Jayne Daigle Jones’ impressive basketball career at Dartmouth began and ended the same way – with a postseason award and an Ivy League championship.
 
A four-time All-Ivy first team performer, Daigle Jones (née Daigle) kicked off her career with a bang, earning Rookie of the Year honors and leading the Big Green to the Ivy League title in 1982-83. Dartmouth became the first Ivy team to earn an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament, hosting Monmouth in the first round.
 
Daigle then received Player of the Year as a senior in 1985-86, leading Dartmouth to another Ivy League title. At the time, she was just the third Ivy player to receive Rookie and Player of the Year over the course of a career; that number has since grown to 16.
 
Daigle is one of only seven players in Ivy League history to receive first-team All-Ivy all four years. In the Big Green records book, she is third on the all-time scoring list with 1,846 points, second in career rebounding with 1,015, second in career scoring average with 18.8 points per game and second with a .516 field goal percentage. Daigle also ranks in the top-10 at Dartmouth in blocked shots (121), field goal percentage (.516), made field goals (768) and made free throws (310). In the Ivy League records book, she is ninth in points, seventh in scoring average, seventh in rebounds, eighth in rebounding average, sixth in field goals and ninth in field goal attempts.
 
During her Rookie of the Year campaign, Daigle led Dartmouth to an 18-8 record and 11-1 in the Ivy league while averaging a double-double with 17.5 points and 11.5 rebounds. She posted a team-high 58 blocked shots and shot 54.7 percent from the field as the Big Green advanced to the NCAA Tournament.
 
Daigle raised her scoring average in her sophomore season to 21.5 points while pulling down 10.7 rebounds a night. She also boosted her field goal percentage (.636), then passed the 1,000-point plateau early in her junior year while averaging 19.3 points and 10.5 rebounds for the season.
 
Daigle capped off her historic career with Ivy League Player of the Year honors, posting 17.4 points and 8.8 rebounds per game her senior year. Her performance led the Big Green to the Ivy League title for the second time in her four years.
 
Daigle was inducted into the Dartmouth Wearers of the Green in 1994. She and 15 other women’s basketball standouts were named to the Ivy League Silver Anniversary Honor Roll during the League’s celebration of 25 years of women’s athletics in 1999.
 
After graduation, Daigle earned her Masters of Education from Lesley College and spent six years as a special ed elementary teacher. For the past 14 years, she has run an at-home daycare while raising six children with Vernon, her husband of nearly 30 years. Their eldest child graduated from Dartmouth in 2012, and the youngest is now a senior in high school. A deaconess at her church, Daigle has been active with her local schools, serving on the Oxbow High (Vt.) PTO and scholarship committee, and fundraising for various school trips with the Piermont (N.H.) school district over the last dozen years to Washington, D.C.