance twice indoors, clocking the seventh-fastest time in Academy history (16:1801, adjusted for altitude) during a fifth-place finish at the Mountain West Indoor Championships…also accounted for the eighth-fastest 3000-meter time in Air Force history (9:38.97a) at the conference meet…received the program’s Arne Arneson Award for Dedication…academic all-conference…MW Scholar-Athlete…named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team…claimed Academic All-District honors from the College Sports Communicators for the second-straight year …named a CSC Academic All-American (third-team).

SOPHOMORE YEAR | 2023-24: NCAA Qualifier in the 10,000-meter run…clocked that fourth-fastest time in program history (33:43.06) during a runner-up performance at the Stanford Invitational…that time is also a new Air Force Sophomore Class Record…scored for the Falcons in both the 5000-meter (season-best 16:38.95, seventh) and 10,000-meter (35:31.00, eighth) events at the Mountain West Outdoor Championships…competed in two meets during the indoor season…posted a career-best 3000-meter time of 9:32.82 (adjusted for altitude) to finish seventh at the MW Indoor Championships and move into eighth on the Academy’s all-time standings…academic all-conference…MW Scholar-Athlete…earned Academic All-District honors from the College Sports Communicators…named to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team.

FRESHMAN YEAR | 2022-23: Earned the team’s Newcomer of the Year award…set Air Force Freshman Class Records in both the 5000-meter and 10,000-meter events…became just the third all-conference honoree for the Falcons in the 10,000-meter run…clocked the sixth-fastest time in Academy history (34:16.66) to place third at the Mountain West Outdoor Championships and earn the program’s first podium finish in that event since 2017…also scored for Air Force in the 5000-meter run at the conference meet, clocking a career-best 16:19.46 to finish eighth…that is the sixth-fastest 5000-meter time in program history…also accounted for the Academy’s sixth-fastest indoor time at that distance, posting a career-best 16:32.76 at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational…first debuted on the Air Force Top 10 with a 10K finish of 34:53.73 (No. 8 all-time) at the Bryan Clay Invitational…registered the 22nd-fastest 1500-meter run in program history (4:32.83, adjusted for altitude) to finish third out of 52 runners in only appearance at the distance during the Don Caprioglio Early Bird Invitational…won the mile in collegiate debut at the Ralph Lindeman Invitational (5:05.65a)…ran on the 4x1600-meter relay that posted the third-fastest time in Academy history (19:46.58) during a fifth-place performance at the Drake Relays…academic all-conference selection…MW Scholar-Athlete.

HIGH SCHOOL: Souhegan High School…received the Coaches’ Award in both cross country and soccer…also earned the Souhegan Sportsmanship Award and Marine Scholastic Excellence Award.

PERSONAL: Full name is India Kathleen Jones…has a twin sister, Georgia, who was a member of the cross country and track teams at Army West Point, before graduating in 2024…majoring in biology and earning a minor in sustainability…named to the Dean’s List…serving as A1 Staff…attended Norwich University during the 2021-22 academic year…Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) cross country champion…also received the league’s Rookie of the Year and Performer of the Year awards in cross country…traveled to Costa Rica over the summer to complete tropical ecological research through the Academy’s Cadet Summer Research Program (CSRP)…member of Cadet Squadron 22.