Jacolby Jones, 9, gets ready to take a shot during the Area 10 Basketball Special Olympics Wednesday at the Warren Central High School gymnasium. Jacolby is assisted by Warren Central High School Future Teachers of America member Antonio Brown. (C. Todd ShermanThe Vicksburg Post)

On his second day back at school since having a kidney transplant, Jacolby Jones won a fourth-place ribbon for participating with classmates in the Special Olympics.

“He’s happy to be back at school,” his teacher at South Park Elementary, Lisa Rayfield said Wednesday. “He didn’t forget anything; we picked up right where we left off.”

Jacolby, 9, received a kidney from his mother, Tabitha, on Dec. 12 last year at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital.

Jacolby was diagnosed with mitochondrial disorder and Fanconi’s Syndrome in 1996, which has caused his kidneys to nearly shut down and resulted in bouts with pneumonia, dehydrations and weakness.

Jacolby attends school three days a week and travels with his mother to Birmingham two days a week for tests.

“He’s doing great,” Rayfield said. “They both look wonderful.”

Students from Vicksburg and Warren County’s seven elementary schools, Jacob’s Ladder, Vicksburg Intermediate and Warren Central Intermediate participated in the Area 10 Basketball Special Olympics Wednesday in the Warren Central High School gymnasium. High school students from Yazoo, Warren and Claiborne counties were to participate today.