2012-13 NEMCC Basketball Media Guide

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2012-13 Basketball Media Guide

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Table of ContentsLetter from President Dr. Johnny L. Allen, Ed.D.........................4

Northeast Board of Trustees..........................................................5

Letter from Athletic Director Ricky Ford....................................6

Athletic Director Ricky Ford Biography.......................................7

Brian Alexander Biography..........................................................8

David Robbins Biography............................................................9

Maurice Stafford Biography.......................................................10

Nick Coln Biography..................................................................11

Hope Barnes Biography..............................................................12

Michael Joseph Miller Biography..............................................13

Mascot History...........................................................................13

Retired Jerseys...........................................................................14

Fight Song..................................................................................14

Women’s Preview.......................................................................15

Women’s Biographies...........................................................16-17

Women’s Roster.........................................................................18

Program Credits

The 2012-13 Northeast Mississippi Community College Basketball Media Guide was produced in the Public In-formation Office of the college under the direction of Associate Vice Presi-dent of Public Information Tony Finch and Sports Information Director M. Joseph Miller. Layout and design was handled by Michael H. Miller.

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2012-13 Basketball Media Guide

Men’s Roster.................................................................................19

Men’s Biographies...................................................................20-21

Men’s Preview..............................................................................22

NEMCC All-Americans...............................................................23

Bonner Arnold Coliseum Feature............................................24-25

2011-12 Women’s Statistics...........................................................26

2011-12 Men’s Statistics...............................................................27

2011 NEMCC Sports Hall of Fame.........................................28-29

NEMCC Sports Hall of Fame Inductees......................................29

MACJC Sports Hall of Fame Inductees........................................29

2011-12 Year in Review................................................................30

2012-13 Cheerleaders...................................................................31

Athletic Contact Information.........................................................32

WNAU Advertisement..................................................................33

JucoWeekly.org Advertisement....................................................34

Sodexo Advertisement..................................................................35

2012-13 Basketball Schedule.........................................................36


Northeast Mississippi CoMMuNity College4

Dear Friends of Northeast:

Thank you for your support of the ath-

letic efforts of Northeast Mississippi

Community College.

Each coach and each athlete has worked

hard to ensure that our teams are ready to

give performances that make you proud to

be a “Tiger Fan.” Northeast exists to pro-

vide educational, recreational and social

resources for students and supporters to

grow and enjoy their accomplishments.

While you are on campus, I hope you

have a safe and enjoyable visit. I trust you

will use this opportunity to get to know

our students, coaches and staff. We are

always ready to assist you to enjoy your

time with us.

Thank you for everything that you do to

encourage and support our efforts. We are

always glad to have you on our campus.

Sincerely,

Johnny L. Allen

President

Letter from the President



Board of

TrusteesT. Jack Ramsey

ChairmanTenure of Service: 1983

Tishomingo County/Banker

Troy Holliday Vice Chairman

Tenure of Service: 1964Tippah CountyBusinessman

John O. CunninghamSecretary

Tenure of Service: 1995Prentiss County

Businessman

Ken Basil Tenure of Service: 2008

Union CountySuperintendent of

Education

Bill Breedlove Tenure of Service: 1999

Prentiss CountyBusinessman

Tonya Butler Farris Tenure of Service: 2012

Alcorn CountyBusinesswoman

Alvie BlakneyTenure of Service: 2011

Tishomingo CountyRetire Businessman

Douglas Jackson Tenure of Service: 1995

Tippah CountyRetired Educator

Malcolm Kuykendall Tenure of Service: 2006

Tishomingo CountySuperintendent of

Education

Tracie Langston Tenure of Service: 2004

Prentiss CountyBusinesswoman

Sam McCoy Tenure of Service: 1988

Prentiss CountyBusinessman

Randle Downs Tenure of Service: 2012

Prentiss CountySuperintendent of

Education

Gina Smith Tenure of Service: 2012

Alcorn CountySuperintendent of

Education

Luzene Triplett Tenure of Service: 2002

Prentiss CountyRetire Educator

Vance Witt Tenure of Service: 2007

Union CountyBusinessman



Letter from the Athletic DirectorParents, Fans, Supporters, Alumni;

On behalf of the Athletic Department at Northeast Mississippi Community College, I want to

welcome you to this athletic event.

We hope that your visit today will create an interest that will encourage you to come back.

As we strive for excellence in the classroom and in the athletic arena, we would like to encour-

age every one of you to become involved in all aspects of our athletic department.

As we try to reach the highest level with all of our sports programs we must continue to work

very hard to be the very best we can be.

We are looking for all avenues of resources to build on our already competitive programs.

Within the last five (5) years, we have steadily improved every one of our athletic teams.

We now have great leadership in all of our athletic programs and we are very excited about what

the future holds for all of them. We would like to invite you to become a part of our Athletic

booster club and help us as we strive to reach the highest level.

Our goal is to educate our student/athletes to a level that will put them at the very top in their

perspective sport.

In addition, we want our athletes to be some of our most productive citizens.

Again, welcome to the NEMCC campus and we hope you have a very enjoyable visit and we

welcome you back at any time either to visit our campus or to attend another athletic event.

Thanks!

Ricky G. Ford

Athletic Director, NEMCC

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Athletic

Director

Biography

Former Northeast women’s basketball coach Ricky Ford left his “built Ford tough” mark on many Lady Tiger teams since coming to Northeast in 1981.

After the 2010-11 season, Ford decided to hang it up and went into his victory lap through the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC).

On March 7, 2011 Ford announced he was stepping down as women’s basketball coach at Northeast.

Ford ended his career at Northeast with an overall record of 588-226.

While wins have not been on the coach’s mind, the satisfaction of a job well done kept Ford going at Northeast for 30 sea-sons.

Building success on and off the court was what Ford did since coming to Northeast Mississippi Junior College in 1981.

During his 30-year coaching career, Ford only had four sub-.500 seasons and the first of those did not come until his 2002-03 Lady Tigers finished 11-12 but even it fin-ished as the North Division runner-up.

Within five years since taking over the Lady Tiger program in 1981, Ford had transformed the Lady Tigers into national title contenders that included a national runner-up finish in 1986 and a national championship in 1987.

During Ford’s illustrious career, the Lady Tiger basketball coach led his team to 15 North Division titles, nine MACJC State Championships with 6 (six) of those state championships being consecutive and three Region XXIII crowns while leading the Lady Tigers to the National Junior College Athletic Association’s (NJCAA) national basketball tournament on three separate occasions.

Ford went to the national tournament a final time in 2005-06 as the Lady Tigers

captured the North Division, MACJC State and Region XXIII titles and finished the season as the nation’s No. 21-ranked team after appearing in the national event in Sa-lina, Kan.

Following his final national tournament appearance, Ford was honored as the Divi-sion I, District O, Region XXIII Coach of the Year - an award that is given to the head coach of each of the 16 regional champion-ship teams.

One year after his national tournament appearance, Ford continued his success in the MACJC as the veteran mentor led the Lady tigers back to the Region XXIII tour-nament for a twenty-fifth straight year as the Lady Tigers once again captured the North Division - their fourth straight divi-sion title - and successfully defended their 2006 MACJC State Title.

Ford was appointed Dean of Student Ser-vices at the beginning of the 2011 spring semester following the retirement of Ken-neth Pounders, and is currently in his sixth

year as athletic director for the college.His responsibilities as athletic director

has Ford overseeing the day-to-day opera-tions of an athletic department that features eight varsity sports, an all-female cheer-leading squad and also coordinates the annual MACJC All-Star Football Classic game that is held each year in December.

Prior to coming to Northeast, Ford built successful basketball programs at Boonev-ille High School coaching the Lady Blue Devils for four years and the Blue Devils for a pair of seasons.

Ford’s overall careen record stands at 676-253 and carries a winning percentage of 72.7 percent into retirement.

An alumnus of Northeast and former Ti-ger basketball player under Kenneth Lind-sey, Ford earned a bachelor’s degree from Mississippi State University and a master’s degree from the University of Mississippi.

