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JARROD JONES
Speaker

At the 1995 NCAA Dr. Pepper Invitational Basketball Tournament, Jarrod was awarded an "All-star Student Athlete Award" by CBS Sports commentator Jim Nantz. Jim Nantz is best known for commentating the NCAA basketball tournament and National Championship games. Following the banquet, Jarrod's life began to take a different turn after personally spending time with Jim Nantz at the host hotel and receiving an autograph that read, "Jarrod, thanks for being a good role model." "Being a good role model" not only became the desire of Jarrod's heart, but an intense desire for today's youth, particularly young men. Since 2000, Jarrod has been a full-time speaker who has stood before tens of thousands of youth empowering and inspiring them to live lives that expresses honor and respect, solid values, self-control, and right choices. In addition to school assemblies and other youth events, Jarrod has also been a keynote speaker for regional Future Business Leaders of America, and guidance counselors.

Jarrod Jones, an Alabama native, is a graduate and former
basketball player of Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama.
He graduated with a BA in Human Development and
Family Studies in 1995. He acquired a Masters Degree in 2003.

Jarrod currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama with his wife,
Christie, their sons, Josiah (2 yrs. old), Titus (10 mo. old) and
their Chihuahua, Tidbit.

Jarrod's wife Christie holding
son Josiah.

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