Tamara (Jones) Jurgens

Tami (Jones) Jurgens was one of the top dual-sport athletes of her time helping NSU women’s basketball to one of its most successful stretches ever and earning conference championships in track & field.

During her time at NSU from 1987-91, Jurgens guided the Wolves’ basketball team to a combined record of 97-24 leaving the Wolves with a solid foundation for their 1991-92 national championship team.

Jurgens currently ranks 21st in Northern State history scoring 1,117 career points in her four-year career. She also ranks ninth in the school’s record books in career rebounds with 806 in her NSU tenure.

Jurgens was not only a superb athlete on the hardwood, but also exceled in track & field earning NSC championships in 1989 for the discus and in 1990 for the discus and the javelin. She competed at the NAIA national meet in 1989 where she finished eighth in the discus missing all-American honors by just two places.

Jurgens’ track & field experience not only took place in the midwest but all over the world as she competed versus the Barbados junior national team in 1989 and with the NAIA national team in Europe in 1990.

In 1991, Jurgens was named as the Hildred Wolfe Outstanding Female Athlete at Northern State. She is currently a fourth grade teacher at Parker Elementary School in Parker, S.D. She and her husband, Tom, have a daughter, Raelin (1) and are expecting their second child in June.