Ricky and his wife LuAnne have four children, Aaron, Lauren, Suzanne, and Ben.

Athletic Director Ricky Ford

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When Northeast began the search for a new women’s head basketball coach, it turned to the professional ranks and hired Northeast Alumnus and Tupelo Rock-N-Roller’s head basketball coach Brian Alexander.

Upon the hiring announcement on April 20, 2011, Alexander became the only head coach in the history of the MACJC to have previous professional head coaching experience.

Alexander can also claim the rare accom-plishment of being the only MACJC coach to take two different programs to the NJCAA national tournament – Northeast men’s team in 1994-95 and Itawamba men’s team on two separate occasions – 2006-07 and 2007-08.

In his first-year, Northeast qualified for the MACJC State Basketball Tournament in Fulton with a dramatic 104-102 overtime win against Mississippi Delta on Sophomore Night at Bonner Arnold Coliseum in Booneville.

During his first season in Booneville, the Lady Tiger basketball team adapted to Al-exander’s style of play and ended up giving Copiah-Lincoln a run during the first round of the MACJC State Tournament.

Northeast not only became a force on the hardwood but also stewards in the classroom as well with Anna Brooke Page and Bree Har-ris selected for NJCAA Student-Athlete Aca-demic Awards at the end of the season.

In addition the NJCAA Student-Athlete Academic Awards, a handful of Lady Tigers were also members of the Iota Zeta chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society and Page and Jackson signed to play on the four-year level at Blue Mountain College and William Carey University, respectively.

Throughout his career, Alexander has played a vital role in seven programs that have set school records for victories and won championships.

Overall, Alexander has helped his teams win 14 championships, make 20 postseason appearances, and been on staffs that have been named Coach of the Year eight times. The coaching veteran has spent eight of his seasons working as an NCAA Division I as-sistant coach at the University of Southern Mississippi, Southeastern Louisiana Univer-sity, and Campbell University.

From 2006-2009, Alexander worked as as-sistant coach/recruiting coordinator for both women and men at Itawamba Community College.

Alexander assisted ICC to 5 MACJC North Division Championships (2007M, 2008W, 2008M, 2009W, 2009M), 2 MACJC State Championships (2008W, 2008M), two NJ-CAA Region XXIII Championships (2007M, 2008M), two appearances in the National Tournament in Hutchison, Kansas (2007M, 2008M), five coach of the year awards, and two final national rankings (2007M #14, 2008M #5).

From 2003-2006, Alexander worked at Campbell University as assistant coach/re-cruiting coordinator for the Fighting Camels. In 2005-2006, Campbell broke school season records for most 3 pointers made and offen-sive scoring average in which they finished 1st in the Atlantic Sun and 2nd in the nation. Campbell’s impressive turnaround was rec-ognized nationally as head coach Robbie La-ing was named the Atlantic Sun Conference Coach of the Year by CollegeInsider.com.

From 2001-2003, Alexander worked two years at Southeastern Louisiana University as an assistant coach. The 2002-03 Lions club broke a school record for victories in the Southland for the second year in a row. During Alexander’s time at Southeastern, he worked under Billy Kennedy who is now the

Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Texas A&M University.

From 1998-2001, Alexander worked three seasons at the University of Southern Mis-sissippi. During the 2001 season, the Eagles posted a 22-9 record and won their first Con-ference USA National Division and regular season championships en route to a berth in the NIT. While at Southern Miss, Alexander helped develop four All-Conference USA se-lections, including Vandarel Jones, the 2001 C-USA Defensive Player of the Year and Scholar-Athlete of the Year.

From 1996-98, Alexander served as assis-tant coach at Columbus (Miss.) High School under Head Coach Sammy Smith. The 1997-98 team advanced to the North State Tourna-ment and during Alexander’s two-year stay, the program compiled a 41-13 won-lost record.

From 1994-96, Alexander spent two sea-sons as a student assistant at Northeast work-ing under Head Coach Mike Lewis.

During Alexander’s tenure, Northeast won the 1995 North Mississippi Division Champi-onship and the Region XXIII title. That club also earned a berth in the 1995 National Junior College Tournament and finished 10th in the nation. While at Northeast, Alexander worked with Dontae Jones, the 1995 National Junior College Player of the Year, who went on to Mississippi State and was a first-round pick of the New York Knicks in the 1996 NBA Draft.

Alexander earned his A.A. degree from Northeast, his B.S. degree from Mississippi State, and his M.S. and Ed.S. from the Uni-versity of Southern Mississippi. He earned his Ph.D. in Community College Leadership from Mississippi State University.

Alexander is married to the former Cassie James of Ripley. The couple has three chil-dren, Kinsley, Colson and Noah.

Women’s Head Coach Brian Alexander

Brian Alexander

Years Position School/Organization2011-Present Head Coach NEMCC2009-2011 Head Coach Tupelo Rock-N-Rollers2006-2009 Assistant Coach (W&M) Itawamba Community College2003-2006 Assistant Coach Campbell University2001-2003 Assistant Coach Southeastern Louisiana University1998-2001 Assistant Coach University of Southern Mississippi1996-1998 Assistant Coach Columbus High School1994-1996 Student Assistant NEMCC

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When David Robbins accepted the po-sition of head men’s basketball coach at Northeast in the spring of 2005, he enthusi-astically accepted the challenge of return-ing the tradition-rich program to a place of prominence in the state and nation.

With an emphasis on doing things the right way on and off the floor, the Tigers (15-9) recorded their first winning season since the 1999-2000 season.

After stumbling in 2006-07 with nine freshmen and only four sophomores on the court, Robbins and company burst onto the MACJC scene in 2007-08.

The Tigers went 15-10, 7-5 during the regular season and captured a runner-up finish in the MACJC North Division.

After making semifinal runs in the State and Region 23 tournament, Robbins led the 2008-09 Tiger basketball team to a 12-13 record, and the 2009-10 team to a 12-11, 7-5 record.

On the hardwood in 2010-11, David Robbins led the Tiger basketball team to appearances in the MACJC State Tour-nament and the NJCAA Region XXIII Tournament after finishing as the North Division runner-up with a 7-5 mark in the North Division and an 11-14 mark over-all. The Tigers found the same opponent awaiting them in both the state and region tournaments – 19th-ranked Pearl River Community College – and the Tigers gave the Wildcats a run in the state tournament before falling in overtime 92-83.

Robbins’ team reached the national rankings during the 2012-13 season as the Tigers started the season strong and posted a 7-1 mark at the Christmas holiday break and carried a 10-2 overall record into the January 18, 2012 NJCAA Top 20 poll

where the Tigers were ranked thirteenth in the nation.

Northeast continued to build on its early success and finished the year with a 14-9 mark and tied for fourth in the North Division but lost out on a tiebreaker with Itawamba for a spot in the MACJC State Basketball Tournament.

However, the Tigers did have three players selected to the MACJC All-State team with Acie Vance (Ripley), Lavon Hooks (Atlanta, Georgia) and Jermaine Hollimon (Memphis, Tenn.) all being se-lected for postseason accolades.

Vance was the North Division’s leading scorer with 16.9 points per game and fin-ished second in the MACJC while Hooks led the North Division and the MACJC with 8.6 rebounds per game.

Hollimon and Cedric Janes of Dyers-burg, Tenn., were also selected to play in the MACJC North-South All-Star game in Decatur.

Before returning to his alma mater, Robbins spent 14 seasons as head boy’s basketball coach at Corinth High school.

During that time, Robbins led the War-riors to a 310-147 overall record, includ-ing four 30-win seasons, eight 20-win sea-sons, nine Alcorn County championships (seven straight from ‘99-’05), three North Half titles and three State Championship trophies. Robbins’ teams appeared in five State Tournaments and eight North Half Tournaments en route to a 44-15 record in post season play, a .745 winning percent-age.

In only his second season at CHS, Robbins guided the Warriors to the State Championship and a 36-5 overall mark, a school record for wins in a season. He

became the winningest coach in Warrior history with win number 267 in 2003 and picked up win number 300 with a 50-46 victory over Ripley on Jan. 11, 2005

Robbins was named the Northeast Mis-sissippi Daily Journal Coach of the Year in 2002 and 2003, and was selected to coach in the 2002 North/South All-Star Game.

