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Saturday, March 1, 2008
The Great Bard Jones
Western Arkansas, AR
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Fort Smith Southside’s Brad Jones is more dynamic than most top
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“My mom still swears up and down my name is still suppose
to be ‘Bard.’ “They call Shakespeare, ‘the great Bard.”–Southside’s Brad Jones
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Brad Jones was born in St. Louis but grew up trying to make Willie Mays catches in Fort Smith, where he’s now Southside High’s 5-foot-10, 165-pound senior leader in left field.
Jones said he loves golf as much as baseball because it’s “real peaceful and it’s just something to mess up my swing in the off season. It’s fun to play baseball, but golf is a lot less stressful sport.”
Greg Jones, Brad’s father, was the one “always telling me to make Willie Mays catches, he would always have me taking off that way and throw balls over my head and I would have to catch it like Willie Mays did in the World Series.”
Greg Jones had an opportunity to pay baseball at the University of Oklahoma, but opted to stay in school. He’s now become an orthopedic surgeon at River Valley Muscular and Skeletal in Fort Smith. Like his father, Brad Jones’ plan focusedbe on school instead of trying to prolong his baseball career. And why not go with academics when you sport a 3.9 GPA and scored a 29 on the ACT.
“Next year, I am going to go to school at The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs,” Jones said. “My cousin went up there and told me how great of a town it is and I went up there and figured it out for myself and fell in love with it.”
Jones said with a laugh that the only sports he’ll pursue will be “intramurals and probably owning everybody at that.” He plans to major in Biology because, “My 11th grade biology experience with Mr. Ford, I think he really turned me on to something that I like because I am really interested in Biology. Just everyday it was amazing, he was probably the best teacher I have ever had.”
Jones said he loves skiing in Steamboat Springs, Colo. He also enjoys playing ping pong and camping near White Rock.
Those are all things most everybody knows about Brad Jones. One thing some may not know is that he’s actually had a poem published. It was for a 10th grade English class, but it was so good that the teacher submitted it for a book of high school poets.
Jones’ poem, “Window” is “23 lines about life.”
Strangely, life started with a hint of a poetry gene in Brad Jones.
“My birth certificate said ‘Bard,” instead of ‘Brad,’” Jones said. “And Bard means poet and my dad always told me it was a mistake, but my mom always says, ‘Yeah, we knew you were going to be a poet and I tried to name you that.’ My mom still swears up and down my name is still suppose to be ‘Bard.’
“They call Shakespeare, ‘the great Bard.’”•
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