Some of Chelsey's ability is inherited. She and
her older brother, Matthew, are the children of Tim
Jones, a former St. Paul police officer who was shot and
killed in the line of duty. Tim was a tremendous
athlete says Chelsey's mother, Roxanne. He is in
the Harding High School athletics hall of fame for
football and baseball. Matthew was a Stillwater
football captain.
She
grew up playing hockey against the boys, and made the
high school girl's varsity as a seventh grader.
Coach
Tony Scheid took over the girls' hockey
program at Stillwater High School
when Chelsey was a freshman.
One of his
first moves was encouraging this
talented young forward to shoot more.
For some
players, that might have meant a few extra
minutes after practice.
But not Chelsey. That
summer, she set up a hockey net and a
tarp in her mother's front yard, and
recorded the number of pucks she shot
every day for three months.
She hit the
ice with the Ponies that fall with an
extra 67,000 practice shots to her
credit.
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Estimated /
assessed stats |
|
Year |
All-State Team |
GP |
G |
A |
Pts |
|
2000-01 |
- - - |
|
|
|
(25) |
|
2001-02 |
- - - |
|
|
|
(35) |
|
2002-03 |
Honorable Mention |
|
|
|
(48) |
|
2003-04 |
Third Team |
24 |
47 |
23 |
70 |
|
2004-05 |
First Team |
27 |
44 |
34 |
78 |
|
2005-06 |
First Team |
31 |
68 |
36 |
104 |
|
Totals |
|
232 |
128 |
360 |
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Chelsey Jones, Senior
No.14, Stillwater
2006 State Tournament |
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Chelsey Jones,
No.14
Soph, Northeastern Univ. |
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He saw a girl
from Stillwater. He didn't remember her name, but
she was a ninth-grader who played defense, and she could
play college hockey right now.
Mark Johnson,
U of Wis.
women's hockey coach, in Jan 2004. |
"She has an
incredible shot, and when she shoots, it's as hard as
the boys' and very accurate,"
Stillwater coach
Tony Scheid
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In the first period of
Stillwater's 1-0 victory over Roseville, Chelsey let go
a slap shot that glanced off the crossbar with a clang
that echoed throughout the Recreation Center. A
collective "oooohhh" followed almost immediately from
the crowd. She says crowds often go "ecstatic"
when she whistles one of her 75-mph slap shots.
Stillwater's
Big Shot, January 29, 2005 |
"It
was a goal" - "No goal" - "Goal!"
December 29, 2004
This sequence took about ten seconds:
*
Christina Lee (Wayzata) launched a slap shot
-- that either framed in the back of the net, or hit the
cross bar.
-- and Wayzata players raised their sticks for the
"Goal"
--
while the officials signaled "No goal!"
-- as the puck caromed out into
Stillwater's defensive zone
-- where Chelsey scooped it
up
-- dashed up the ice.
-- beat
a defender
-- beat the goalie
-- and shot
into the net for a
-- "Goal!"
All this in ten seconds.
Final score: 1-0. |
2005
First Team All-State
2006 First Team All-State
2006 Player of the Year
Member of the
Girls All-Time Top Players
listing because of
twice
"First Team All-State".
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