Initially, Robbins also served as a phys-ical education instructor, but left the class-room to become athletic director in 2002. As AD, Robbins supervised every aspect of the athletic programs at Corinth High and Junior High Schools.

A Tippah County native, Blue Moun-tain High School graduate and former bas-ketball player and team captain at North-east Mississippi Junior College, Robbins worked at Northeast, assisting both former men’s basketball coach Harvey Childers and women’s basketball coach Ricky Ford (1987-89).

His duties included on-the-floor coach-ing and recruiting in-district as well as out-of-state players. Robbins also worked as an assistant director of student activities at Northeast (1987-1991).

Robbins earned an Associate in Arts Degree from Northeast in 1985, a Bachelor of Science degree from Millsaps College in 1987 and a master’s degree from Mis-sissippi College in 1989.

Robbins played two seasons for the Millsaps Majors and was selected the 1987 team captain.

David and his wife Pam have three chil-dren, Brandon, Mary Beth, and Brody.

Men’s Head Coach David Robbins

David Robbins

Years Position School/Organization2005-Present Head Coach NEMCC2002-2005 Head Coach/Athletic Director Corinth High School1991-2002 Head Coach Corinth High School1987-91 Assistant Coach/ NEMCC Assistant Director of Student Activities

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Maurice Stafford has made a name for him-self for a quarter-century on the sidelines helping to guide some of the southeastern region’s best basketball talent.

Before making the transition to solely a women’s assistant basketball at the beginning of the 2012-13 season, Stafford split time with the Tiger and Lady Tiger programs serving as as-sistant coach to former Lady Tiger head coach Ricky Ford, Tiger head coach David Robbins and current Lady Tiger head coach Brian Alex-ander during his eight years at Northeast.

However, before Stafford became one of the South’s top assistant coaches, the Biggersville native was a force on the hardwood himself, hail-ing from one of northeast Mississippi’s premier basketball families.

Between Maurice Stafford, his sister Phyllis Stafford-Dilworth – who was coached by Ford and won a national championship at Northeast and his brother Fred, the Stafford family can claim a pair of national championships and third place finish in the national tournament as well.

All three of the Stafford siblings are North-east alumni with Phyllis Stafford-Dilworth achieving junior college All-American status while at Northeast before being named to the All-SEC team at the University of Mississippi. Fred Stafford lead Northeast to a 56-7 record during his time in Booneville and guided the University of North Alabama Lions to a national championship after his time at Northeast.

All three Stafford siblings prepped at Big-gersville High School during the 1970s and 1980s and Maurice Stafford was heralded as one of the top five high school basketball play-ers in the state of Mississippi in 1980. Following his senior season at Biggersville, Stafford was named an All-American by Street and Smith.

During his two years at Northeast, Stafford guided the Tigers to a 56-11 record and in the process was named to the Mississippi Associa-tion of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC)

All-State and National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) All-Region XXIII teams. In both years at Northeast, Stafford helped lead the Tigers to North Half championships and to the MACJC State Championship in 1982.

In his sophomore season, Stafford led the region with a 22.5 points per game average and was named to the Who’s Who among Junior Col-lege students. Not only did Stafford impress the Magnolia State but the Biggersville native also fascinated the nation as being selected as an NJ-CAA honorable mention All-America and the Mississippi Player of the Year at the end of his sophomore campaign.

Following his time in Booneville, Stafford carried his talents to the University of North Alabama (UNA) in Florence, Ala., where he set records that still stand currently.

During his senior season at UNA, Stafford had the highest field goal percentage in the NCAA Division II history in 1984 while leading the Lions to a 27-7 record, a Gulf South Con-ference championship, a NCAA South Region championship and a third-place finish in the NCAA Division II national tournament.

Stafford’s record field goal percentage saw the Biggersville native connect on 198 of 264 shots from the floor and lead the Lions in scoring with 14.4 points per game. Stafford’s record field goal percentage remains a school record for the Lions and is second all-time in the NCAA Divi-sion II list and fourth overall in NCAA history.

In his senior year, Stafford was a first-team All-Gulf South Conference pick and was the Gulf South Conference Player of the year in both 1982-83 and 1983-84. Stafford was inducted into the UNA Hall of Fame in 1999. Following his playing days in Florence, Stafford stayed on with the Lions as a student assistant coach for a pair of seasons 1985-86 and 1986-87 while finishing up work for his bachelor of science degrees in physical education and sociology.

Stafford began his coaching career on the sidelines at the University of Tennessee at Martin in 1989 where he worked as the women’s assis-tant basketball coach and became instrumental in all phases of the game. At UT-Martin, Stafford helped shape Mary Kate Long, Tara Tansil, Gina Warren and Gwyn Long into Hall of Famers un-der Lady Skyhawk coach Sharman Coley.

Stafford also helped the Lady Skyhawks be-come on of the top teams in the nation in gradua-tion rates during his time in Martin, Tenn.

Following the 1994-95 season, Stafford re-

turned to Florence to help UNA coach Wayne Byrd where he recruited the school’s first first-team All-American – Serita Gualding. Stafford also helped Becky Maulk lead the nation in free-throw and three-point percentage during her ca-reer with the Lady Lions.

Before returning to north Mississippi, Staf-ford’s most extensive work came during a four-year stint at the University of Memphis where he served three years as assistant coach and a year as the Director of Basketball Operations under Lady Tiger coach Joye Lee-McNelis. In his duties at Memphis, Stafford was heavily involved in recruit-ing, monitoring players’ academic status, game preparation, developing the fundamental skills of the post players, team travel and public relations.

While at Memphis, Stafford was instrumen-tal in recruiting top classes of players to the Bluff City university. Under Stafford’s tutelage, Tamika Whitmore led the nation in scoring dur-ing the 1998-99 and went on to have a success-ful career in the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBA). Stafford also helped to recruit the likes of Tamika Rogers and Shannon Hemp; Raven Rogers, Jennifer Sullivan, Kenisha Hart and Victoria Crawford; along with Tamika But-ler and Latrice Booker to Memphis.

In his time at Northeast, Stafford has carried on the tradition of stressing ‘student’ in student-athlete. While helping the Lady Tigers achieve back-to-back MACJC State Championships in 2005 and 2006 and a national tournament berth in 2006, Stafford coached four Lady Tigers to All-American status. Amada Cieskiewicz was named a Distinguished Academic All-American for a 3.95 grade point average on a 4.0 scale while Marqueciqa Thomas, Jessica Hooker and Krystal Robinson all achieved All-American sta-tus on the hardwood during the 2004 (Thomas) and 2006 (Hooker and Robinson) seasons.

During the 2011-12 season, Stafford also saw the Lady Tigers become stewards of the class-room as well. Anna Brooke Page and Bree Harris were selected as NJCAA Student-Athlete Aca-demic Award honorees and a handful of Lady Ti-gers were also members of the Iota Zeta chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society while Page and Amber Jackson signed to play on the four-year level at Blue Mountain College and William Carey University, respectively.

Stafford is married to the former Karyn L. Miller of Jumpertown. They are the proud par-ents of one daughter, Sascha and proud grand-parents of one grandson, D’Kylin.

Women’s Assistant Coach Maurice Stafford

Maurice Stafford

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One of northeast Mississippi’s most pro-lific scorers has joined Northeast Missis-sippi Community College men’s basketball coach David Robbins’ staff.

Former Tiger standout Nick Coln will now help the Tiger basketballteam along-side assistant coach Maurice Stafford.

Coln comes from Olive Branch where he led the Conquistadors to a 21-8 overall mark and a 4-2 record in league play during the 2009-10 season and advance the Con-quistadors to the first round of the Missis-sippi High SchoolActivities Association’s Class 6A state basketball playoffs.

Coln is a former Northeast Tiger and helped lead the Northeast men’s basketball team to the national tournament during his sophomore season in 1999-2000.

