{"id":3321,"date":"2013-08-04T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T19:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/inspiringathletes\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2013-08-04T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T18:46:57","slug":"wnba-veteran-tiffany-jackson-jones-talks-about-being-created-for-greatness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/inspiringathletes\/2013\/08\/wnba-veteran-tiffany-jackson-jones-talks-about-being-created-for-greatness.html","title":{"rendered":"WNBA veteran Tiffany Jackson-Jones talks about being &#8220;Created For Greatness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsa Shock forward Tiffany Jackson-Jones has steadily become one of the WNBA&#8217;s most valuable role players. Her impressive credentials include WBCA All-America honors at Duncanville (TX) High School, ESPN.com&#8217;s college Freshman of the Year award at Texas and National All-America kudos following her senior year with the Longhorns.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2012, Jackson-Jones took a full year away from basketball to give birth to she and her husband&#8217;s first child. Now that she&#8217;s back on the court, she is back to her hard-nosed, aggressive style of play that makes her one of the more formidable defensive players in the women&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>In this video interview, Jackson-Jones talks about the example of greatness that Jesus has given her, what it means to be truly great and two significant moments in her life where she achieved greatness.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/71662771?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tulsa Shock forward Tiffany Jackson-Jones has steadily become one of the WNBA&#8217;s most valuable role players. 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