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Alabama OG Barrett Jones spends Spring Break in Haiti...
Posted on 3/26/10 at 6:41 pm
Posted on 3/26/10 at 6:41 pm
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Barrett Jones is not your typical college student. He did not make spring break plans for the beach or return home for a laid back week catching up with friends and family.
Instead, Jones headed to Pignom, Haiti, to aid in the relief efforts of a country struck by a devastating earthquake on January 14, 2010.
Jones is a redshirt freshman on the Alabama Crimson Tide football team and a 4.0 student who garnered second-team Academic All-America honors in the classroom while starting at right offensive guard and earning Freshman All-America accolades on the field. He helped the Crimson Tide put together a 14-0 season and capture the school’s 13th National Championship.
But soon after Alabama had finished celebrating its 37-21 victory over Texas in the Citi BCS National Championship Game, Jones began planning a mission trip to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, just looking for a way to give back.
“I saw the destruction and felt that there had to be something I could do,” said Jones. “So I started looking for an opportunity, a way to get over there to help.”
He found it with the mission group called, Eikon Ministries, based out of his hometown in Memphis, Tennessee. Director Soup Campbell had traveled to Haiti three times since the earthquake performing mission work, and he was someone Jones felt had the experience to take him and his friends.
Jones’ friends were his fellow teammate at Alabama, Hardie Buck, a walk-on wide receiver and friend James Gannon. Both joined him on the trip for a chance to give back.
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Posted on 3/26/10 at 6:42 pm to CapstoneGrad06
trying to kidnap them like the group from Idaho?
Posted on 3/26/10 at 6:44 pm to Elleshoe
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trying to kidnap them like the group from Idaho?
Barrett Jones.....Jim Jones..... hmmmm
eta- He brought plenty of Crimson Koolaid with him I'm sure.
This post was edited on 3/26/10 at 6:45 pm
Posted on 3/26/10 at 6:47 pm to Alahunter
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- He brought plenty of Crimson Koolaid with him I'm sure
Posted on 3/26/10 at 6:48 pm to CapstoneGrad06
Good for him...for both volunteering and getting a 4.0
Posted on 3/26/10 at 7:00 pm to arrakis
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Good for him...for both volunteering and getting a 4.0
this
Posted on 3/26/10 at 11:40 pm to CapstoneGrad06
He would have had more fun deep sea fishing with Julio.
I keed... I keed!
I keed... I keed!
Posted on 3/27/10 at 12:00 am to SloMeaux
Julio is barred from salt water angling.
Posted on 3/27/10 at 12:40 am to CapstoneGrad06
He's not in Haiti, that pic was taken in Montgomery.
Posted on 3/27/10 at 12:48 am to CapstoneGrad06
Great story, and student-athletes.
I had to do a double-take to make sure they weren't just out front of Dreamland off MacFarland Blvd.
I had to do a double-take to make sure they weren't just out front of Dreamland off MacFarland Blvd.
This post was edited on 3/27/10 at 12:51 am
Posted on 3/27/10 at 7:23 am to TheRoarRestoredInBR
Or anyplace in NO....
This post was edited on 3/27/10 at 8:21 am
Posted on 3/27/10 at 8:20 am to JPH77
now why not show these types of stories on the espn's of the world..great representatives for alabama, sec, and america.
Posted on 3/27/10 at 11:40 am to CapstoneGrad06
That's almost as dangerous as spending srping break in New Orleans
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