During his sophomore year at Northeast, Coln averaged 16 points per game, was 40-percent from beyond the three-point arc and finished his sophomore season with an eight-assist per game average in 36 games with the Tigers.

However, it was in the friendly confines of the Alcorn Central High School gymna-sium that Coln made a name for himself.

Coln, who played for Alcorn Central from 1992-97, became Alcorn County’s all-time leading male scorer with 2,364 points during his varsity career and while with the Golden Bears Coln also set school records for points (794) and three-pointers made (119) and set a single-game record with 52 points against Potts Camp during his senior season in 1996-97.

While at Alcorn Central, Coln also ex-celled on the track and stillholds the school record in the triple jump with a jump of 41-feet, 8-inches.

Coln returned to coach the Golden Bears after the graduating from the University of

Louisiana at Monroe and led the Golden Bears to a 24-9 mark during the 2003-04 season.

While at the University of Louisiana-Monroe, Coln earned his stripes and was the eighth-ranked junior in the nation in three-point field goals made per game and the twenty-sixth ranked player overall na-tionally with 3.0 three-pointers a game dur-ing the 2001 season.

Coln finished his two-year career with the Indians (Warhawks, now)fifth all-time with 157 three-pointers in 432 attempts and is second behind Larry Carr in play-ers who registered just two years with the Warhawks.

When not on the hardwood at the Uni-versity of Louisiana-Monroe, Coln earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Edu-cation and Health.

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Men’s Assistant Coach Nick Coln

Nick Coln

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A north Mississippi native will begin her first year as Northeast Mississippi Commu-nity College’s athletic trainer starting with the 2012-13 academic year.

Hope Barnes, a native of Nettleton, has agreed to become Northeast’s head athletic trainer.

Barnes graduated from Nettleton High School in May 2009 and was a member of both the Lady Tiger cheerleading squad and powerlifting team, which helped set the stage for the Lady Tigers Mississippi High School Activities Association (MH-SAA) powerlifting state championship just a year later.

After her varsity career, Barnes carried her talents to the University of Southern Mississippi where she helped with various Golden Eagle and Lady Eagle sports in-cluding the successful USM football team.

Before moving to Hattiesburg, Barnes was also awarded the Haskell Scholarship,

which was named by Amory native and Hollywood veteran Sam Haskell for his mother and is given to a senior at each of the Monroe County schools plus selected seniors at Amory High School. The Haskell Foundation chooses Haskell Scholarship recipients and awards are based upon stu-dent achievement, academics, activities and other criteria.

At Nettleton High School, Barnes was

also a part of the nurse mentorship acad-emy that partnered with the North Missis-sippi Medical Center to train certified nurs-ing assistants (CNAs).

While at the University of Southern Mis-sissippi, Barnes carried on her high aca-demic standards and finished her degree in three years including all prerequisite work while splitting time with the Golden Eagle and Lady Eagle sports along with Oak Grove High School.

In May 2012, Barnes graduated with a Bachelor’s of Science in Athletic Training.

At the USM, Barnes was a member of various clubs and organizations including Eagles for Life, the Legacy and the Student Sports Medicine Association.

Even after graduation, Barnes was instru-mental in helping high school athletes by serving as one of the athletic trainers for the youth football camps at Southern Mis-sissippi.

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Arnold

When Northeast was founded in 1948, Bonner Arnold served as physical education instructor, men’ basketball coach and athletic director.

Arnold and legendary University of Kentucky Wildcat men’s basketball coach Adoph Rupp were friends and as a result of this friendship and the success of the Kentucky basketball program, Arnold wanted the school’s athletic teams to sport a similar nickname.

“Fighting Tigers” was adopted as the school’s mascot.

Later, the school’s athletic program grew to include men’s and women’s varsity sports. “Fighting” was dropped and the teams became known as the “Tigers” and “Lady Tigers.”

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Michael Joseph Miller of Milton, Fla., was hired August 25, 2008 to the Public Information Office as the Assistant Public Information Officer and Sports Information Director at Northeast Mississippi Commu-nity College.

After graduating from Milton High School in May of 1995, Miller joined the United States Navy in September of that same year and served in Pearl Harbor, Ha-waii as a Torpedomans Mate. Miller re-ceived an honorable discharge in 1998 along with the National Defense Ribbon from the Gulf War and the Good Conduct Medal for his faithful service to the country.

Upon completing his duty to the Navy, Miller decided to return to school and pursue his education and athletic aspirations.

He found his way to Northeast Mississip-pi Community College in the spring of 1999, and soon began his journey to fulfill his aca-demic and athletics aspirations as a Tiger.

As a student-athlete for Northeast playing football for the Tigers, Miller was coached by head coach Laurin Collins during the 1999 and 2000 seasons. Despite being plagued by knee injuries (torn ACL’s), he entered both seasons atop the depth chart at free safety. Miller graduated early in the fall of 2000 and was on the Dean’s List with an associate’s degree in physical education from Northeast.

After Northeast, Miller went on to play football and pursue his higher educational

goals at Troy State University and lettered in Division I-A football in 2002-03. He gradu-ated from Troy on the Dean’s List in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast jour-nalism mentoring in Media Relations and Sports Information.

Miller spent one year in the Sports Infor-mation Department at Troy as an intern for the Sports Information Director Tom Stroth-ers. He also worked part-time for the Troy State Television Department as a student-reporter, cameraman, anchorman, master control room operator, and writer for three years before graduation. As part of his work with TSU-TV, Miller was chosen to repre-sent Troy at the WAKA 8 television station in Montgomery, Ala., as a sports anchor for a contest of amateur sports anchors. He was selected as the third best anchor out of count-less of contestants by the viewing audience in 2003.

Miller worked for the Unity Broadcasting Network in Booneville in 2004 as a master control operator, cameraman, anchor, report-er, writer, and as an advertising sales repre-sentative in the public relations department.

After his work in journalism, Miller spent four years from 2004 to 2008 working for the United States government at Miltec Mis-siles and Space A Ducommun Company in Iuka. He worked as a Missiles Mechanical Technician/Inventory Clerk and was also the Media Relations representative for the Iuka facilities reporting to the home office public relations department in Huntsville, Ala.

Miller decided to get back to his first love, journalism, and came on board with Northeast Mississippi Community College in August of 2008.

His responsibilities at Northeast duties include working with members of the lo-cal media as they cover NEMCC sporting events and other campus happenings, con-structing and sending press releases to local media outlets regarding NEMCC, and help-ing the Tigers’ coaching staff recruiting ef-forts, and keeping statistics, working for the associate vice president of Public Informa-tion Tony Finch.

Miller and his wife Sabrina have two children, Elias Jude and Lydia Diane,and are members of Calvary Apostolic/Holiness Church in Corinth.

Sports Information Director Joseph Miller

Joseph Miller

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INFORMATION

DIRECTOR

BIOGRAPHY



Retired JerseysNortheast athletic department officials have announced the retirement of nine jerseys worn

by former Tiger athletes who played or are currently playing on the professional level.

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David “Nub” Strickland (‘55)

Holly SpringsDenver Broncos

(NFL)

Adrian Smith (‘56)

Kirksey, KYCincinatti Royals

(NBA)

Mike Williams (‘81)

Atmore, ALPhiladelphia Eagles (NFL)

Jackie Perry (‘86)

Jackson, TNInt’l Women’s

Basketball League Boa-Viagem, Portugal

Qyntel Woods (‘02)

Memphis, TNPortland

Trailblazers (NBA)

Michael Boireau (‘98)

North Miami, FLMinnesota Vikings

(NFL)

Dontae Jones(‘95)

Nashville, TNNew York Knicks

(NBA)

Mitch McNeely(‘94)

New AlbanyLos Angeles

Dodgers (MLB)

Jerome Woods (‘93)

Memphis, TNKansas City Chiefs

(NFL)

Go, Fight, Win“Go --- Tigers, We’re behind you.

Fight --- till the battle’s over.Win --- for --- the pride of Northeast

Gain the Victory!

