Denison, 1988
• 1987 First Team Academic All-America®
Dr. Grant Jones was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame on June 15, 2015 in Orlando, Fla.
Dr. Grant Jones has built a legacy of service and excellence in the state of Ohio both on and off the gridiron after enjoying a career as one of the most decorated student-athletes in the history of Denison University. A two-time all-North Coast Athletic Conference honoree and team MVP as a defensive back for the Big Red, Dr. Jones was named as the GTE College Division Academic All-America® of the Year in 1987. During that same senior season of 1987-88, he was named as both the Woody Hayes National and Columbus Touchdown Club’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year while earning an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
Five years after earning his medical doctorate from Ohio State in 1992, Dr. Jones joined OSU Sports Medicine as an orthopaedic surgeon. He serves as the head team physician for the Buckeyes’ men’s basketball team and as the orthopaedic consultant for Ohio State’s women’s basketball, wrestling, gymnastics, golf, fencing, cheerleading and baseball teams. In 2009, Grant became head team physician for the Columbus Clippers, the Triple A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. In 2011 he was named a team physician for USA Lacrosse, working with both the men’s and women’s national teams.
A staple of the Columbus community, Dr. Jones has taken part in the Childhood League/Merry-Go-Round fundraiser for Columbus Children’s Hospital’s Childhood League Center for the past decade, as the event raises up to $400,000 annually. He has also takes part in the Night of Hope for the Columbus Child Advocacy Center for Abused Children while also volunteering for Pelotonia, an annual Ohio bicycle race to end cancer. Dr. Jones has also been a Special Olympics volunteer for the past 17 years and has worked with Life Time Sports, a sports camp for underprivileged children, since 2008. He also spent five weeks in South America giving medical lectures and visiting hospitals and clinics as part of the American Orthopaedic Society of Sports Medicine’s Traveling Fellowship Program.