Jones accumulated more than 300 wins as a head coach, including at Parkview High School (134-37) in Springfield and then at Marshfield High School. At Parkview, she led the Lady Vikings to runner-up finishes in the Ozark Conference and Class 4 district play for three consecutive years. Sixteen players earned college scholarships. At Marshfield, she led the Lady Jays to the Final Four in 2014. Overall, 21 athletes earned college scholarships. Additionally, Jones was an assistant at Southwest Baptist University in 2006 and 2007 and then spent six seasons as the top assistant at Drury University. At Drury from the fall of 2007 to the spring of 2013, her recruiting enhanced the Lady Panthers’ Great Lakes Valley Conference championships and NCAA Division II Tournament berths. Jones is a 1985 graduate of Christian County High School in Kentucky, where she played basketball and tennis, and later was honored among the Top 100 athletes for Western Kentucky in 2000. She is a 1991 graduate of Austin Peay State University, having played two years at Paducah (Ky.) Community College and then at Union University Jackson, Tenn.