Go!.........................Fight!.....................Win!.......................

N.E.M.C.C.

Lyrics by former Northeast director of bands and ‘74 alumnus Ricky Bishop.Sung to the tune of “The Victors,” (L.Elbel) the University of Michigan fight song.

Retired

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Lady Tigers looking to write their own classicWith the 2012 basketball season right

around the corner, Northeast head wom-en’s basketball coach Brian Alexander and players are expecting a big year.

Northeast – coming off a 10-14 year that saw the Lady Tigers make the Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleg-es (MACJC) State Basketball Tournament in Fulton – is looking to replace a pair of major cogs in the offensive lineup.

Sophomores Amber Jackson of Tupleo and Anna Brooke Page of Belmont both moved on to four-year institutions – Jack-son with William Carey University and Page with Blue Mountain College – so Al-exander will rely on a pair of sophomores who saw considerable playing time during the 2011-12 season to lead the Lady Tigers in 2012-13.

Kebrina Lucas of New Albany and India Howard of Ripley will be looked upon for leadership.

Lucas was the third leading scorer on the Lady Tigers’ 2011-12 team behind Page and Jackson. In her first season at North-east, Lucas averaged 9.81 points per game while tallying 216 markers during the sea-son.

Howard was the fifth leading scorer on the team averaging 6.33 points per game for the Lady Tigers.

However, point production wasn’t the only place Lucas and Howard perfected their skills. Lucas was third on the team in assists during the 2011-12 season and Howard averaged a steal a game while ap-pearing with the Lady Tigers”

Joining Lucas and Howard will be 10 fresh faces for Alexander.

“The attitude at practice is very posi-tive,” said Alexander “We’re working re-ally hard.”

Kossuth’s Katie Garvin will don the black and gold for Alexander during the 2011-12 year. Garvin originally signed with the Lady Tiger program prior to the 2011-12 season but did not see action.

In addition to Garvin – a 5-7 guard – Alexander will rely on six other true backcourt players to carry the tempo for the Lady Tigers. Garvin’s former Kossuth teammate Kiki Gwyn stands at 5-2 while Mantachie’s Shrita Dixson clocks in at the

guard spot at 5-7.Von Hall from Nettleton is also slated to

see action as the 5-7 guard battles for time with Tupelo’s Antionette Riddle (5-9) and Kay K Tate (5-8) from Dyersburg, Tenn., along with Bri Hobson, a 5-9 guard from Brandon.

In the front court, Alexander answers with a quintet of combination guard/for-wards as Lucas and Howard both make the cut along withBelmont’s Angelia Allen, Rosedale’s LaTonya Gadison and Tupelo’s Aushina Ivy.

Height will be an advantage for the Lady Tigers because both Ivy and Gadison clear the 5-10 mark and the Lady Tigers picked up a big signee from Chicago, Illinois – Jeremeica Moore – who towers in at 6-2.

Alexander was also able to sign Talisa Boyd, a 5-10 sophomore from Natchi-toches, Louisiana, who averaged five points and five rebounds a game for Panola College last year.

However, Alexander knows that to win a championship it will take hard work and dedication and a little something extra.

“Our staff wants the fans and student body to know that we love them and can’t win a championship without them,” Alex-ander said. “We want everyone to be there for the season opener.”

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No. 11Kiki Gwyn

5-2Guard

FreshmanCorinth

No. 12Antionette Riddle

5-9Guard

FreshmanTupelo

No. 14Bri Hobson

5-4Guard

FreshmanBrandon

No. 20LaTonya Gadison

5-10Guard/Forward

Rosedale

No. 21Shrita Dixon

5-7Guard

Mantachie

No. 22Kebrina Lucas

5-6Guard/Forward

SophomoreNew Albany

No. 24Von Hall

5-7Guard

FreshmanNettleton

No. 10Katie Garvin

5-7Guard

SophomoreCorinth

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No. 25Angelia Allen

5-9Guard/Forward

FreshmanBelmont

No. 32Kay K Tate

5-8Guard

FreshmanDyersburg, Tenn.

No. 33Aushina Ivy

5-10Guard/Forward

Tupelo

No. 35India Howard

5-8Guard/Forward

SophomoreRipley

No. 40Talisa Boyd

5-10Guard/Forward

Natchitoches, La

No. 45Jermerica Moore

6-2Forward/Center

Chicago, Ill.

WOMEN‘S

BIOGRAPHIES



2012-13 Lady TigersNo. Player Position Class Height Hometown10 Katie Garvin Guard Sophomore 5-7 Corinth11 Kiki Gwyn Guard Freshman 5-2 Corinth12 Antionette Riddle Guard Freshman 5-9 Tupelo14 Bri Hobson Guard Freshman 5-4 Brandon, Miss20 LaTonya Gadison Guard/Forward Freshman 5-10 Rosedale21 Shrita Dixson Guard Freshman 5-7 Mantachie22 Kebrina Lucas Guard/Forward Sophomore 5-6 New Albany24 Von Hall Guard Freshman 5-7 Nettleton25 Angelia Allen Guard/Foward Freshman 5-9 Belmont32 Kay K Tate Guard Freshman 5-8 Dyersburg, Tenn.33 Aushina Ivy Guard/Forward Freshman 5-10 Tupelo35 India Howard Guard/Forward Sophomore 5-8 Ripley40 Talisa Boyd Guard/Forward Sophomore 5-10 Natchioches45 Jermerica Moore Forward/Center Freshman 6-2 Chicago, Ill.

Head Coach: Brian Alexander, Ph.D. (Mississippi State, 1998), 2nd YearAssistant Coaches: Maurice Stafford, (North Alabama), 9th YearStudent Assistants: Kierra Erby, 1st Year; Samone Armstead, 1st YearAthletic Trainer: Hope Barnes, (University of Southern Mississippi, 2012), 1st YearPresident: Dr. Johnny L. Allen, Ed.D.

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2012-13 TigersNo. Player Position Class Height Hometown11 Acie Vance Guard Sophomore 6-2 Ripley12 Darius Leach Guard Freshman 5-9 Booneville14 Markeevius Brown Guard Freshman 5-9 Mound Bayou22 Ian Burress Guard Freshman 5-9 Baldwyn23 Keldrick Lesley Guard Freshman 6-1 Booneville24 Tadarious Coburn Forward Sophomore 6-6 New Albany30 Billy Jackson Guard Freshman 6-0 Tunica33 Ladarius Waits Guard Freshman 5-10 Olive Branch34 Romeo Johnson Forward Freshman 6-5 Oxford40 Malcolm Hamilton Guard Sophomore 6-2 Atlanta, Ga.42 Johnnie McGhee Guard Freshman 6-3 Olive Branch44 KeDorian Sullivan Forward Sophomore 6-7 Memphis, Tenn.50 Tyler Brunson Forward Sophomore 6-8 Atlanta, Ga.52 Marcell Lucas Forward Sophomore 6-3 Baldwyn54 Cameron Shorty Forward Freshman 6-5 Senatobia

Head Coach: David RobbinsAssistant Coaches: Nick ColnStudent Assistants: Ben Hurt

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No. 11Acie Vance

Guard6-2

SophomoreRipley

No. 12Darius Leach

Guard5-19

FreshmanBooneville

No. 14Markeevius Brown

Guard5-9

FreshmanMound Bayou

No. 22Ian Burress

Guard5-9

FreshmanBaldwyn

No. 23Keldrick Lesley

Guard 6-1

FreshmanBooneville

No. 24Tadarious Coburn

Forward6-6

SophomoreNew Albany

No. 30Billy Jackson

Guard6-0

FreshmanTunica

No. 33Ladarius Waits

Guard5-10

FreshmanOlive Branch

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No. 34Romeo Johnson

Forward6-5

FreshmanOxford

No. 42Johnnie McGhee

Guard6-3

FreshmanOlive Branch

No. 44KeDorian Sullivan

Forward6-7

SophomoreMemphis, Tenn.

No. 50Tyler Brunson

Forward6-8

SophomoreAtlanta, Ga.

