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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (BlueDragonSports.com) – Hailey Jackson earned more postseason accolades on Wednesday as the NJCAA named the Hutchinson Community College women’s basketball sophomore forward as a first-team All-American.
Jackson, a 5-foot-11 sophomore from Tulsa, Oklahoma, became the 19th Blue Dragon Women’s Basketball All-American and fifth first-team selection. She is the third Blue Dragon first-team All-America selection in the past four seasons joining Mya Williams (2022) and Kiki Smith (2024).
Previously this postseason, Jackson was named the Jayhawk Conference Division I Women’s Basketball Player of the Year and she earned first-team all-KJCCC and all-Region 6 honors. Jackson was named KJCCC Player of the Week five times and was the NJCAA National Player of the Week twice this season.
The Blue Dragon sophomore forward was the Jayhawk Conference’s leading scorer and ranked 15th in the NJCAA in scoring at 18.3 points per game. Her 622 points scored were sixth most in the nation this season.
Jackson scored in double figures in 32 of 34 games in leading the Blue Dragons to back-to-back KJCCC championships and consecutive NJCAA national tournament appearances.
The 2024-25 Blue Dragons finished 29-5 and Jackson was 66-5 in her two seasons with the Blue Dragons. The 2024 Blue Dragons won the program’s first NJCAA Women’s Basketball national championship. Jackson figured prominently in that national title game, hitting three clutch free throws with 0.7 seconds remaining in regulation to force overtime. Jackson went onto score 25 points in Hutchinson’s 88-80 overtime win over Northwest Florida State.
During her sophomore season at Hutchinson, Jackson tallied 13 double-doubles, four 30-point games and 13 20-point games. She had a career-high 33 points on March 1 at Seward County and had a career-high 14 rebounds three different times this season.
Jackson became the program’s single-season free-throw leader, making 194 or 242 free throws this season.
Jackson earned six overall Top 10 single-season statistical finishes this last season. Including her free-throw record, Jackson was fifth in scoring (622 points), seventh in scoring average (18.3 points per game), third in free-throw attempts (242), sixth in field-goal attempts (432) and tied for ninth in rebounds (294).
Over her Blue Dragon career, Jackson climbed to No. 3 on the Hutchinson women’s basketball career scoring list with 1,100 points. She was No. 2 in free-throws made (296) and free-throws attempted (386), seventh in total rebounds (523), eighth in field goals (367) and ninth in career scoring average (15.5 points per game).
Jackson is just the third Blue Dragon ever to have 1,000 or more career points and 500 or more career rebounds in a career, joining Cian Carvalho and Kalani Purcell.
Jackson is one of five Jayhawk Conference players to earn All-America honors this season. Dodge City’s Layla-J Cameron was a second-team selection. Barton’s Vivian Onugha was named to the third team and Cowley’s Elysa Martinez and Dodge City’s Shorna Patterson were honorable mention selections.
