Grand Canyon University Athletics

Grand Canyon women's basketball has added Division I transfer Dana Jones, a 6-1 forward, most recently at Texas Southern, and 6-3 junior Julieh Clark, from Panola Junior College in Texas, for the 2015-16 season.

 

Jones is from Gulfport, Miss., and will be a redshirt-senior, athletically, and a post graduate student at GCU. She also played one season at East Carolina. During the 2014-15 season, Jones played in 29 games for the 19-11 TSU team and averaged 3.3 points and 3.6 rebounds per game.

"We are thrilled to have Dana use her last year of eligibility at GCU as a graduate transfer," said GCU coach Trent May. "Dana brings the IQ, toughness, experience and team-first basketball to our program."

"I chose GCU because I felt like it would be best for me on and off the court," said Jones. "I feel like I have an opportunity to do some great things with this team. GCU has a lot to offer me and I'm just ready to seize the opportunity."

Clark is from Denton, Tex. As a sophomore, she averaged 8.2 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.9 blocks per contest. In her freshman

season, she averaged 5.4 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks.

"I chose GCU because it was important to me to go somewhere with a foundation in Christ," Clark said. "When I was trying to decide whether to go or not I was really hung up on it being so far away from home, but when I came on my visit I was so welcomed and knew I was in the right place. I believe GCU has the right resources to help me fulfill my full potential as a student-athlete."

"Julieh brings more size and length to our frontline that we need," added May. "We look for her to compete and flourish in our defensive system."

Jones and Clark join previous additions, freshmen Khady Toure (6-3, C) and Oumy Ndoye (5-10, F), and junior college transfers Sabrea Coleman (5-7, PG), Alyx Bloom (5-5, PG) and Tanesha Daniels (6-1, F/C) to the 2015-16 recruiting class.