No. 52Marcell Lucas

Forward6-3

SophomoreBaldwyn

No. 40Malcolm Hamilton

Guard6-2

SophomoreAtlanta, Ga.

No. 54Cameron Shorty

Forward6-5

FreshmanSenatobia

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Tigers want to return to prominenceNortheast Tiger basketball team is ready

step onto the hardwood again after starting off hot last year.

During the opening two months of the season, Northeast won six of its first eight games before hitting a slide in the middle part of the year and wound up finishing 14-10 on the year.

However, Tiger head coach David Rob-bins is determined to not let that scenario play out again.

Northeast made strides this offseason seeking out the talent.

“We are really pleased with the guys up to this point and looking forward to officially getting started,” Robbins said. “Coach (Nick) Coln identified some really solid players last spring and we were able to get them to come on board.”

Robbins also spoke about the keys to this year’s season.

“We need to stay healthy and continue to work hard every day,” Robbins said. “Our depth should be a plus for us and we have some bigs that can step out on the pe-rimeter and play.”

Northeast is freshmen loaded but Rob-bins is looking at the size of his recruiting class as a positive.

“I have been very pleased and look for them to have an impact,” Robbins said.

However, Robbins knows that it will be the sophomore leadership of Tadarious Coburn, Acie Vance and Marcell Lucas that carry the Tigers during the 2012-13 season.

“Our sophomores have been tested and are looking forward to getting started,” Robbins said. “We will lean on our older guys for the most part but we do have some freshmen that will see quality minutes.”

Robbins will be relying on freshmen Markeevius Brown from Mound Bayou, Ian Burress from Baldwyn, Billy Jackson from Tunica, Romeo Johnson from Oxford, Cameron Shorty from Senatobia and two pair of Booneville and Oxfordsignees.

Johnnie McGhee and Ladarius Waits both hail from Olive Branch while Rob-bins also signed two Booneville products in Darius Leach and Keldrick Lesley.

Robbins and Coln also hit the recruiting trails hard during the offseason and came away with not only Waits – who signed

with William Penn University out of high school – but with the Atlanta, Ga., duo of Tyler Brunson and Malcolm Hamilton.

Robbins was also able to score Ke-Dorian Sullivan away from Alcorn State University.

Northeast will open its 2012-13 season against East Central onNovember 5 before hitting the road for three games against Wallace State-Hanceville (Nov. 8), Jones County (Nov. 12) and East Central (Nov. 15) before returning to the friendly con-fines of Bonner Arnold Coliseum on Nov. 19 and Nov. 26 for games against Gadsden State (Ala.) and Meridian.

Northeast opens its North Division schedule at Itawamba Community College on November 29 and has its first North Di-vision home game on December 3 against Northwest Mississippi.

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All-AmericansThroughout the history of Northeast Mississippi Community College, superior athletes have been named to the All-American

team, the highest honor bestowed upon any player.Recipients of this honor are chosen by the 23 regional directors of the National Junior College Athletic Association. Their

selection for the All-American team, second team and honorable mention are made only after careful evaluation of the hundreds of nominations which are submitted by community/junior college coaches from across the country.

We are proud to salute those who brought honor to themselves as young men and women and to Northeast Mississippi Com-munity College for the time to come.

Baseball

2008Chase Porch

Designated HitterThird Team East Union

Fast-Pitch Softball

2001Lori WilsonFirst Base

All-AmericanBlue Mountain

2002Jessica Spain

ShortstopAll-American

NFCA Louisville SluggerBooneville

2003Jocelyn McGolrick

PitcherNFCA All-American

Richmond, BC, Canada

2003Brandi Vondenstein

Third BaseHonorable Mention

NFCA All-AmericanRayne, La.

2003 Charity Graham

OutfielderNFCA All-American

2nd TeamMantachie

2004Josie Lindgrin

PitcherNFCA All-American

2nd TeamVancouver, BC, Canada

2004Paige Wright

ShortstopAll-American

Southaven

2004Staranna Fraizer

OutfielderThird Team

NFCA All-American2nd Team

New Albany

2007Shanika “Boo” Randle

OutfielderNFCA All-American

Houston

2007Kelly Hankins

InfielderDistinguished Academic

All-AmericanMooreville

2008Callie Weaver

ShortstopNFCA All-American

Houston

Football

1956 Jerry King

Running BackAll-American

Chattanooga, Tenn

1969 Johnny Buskirk

Quarterback Honorable Mention

New Albany

1969Donnie Clayton

Tight End Honorable Mention

Ripley

1977Larry Parker

Running BackHonorable Mention

Rogersville, Ala.

1977Barry Todd

Defensive BackSecond Team

Memphis, Tenn.

1979Maury Hill

Defensive Back Second Team

Ripley

1980 Paul Rhodes

Defensive LinemanSecond Team

Kossuth

1980Anthony Norman

Running BackHonorable Mention

Morrow, Ga.

2010Antonio Foster

Offensive LinemanHonorabal Mention

Valdosta, Ga.

2011Deion Belue

Defensive BackHonorable Mention

Deshler, Ala.

Golf

1990Craig Lauderdale

All-AmericanBooneville

2007Chase WilliamsAll-American

Corinth

2010Blake HatfieldAll-American

Booneville

Men's Basketball

1950 Gene Garrett

Guard All-AmericanLaCenter, Ky.

1951Ken Lindsey

ForwardAll-American

Booneville

1954Charles “Doodle” Floyd

ForwardAll-American

Water Valley, Ky.

1956Adrian “Odie” Smith

GuardAll-AmericanKirksey, Ky.

1959Vincent Del Negro

ForwardAll-American

Springfield, Mass.

1968Gaylon Baird

ForwardAll-American

Myrtle

1982Maurice Stafford

ForwardHonorable Mention

Biggersville

1984Anthony Anderson

GuardSecond TeamNew Albany

1989Anthony Gamble

ForwardAll-American

Booneville

1989Clay Johnson

GuardAll-American

Booneville

1995Dontae Jones

ForwardAll-American

Nashville, Tenn.

1998Tim Cole

GuardAll-American

Memphis, Tenn.

2000Eric Batchelor

ForwardAll-American

Memphis, Tenn.

2002Qyntel Woods

ForwardAll-American

Memphis, Tenn.

Slow-Pitch Softball

2000Stephanie Stubblefield

InfielderAll-American

Ecru

Women’s

Basketball

1986Jackie Perry

ForwardAll-AmericanJackson, Tenn.

1986Kunshinge Sorrell

Point GuardAll-American

Booneville

1987Sherry Slayton

ForwardAll-American

Belmont

1987Phyllis Stafford

CenterAll-AmericanBiggersville

1988Evelyn Thompson

ForwardAll-AmericanLaGrange, Ga.

1998Tiffany Sitton

ForwardAll-American

Glen

2001Tamica Pierce

ForwardAll-AmericanDecatur, Ga.

2004Marqueciqa Thomas

ForwardAll-American

Jackson

2006Jessica Hooker

ForwardAll-American

Brownsville, Tenn.

2006Krystal Robinson

ForwardAll-American

Covington, Tenn.

All

Americans



Northeast’s home for its men and wom-en’s basketball teams underwent exten-sive changes prior to the 2009-10 season and David Robbins’ Tiger basketball team christened the newly-renovated Bonner Arnold Coliseum with a 91-87 win over Northwest-Shoals (Ala.) Community Col-lege on November 5, 2009.

Bonner Arnold Coliseum, home to the Lady Tiger and Tiger basketball team, underwent intensive changes during the 2008-09 and 2009-10 season with renova-tions completing in August 2009.

Northeast invested nearly $1.5 million into renovation Bonner Arnold Coliseum that has seen its share of memorable events.

During the 1999-2000 season the Lady Tigers and Tigers re-established Bonner Arnold Coliseum as one of the toughest basketball venues among Mississippi’s community/junior colleges by claiming both the women and men’s North Division titles for the first time since the end of the 1992-93 season. The two teams finished the 1999-2000 campaign with a combined record of 27-4. The Tigers went on the cap-ture the State Championship in front of the home crowd as they did in 1994.

