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Diamond Selected Preseason All-SIAC 2nd Team, Wildcats Slated 4th

10/27/2021 3:03:00 PM

By: Chris Myers
SIAC Release
ATLANTA, Ga. – Following a good building year of the first winning campaign in eight seasons, the Wildcats have the talent in place for more. Diamond Jones will lead the 2021-22 Fort Valley State women's basketball team as she was named to the Preseason All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Second Team, while the team was slated fourth in the East.
 
The point guard from Clarksville, Tenn., led FVSU to a 6-5 mark in the shortened 2021 season for the first above .500 team finish since a 15-13 mark of the 2012-13 season. The All-SIAC Second Team pick averaged 15.5 points, 2.5 assists, 2.3 rebounds and 2.8 steals in her first Wildcats year. Jones received Black College Sports Network All-American status as she posted a season-high 20 points at Allen University, scored at least 17-plus points five other games and pumped in 24 from 3-point range.
 
In the team predictions, FVSU garnered fourth in the SIAC East ratings voted on by the league's coaches and athletics communications directors. Defending champion Benedict College was voted to the top position, while Savannah State and Clark Atlanta rounded out the top three.
 
FVSU returns to the court for the first time on Saturday afternoon, Nov. 13, in a noon exhibition contest at Georgia Southern.
 
2021-22 SIAC Women's Basketball Preseason Awards
 
First Team
Ay'Anna Bey* Benedict Senior Forward Blackwood, NJ
Keondra Archie* Benedict Senior Forward Eastover, S.C.
Le'Andrea Gillis* Savannah State Junior Guard Adrian, Ga.
India Blakely* Tuskegee Senior Guard Troy, Ala.
Jutoreyia Willis Tuskegee Senior Guard Chattanooga, Tenn.
 
Second Team
Ayanna Armstead Benedict Senior Guard Coral Spring, Fla.
Wykeria Johnson-Kelly Benedict Senior Guard Franklinville, NJ
Amari Heard Savannah State Sophomore Guard Lawrenceville, Ga.
Ashiala Jackson Tuskegee Redshirt Junior Forward Merrillville, Ind.
Diamond Jones Fort Valley State Junior Guard Clarksville, Tenn.
 
*Indicates returner for 2019-20 SIAC All-Conference Team
 
Preseason Superlative Awards
Preseason Player of the Year
Ay'Anna Bey, Benedict
 
Defensive Player of the Year
Jutoreyia Willis, Tuskegee
 
Women's Basketball Preseason Rankings by Division
East Division
1.    Benedict
2.    Savannah State
3.    Clark Atlanta
4.    Fort Valley State
5.    Albany State
6.    Allen*
7.    Edward Waters*
 
West Division
1.    Tuskegee
2.    Miles
3.    Kentucky State
4.    Central State
5.    Lane
6.    LeMoyne-Owen
7.    Spring Hill
 
 
*Allen University and Edward Waters University are first-year provisional members of NCAA Division II and are not eligible for SIAC nor NCAA football postseason competition.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
-Wildcats-
 
 
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