Stewart Jones, a junior distance runner on the men’s track and field team, earned the Wheeling Jesuit Men’s Athlete of the Week award for his record breaking performance at the Duke Invitational in Durham, N.C.
The Weir High School standout from Weirton, W.Va. replaced his WJU standard in the 1,500 meter run. On March 17 at the Wake Forest Open, Jones rewrote Jesuit track and field history with a time of 3:57.03, and in Durham, N.C. on April 7, he topped that performace, finishing with a time of 3:56.48.