The Lady Tigers won back-to-back-to-

back North Division crowns during the 2004, 2005 and 2006 seasons while posting a 28-4 mark in the legendary building.

Built in part by the Northeast Mississip-pi Junior College Trades Training group, Bonner Arnold Coliseum opened its doors in 1951. During the three previous years,

the Lady Tigers and Tigers played their home games at the old Booneville High School gymnasium.

From November 1988 to February 1990, the Tigers put together a 29-game home winning streak at Bonner Arnold Colise-um, which included a Region 23 Tourna-

Home Sweet Home: Bonner Arnold Coliseum

Bonner Arnold Coliseum, home to the Lady Tiger and Tiger basketball team, under-went intensive changes during the 2008-09 and 2009-10 sea-son with renovations complet-ing in August 2009. Northeast invested nearly $1.5 million into renovation Bonner Ar-nold Coliseum that has seen its share of memorable events.

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ment championship in March of 1989. Hinds Community College snapped the streak in the 1990 State Championship game.

In the early 1970s, Bonner Arnold Coliseum was completely renovated. The most significant addition was twelve air condition-ing units.

In 1988, 1,000 chair back seats were installed on the east side that were the original box seats at the University of Mississippi’s Vaught-Hemingway Stadium.

Bonner Arnold Coliseum’s most recent updates include the repair and renovation of the men and women’s dressing rooms along with the painting of interior and exterior trim. A new roof was installed on the building to go along with a repair to the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment.

Bonner Arnold Coliseum’s exterior also got a facelift with tuck-pointing and repair to mortar joints in the brickwork.

Fans will notice two changes to the coliseum’s inside. Both sides of the gymnasium have been equipped with padded

chair-back seating donated by the University of Mississippi. The floor of Bonner Arnold Coliseum was also updated with repair to the hardwood and the playing surface was completely refinished with a new paint job.

When set up for basketball, BAC will accommodate 1,000 spec-tators on each side of the floor and 600 in the pullout bleachers traditionally set up on the north end. The south end will seat 400 in folding chairs, bringing capacity to 3,000.

Although the three-court facility was designed primarily for bas-ketball, Bonner Arnold Coliseum is used for commencement exer-cises, assemblies, concerts and the District, 4 Science Fair.

Bonner Arnold Coliseum also houses the offices of the head men’s basketball coach David Robbins and assistant men’s basket-ball coach Nick Coln.

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Northeast celebrated a pair of firsts when its fifth Sports Hall of Fame class was inducted on Saturday, October 20 during Homecoming 2012 fes-tivities.

Northeast saw its first softball player to be enshrined into the Sports Hall of Fame and also see first athletes from the 2000s inducted.

With nomination and induction criteria stating that former Northeast coaches and athletes have to be out of collegiate athletics for at least five years before induction, a pair of athletes from the early 2000s will make the hall in 2012.

Joining the already 25 former coaches, athletes and athletic contribu-tors in the Northeast Sports Hall of Fame will be women’s basketball player Audrey Covington, men’s basketball players Guy Gardner and Freddie Co-peland, softball player BrandiVondenstein Dannelly and alumni Malcolm Kuykendall.

Covington, Gardner, Copeland, Vondenstein Dannelly and Kuykendall will join an illustrious cast of Northeast Sports Hall of Fame inductees.

In 2011, Northeast saw Ricky Ford, Jim Drewry, Johnny Buskirk, Vin-cent Del Negro and Sherry Slayton Holland all enshrined into the hall of fame. Drewry and Buskirk are both former football players for the Tigers while Ford, Del Negro and Slayton starred on the hardwood for the Tigers and Lady Tigers. Ford, who guided the Lady Tiger basketball program for 30 years, also serves as athletic director and dean of student services for the college.

During the 2010 induction, former Tiger football and baseball player Mike Grier, former Tiger basketball player Jack Martin, former Lady Tiger basketball players Kunshinge Sorrell Howard and Phyllis Stafford Dilworth and former football and softball coach and athletic director David Carnell all became members of the Sports Hall of Fame.

In its second year (2009), Northeast Sports Hall of Fame inducted five members to join the initial 10 inductees with former basketball players Ger-ald Caveness, Clyde Jones, Evelyn Thompson, and football player Larry Parker along with former Tiger basketball coach Harvey Childers all induct-ed during the second year.

Northeast’s inaugural inductees of ten former coaches, players and sup-porters of Northeast Mississippi Community College athletics included Har-old T. White, W.B. ‘Bill’ Ward, Ken Lindsey, Chuck ‘Doodle’ Floyd, Gene Garrett, Adrian Smith, Kenneth ‘Cat’ Robbins, David ‘Nub’ Strickland, Ear-line ‘Woodsie’ Woods and Bonner Arnold.

Biographies:

Audrey Covington (Women’s Basketball 1986-87, 1987-88)Audrey Covington starred on the hardwood during one of the most suc-

cessful periods for the Lady Tiger basketball team.During her first year, Covington helped lead Ricky Ford’s Lady Tigers

to the 1986-87 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Na-tional Championship with a perfect 34-0 record.

In Covington’s first year, Northeast swept through the regular season and knocked off Northwest Mississippi Community College 80-78 in the Missis-sippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) State Champi-onship before heading to the NJCAA Region XXIII Tournament.

In the Region XXIII Tournament, Northeast earned a return trip to the national tournament in Senatobia by dispatching Utica (Hinds) in the cham-pionship game and the Lady Tigers rode that momentum to a four-game winning streak in theDivision I women’s national tournament – including knocking off St. Gregory’s in the national championship game 68-64.

In addition to winning the NJCAA national championship, Covington was a two-year starter under Ford and was named to the MACJC All-State and the NJCAA All-Region teams during her time in Booneville.

Following her career as a Lady Tiger, Covington stayed with the Tiger theme when she signed to play with Memphis State University for a pair of seasons in 1988-89 and 1989-90.

Benjamin Guy Gardner (Men’s Basketball 1998-99, 1999-2000)Benjamin Guy Gardner helped lead the Northeast Tiger basketball team

back to the national tournament during his time in Booneville.Gardner, a two-time Tiger Award recipient, was captain of the 2000 Tiger

basketball team that captured the Mississippi Association of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) North Division, the MACJC State Champion-ship and the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XXIII championship en route to a NJCAA national tournament appearance under former Tiger basketball coach Mike Lewis.

During his sophomore year in Booneville, Gardner finished the year sec-ond in assists and steals and was named to the MACJC All-State first team and the NJCAA RegionXXIII team as well.

Following his sophomore campaign, Gardner was selected to play in the MACJC Mississippi JUCO All-Star game in Decatur.

When not busy on the hardwood for the Tigers, Gardner was selected as Mr. Northeast Mississippi Community College and was also honored as an inductee into the Northeast Student Hall of Fame.

Gardner was also elected as a Student Government Association (SGA) freshman class favorite during his first year at Northeast and was a member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

Gardner parlayed his successful Tiger career into a career with the Mis-sissippi State University Bulldog basketball team where he helped the Bull-dogs win the Southeastern Conference (SEC) Tournament championship in 2002.

Gardner helped lead the Bulldog basketball team to 27 wins – the most ever at that time – and was awarded the coveted Babe McCarthy Award at Mississippi State University.

Gardner also excelled in the classroom for the Bulldogs as well and was named to the All-SEC Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll and was a member of the Dean’s andPresident’s list while earning his Master’s in Education in Educa-tional Administration in Starkville.

Freddie Copeland (Men’s Basketball 1973-74, 1974-75)Freddie Copeland was one of the Tiger basketball team’s most prolific

scorers during the mid-1970s.Copeland donned the Tiger black and gold in 1973-74 and 1974-75 and

became a mainstay in the statistical categories for Northeast. Copeland led the Tigers in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage during his time as a Tiger.

Copeland was also honored with the prestigious Tiger Award during his time in Booneville and was named to the Mississippi Association of Com-munity/Junior Colleges (MACJC) All-State basketball team.

