27   Sam Jones
	Class: Sophomore Hometown: Annapolis, Md. High School: Severna Park Height / Weight: 5-8 / 176 Position: A

S. Jones in 2011 (Fr.): Among the nation's top freshman point producers ... was tied for fourth in points per game (2.92) alongside classmate Tucker Hull ... among all players he was tied for 43rd ... along with Hull, led Navy in scoring with 38 points ... he was also tied for No. 1 in goals scored (23) and second in assists (15) ... additionally, he led the Mids in scoring in Patriot League play with 20 points on 10 goals and 10 assists ... named to the 2011 Inside Lacrosse All-Freshman First Team ... teammate Tucker Hull was named to the second team ... scored a goal in 11 of the 13 games in his rookie campaign, including multiple goals in seven contests ... also turned in assists in nine games ... member of the Mids' extra-man squad that scored goals on 19 of its 55 attempts (.345) and was ranked 22nd nationally ... targeted four man-up goals and assisted on three others ... tied for fourth on the Mids' all-time freshman points leader board with 38 after breaking into the Mids' leader board with his goal against Maryland ... it's the most points by a Navy rookie since Ian Dingman posted 40 points, the third most by a rookie in school history, in 2003 ... tied for seventh on the Mids' all-time freshman assists list with 15 ... one of four players under Richie Meade's watch that are among the top-10 list ... finished the year tied for sixth on Navy's all-time freshman goals top 10 list with 23 ... it's the most goals by a Navy rookie since Nick Mirabito scored 27 in 2005 ... broke into the top 10 list with his goal at Holy Cross ... in the same game, he joined the assists record book ... with both Jones and Hull scoring 23 goals, it became the first rookie tandem to score 20 or more goals in program history ... one of just six freshmen during Richie Meade's 17-year coaching career at Navy who has scored four goals in a game and one of only two (Ian Dingman, 2003) who has scored four goals twice as a rookie ... no two freshmen have scored four goals in the same season until this season (Tucker Hull, 4 goals at Bucknell) ... scored a goal and fed classmate Harrison Chaires on an extra-man goal in the Mids' final game of the year against Johns Hopkins ... dealt out a career-high tying three assists in his first appearance in the Army-Navy game ... also scooped up five ground balls ... punched in a pair of goals and added an assist in the Mids' one-goal loss to Georgetown ... had his eight-game goal-scoring streak snapped by Colgate where he was held to just one shot and it came in the last two minutes of the contest ... turned in an assist to go along with his goal in Navy's 8-3 win over Holy Cross ... scored one of just three even-strength goals for the Mids in a game that featured five extra-man strikes ... scored a pair of goals against Towson on two shots, including an extra-man tally with 52 seconds left in the opening half ... paced the Mids with a career-high six-point effort against Lafayette, scoring three goals to go along with his career-high three assists ... also picked up a career-best six ground balls ... turned in a four-point performance (2G, 2A) against Bucknell in the Mids' double-overtim loss ... scored a career-high tying four goals and added an assist for a career-best five-point output in Navy's Patriot League opener against Lehigh ... produced a pair of assists to go along with his two goals in Navy's two-goal loss to North Carolina ... named the Patriot League Rookie of the Week on Feb. 21 following his five-goal, one-assist efforts against VMI and Loyola ... one of just six Navy freshmen all-time to receive the honor, joining Billy Looney in 2004, Nick Mirabito in 2005, Basil Daratsos and Tim Paul in 2007, and current teammate RJ Wickham in 2009 ... scored a goal and dealt out an assist in the Mids' one-goal heartbreaker at Loyola ... opened his Navy career by scoring four goals against VMI, the best goal-output by a Navy freshman since Basil Daratsos scored four goals against Colgate on March 21, 2007 ... was responsible for one of Navy's man-up strikes against the Keydets.

More on S. Jones: A 2009 graduate of Severna Park High School, Jones attended the Naval Academy Prep School during the 2009-10 academic year ... a three-sport athlete who earned letters in lacrosse (3), football (2) and basketball (1) ... a two-time (2008, `09) first-team all-county and Honorable Mention All-Met selection in lacrosse ... also a First-Team All-Examiner pick as a junior and senior ... guided Severna Park to the state, county and region titles in 2007 with an 18-2 record ... in 2008, the lacrosse team was crowned the county champion with a 16-3 mark ... served as the team captain of both the lacrosse and football teams his senior year ... received second-team all-county honors in 2008 ... that same season, he set the school's single-game passing record ... was the co-recipient, along with Paul Zimmerman, of the first annual NAPS Lacrosse Captain Brandon "Bull" Barrett award for outstanding hard work, dedication to the team and inspiring leadership on and off the lacrosse field ... teammate of current Navy lacrosse member Sean Price, who is also a freshman at the Academy ... both his father, David, (`82) and grandfather, Jack, (`54) are not only graduates of the Naval Academy, but also played lacrosse ... David, who was the co-captain of the 1982 Navy lacrosse team, was a three-year letterwinner for Dick Szlasa's Mids ... he was a member of teams that made three trips to the NCAA Tournament, including the 1981 tourney in which Navy was a semifinalist ... Jack was a two-time All-American goalkeeper under the legendary Dinty Moore, who was the 1954 recipient of the Ensign C. Markland Kelly Award, which is presented to the nation's top goalkeeper ... Jack, Class of `55, also led the Midshipmen to the USILA National Championship in 1954 ... brother, Davey, played lacrosse at Eastern University in 2010 ... son of Lt. Col. David Jones, USMC (ret.) and the late Connie Jones ... majoring in Political Science.