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2022-23 Tufts University Jumbos Women's Basketball Roster

32 Joelle Zelony

32 Joelle Zelony

  • Position:
    Guard
  • Height:
    5-9
  • Class:
    Senior
  • Hometown:
    Atlanta, Ga.
  • High School:
    Pace Academy
  • Major:
    Economics

Summary

Biography

Awards
NESCAC All-Academic Team (2021,2022,2023)
Academic All-District Women's Basketball Team, selected by College Sports Communicators (2022-23)

2022-2023 (Senior): Appeared in 22 games for the Jumbos and started one...Co-Captain who helped lead Tufts to a NESCAC Championship and advancing to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament...Averaged 2.7 points per game...Shot 41.7% from the field...Scored season high 10 points in 11 minutes versus Smith on 1/23/23...Had four points, four rebounds, and three steals in victory over Williams on 1/27/23...Scored six points and had three rebounds in NCAA Tournament second round game versus Skidmore on 3/04/23.

2021-2022 (Junior): Appeared in 21 games for Tufts and started one...Averaged 2.7 points per game and 1.7 rebounds per game...Scored career high eight points three times, vs New Jersey City on 1/17/22, vs Bowdoin on 1/28/22, and at Connecticut College on 2/05/22...Grabbed career high seven rebounds vs New Jersey City...Was 15-20 on free throws for a .750 free throw percentage including a perfect 4-4 at Trinity on 2/04/22.

2020-2021 (Sophomore): Season canceled due to COVID-19

2019-2020 (Freshman):  Appeared in 15 games for the brown and blue in her freshman season… averaged 4.9 minutes off the bench and made her collegiate debut on November 18th against the University of New England in which she scored two points and added one assist…pulled down three rebounds in a 91-47 win over Wheaton (Mass.)… in the NCAA First Round she played a season-high 12 minutes and scored a season-high three points while grabbing three rebounds.

Before Tufts: Was on the basketball team at Pace Academy...was a Lance and Shield Award winner...named a two-year captain of the team...was a First Team All-Region selection as a sophomore, junior and senior...on the team that played in the Region 5AAA tournament three years in a row...was a three-time Co-Offensie Player of the Year...led team in steals and charges taken for three years...named to the GACA All-State Team in 2019...selected to the Atlanta Journal Constitution All-Metro Team...winner of the Team Leadership Award her junior year and the Coaches Award her senior year...member of the National Honor Society...winner of the Cara Isdell Service Learning Award. 

Personal: Daughter of Lori and Sam...has one sibling, Sophie (23). 

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Historical Player Information

  • 32

    2019-20Freshman

    G
    5'9"
    32
  • 32

    2020-21Sophomore

    G
    5'9"
    32
  • 32

    2021-22Junior

    G
    5'9"
    32
  • 32
    C

    2022-23Senior

    Guard
    5'9"
    32
    C