Jones honored with Virgil Sweet award

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Greg Jones, the high school sports editor for The Journal Gazette, has been awarded the Virgil Sweet Award for District 1 by the The Indiana Basketball Coaches Association.

The award, named for the long-time executive director of the organization, goes to those “who have provided meritorious service in promoting basketball in the state of Indiana.”

Jones is the first person from The Journal Gazette to get the award, first given in 1982. He joined the paper in 1998 after working at the Warsaw Times-Union. A year later, he was promoted to high school sports editor. He and his wife, Michelle, have two children, Emma, 11, and Riley, 9.

In addition to his reporting duties, Jones oversees and emcees The Journal Gazette’s twice-a-year athletic banquets and helps direct the annual Border Wars All-Star basketball game between Indiana and Ohio high school players.

The Sweet Award will be given at a banquet in Indianapolis on April 27.

– Journal Gazette