AMERICAN import Haley Jones became the inaugural winner of Geelong United\u2019s Most Valuable Player award on Tuesday this week at Mount Duneed Estate.<\/p>\n
The versatile 23-year-old basketballer played 21 games for United this season and knocked down 300 points.<\/p>\n
\u201cComing here, I was really nervous. It was my first overseas gig,\u201d the WNBA player said of joining the new WNBL club.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think in the past few seasons I have struggled with my love of the game and love of being in the gym.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing with these girls, and I tell them how much I love them all the time, but I really do.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey helped me regain my passion for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
At six-foot-one, Jones is also a forward\/guard for Atlanta Dream and was taken at pick 6 in the 2023 WNBA draft.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Elissa Brett won Defensive Player of the Year in her first WNBL season.<\/p>\n
Hannah Hank claimed the Players\u2019 Player award as voted by her teammates and vice-captain Jaz Shelley took out the People\u2019s Choice Award as voted by the wider community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
AMERICAN import Haley Jones became the inaugural winner of Geelong United\u2019s Most Valuable Player award on Tuesday this week at Mount Duneed Estate. The versatile 23-year-old basketballer played 21 games for United this season and knocked down 300 points. \u201cComing here, I was really nervous. It was my first overseas gig,\u201d the WNBA player said […]<\/p>\n