TOWSON, Md. – Tonight on CBS Sports Network, Towson University women's basketball player Kionna Jeter will be featured in a special broadcast called "Defying the Odds: The 2019 Honda Inspiration Award."
 
The show begins at 8 p.m. and features the four finalists for the Honda Inspiration Award, including Jeter. The team will watch together as Towson hosts a watch party to see the program. In May the redshirt sophomore was selected as a finalist for the award given to a student-athlete who has overcome adversity and reached accomplishments in their sport.
 
Started 31 years ago, each year an Inspiration Award Winner has been announced on a live telecast on CBS Sports Network. Next Monday, June 24, the presentation of the Honda Awards will take place live in the Founders' Room at the Galen Center on the campus of UCLA as part of the two-day Honda Awards event.
 
Following the award presentation will be an encore airing of the Defying the Odds special at 8:30 p.m.
 
Jeter's story and those of the three other finalists will be shared tonight for the nation to hear.
In the summer of 2018, Jeter signed to play at Towson University for the women's basketball team after transferring from Gulf Coast State in Panama City, FL, where she averaged 19.8 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game. During her final year at Gulf Coast State, she returned home to Spartanburg, SC, for a funeral and was shot twice in the back during a drive-by shooting. One bullet traveled close to her heart and one fractured her shoulder blade. Unsure if she would even survive the wounds, she certainly never thought she would play basketball again.
Rehab, therapy, will and strength got her back on the court.

She led Towson to its highest-ever seeding entering the CAA Championship and the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.  For her efforts, she was recognized as a First-Team All-CAA honoree and also named to the CAA All-Defensive Team and the CAA All-Tournament team.

In the Tigers' first NCAA game, Jeter led the team with 20 points and had a game-high seven steals. She was named the CAA Player of the Week three times en route to leading the conference in points per game and steals per game. She finished with 572 points on the season, the second-most points scored in a year in program history.