Against Coahoma Community College on February 8, 1975, Copeland showed his scoring prowess by dropping 46 points against the Tigers in a 113-89 win over Coahoma.

After his time at Northeast, Copeland used his basketball talents to help guide the University of North Alabama Lions to one of its best seasons in school history.

In his junior season at UNA, Copeland helped the Lions post a 19-6 over-all mark and a 9-4 record in the Gulf South Conference.

UNA’s 19 wins was one of the best seasons in school history and the Lions’ 12 home wins set a school-record for most wins by a Lion basketball team at that time.

Not only did Copeland help transform his basketball teams offensively, Copeland was a threat on the defensive side of the ball as well. Under Lion head coach Bill Jones, Copeland and the Lions held the opposition to just 65 points a game during his junior season.

While at UNA, Copeland led the team in field goal percentage and re-bounds while being named a small college honorable mention All-American and the Most Valuable Player of the Gulf South Conference.

Brandi Vondenstein Dannelly (Softball 2001-02, 2002-03)Brandi Vondenstein Dannelly becomes the first Northeast Mississippi

Community College (NEMCC) softball player to be inducted into the col-lege’s Sports Hall of Fame.

UnderVondenstein’s guidance, Northeast’s softball team reached the Na-tional Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) National Tournament

NE welcomes five into Sports Hall of Fame

2012

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during her final year in Booneville.During her two years in Booneville, Vondenstein led the Lady Tiger soft-

ball team to a combined 58-29 and remarkable 28-4 record in the North Division.

In the 2003 season, Northeast finished the year 32-17 and perfect in the North at 12-0 while winning the North Division title, the NJCAA Region XXIII championship and appeared in the NJCAA National Tournament in Dodge City, Iowa.

Vondenstein became a hard ‘out’ for the opposition and struck out just two times in 129 at bats during her sophomore season – an average of one strikeout per every 64.5 at bats for the Lady Tiger third baseman.

In addition to helping lead the Lady Tigers to the national tourna-ment, Vondenstein was named an National Fast-Pitch Coaches’ Associa-tion (NFCA) All-Region Louisville Slugger, an NJCAA All-American, an MACJC All-State selection and was picked to be part of the NFCA’s All-South Region team following her sophomore year.

In 2003, Vondenstein also served as team captain of the Lady Tiger soft-ball team and was named an NJCAA Academic All-American.

After her time at Northeast, Vondenstein donned the black and green for Delta State and became an All-Gulf South Conference player at third base for the Lady Statesmen.

During her two years at Delta State, Vondenstein started 112 of 115 games for the Lady Statesmen and was on the Gulf South Conference’s All-Academic Team and was honored by the Mississippi Board of Trustees of the State Institutions of Higher Learning with the Hollbrook Award for Aca-demic Distinction in 2005.

Vondenstein later led the Bayou Academy Lady Colts to a Mississippi Association of Independent Schools (MAIS) state championship in softball in 2006 – and had an 83-18 record with the Lady Colts. Vondenstein’s state championship in 2006 helped set the stage for five-consecutive state cham-pionships by the Lady Colts.

Malcolm Kuykendall (Alumni)Former Tiger Malcolm Kuykendall came to Northeast Mississippi Junior

College in 1966-68 and spent the rest of his professional life in education.Since transferring from Northeast in 1968, Kuykendall went on to get

his Bachelor’s of Science in Education from Delta State University in 1970 and his masters of education from the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in 1977.

However it was the time that Kuykendall spend on the hardwood and as a high school and school district administrator where the former Tiger left his mark.

After a two-year stint at Nettleton High School (1970-72), Kuykendall relocated to Pine Grove and it was between Pine Grove and Belmont (1982-95) where Kuykendall brought back eight state championships and four state runner-up finishes to the northeast Mississippi region.

During his 10 years at Pine Grove (1972-82), Kuykendall won three state championships in 1977, 1981 and 1982.

At Belmont (1982-95), Kuykendall found his calling with five state championships and four state runner-up finishes.

Kuykendall captured the state championship in 1983, 1985, 1986, 1988 and in his final year 1995 and finished as the state runner-up in 1984, 1989, 1990 and 1991.

During his coaching career, Kuykendall compiled a 669-139 record while coaching women’s basketball and a 348-182 mark while coaching men’s basketball. Kuykendall was named the Mississippi Coach of the Year four times – 1981, 1985, 1988 and 1993 – and was his district’s coach of the year eight times.

Kuykendall was inducted into the Mississippi Association of Coaches’ Hall of Fame in 2000, the Delta State University Coaches Hall of Fame in 2001 and was a member of the inaugural class of inductees for the Northeast Mississippi Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2009.

In addition to his coaching time, Kuykendall was also an assistant prin-cipal and principal in the Tishomingo County Special Municipal Separate School District for almost a quarter of a century where he helped the district reach new heights as it was recognized with some the highest accountability rankings according to both Mississippi and federal standards.

Kuykendall wrapped up his educational career as the Superintendent for the Tishomingo County Special Municipal Separate School District where the district had one of the best graduation and dropout rates according to Mississippi Accountability Standards.

Under Kuykendall’s leadership, the Tishomingo County Special Munici-pal Separate School District was recognized as a High Performing District each year.

Kuykendall was a member of the Mississippi Association of School Su-perintendents (MASS) Board of Directors in 2011 and 2012 and was named the 2012 Mississippi Superintendent of the year.

2012

S P O R T S H A L L O F F A M E

Sports Hall of Fame InducteesNortheast Sports Hall of Fame MACJC Sports

Hall of Fame2011

Kunshigne Sorrell Howard, Women’s Basketball

2010David “Nub” Strickland, Football

2009Harvey Childers, Men’s Basketball Coach

2008Kenneth Lindsey, Men’s Basketball

Harold T. White, Football/College President

2007Adrian Smith, Men’s Basketball

Bonner Arnold, Basketball Coach/Athletic Director

W.B. “Bill” Ward, Football Coach/Athletic Director

2008David ‘Nub’ Strickland, FootballW.B. “Bill” Ward, Football coach/Athletic DirectorKenneth “Cat” Robbins, Basketball CoachKenneth Lindsey, Men’s BasketballChuck “Doodle” Floyd, Men’s BasketballGene Garrett, Men’s BasketballAdrian Smith, Men’s BasketballBonner Arnold, Basketball Coach/Athletic DirectorHarold T. White, Football/College PresidentEarline “Woodsie” Woods, Supporter

2009Harvey Childers, Men’s Basketball CoachGerald Caveness, Men’s BasketballClyde Jones, Men’s BasketballLarry Parker, FootballEvelyn Thompson, Women’s Basketball

2010 Michael Grier, FootballKunshigne Sorrell Howard, Women’s Basketball

Phyllis Stafford Dilworth, Women’s BasketballJack Martin, Men’s BasketballDavid Carnell, Sr., Softball Coach/Athletic Director

2011Ricky Ford, Women’s Basketball Coach/Athletic Dir.

Jim Drewry, FootballJohnny Buskirk, FootballVincent Del Negro, Men’s BasketballSherry Slayton, Women’s Basketball

2012Audrey Covington, Women’s BasketballBenjamin Guy Gardner, Men’s BasketballFreddie Copeland, Men’s BasketballBandi Vondenstein Dannelly, SoftballMalcolm Kuykendall, Alumni



Northeast athletics continued to prove that it was one of the best athletic programs in not just the Mississippi Association of Community/Junior College (MACJC) but in the nation as well. From the softball diamond, to the football gridiron to the basketball hardwood, Northeast’s athletic programs were continu-ally ranked by the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) as one of the best in the nation.

Leading the way during the 2011-12 season was the Lady Tiger softball team that brought back a MACJC state runner-up trophy to Booneville. Under the guid-ance of head coach Jody Long, Northeast finished the season with a 32-19 record and posted a school-record for North Division wins with 17. During the course of the 2011-12 season, Northeast finished as the third team from the North Division but parlayed that finish into a state runner-up finish against Jones County at the MACJC State Tournament in Fulton and then continued its postseason momentum as Northeast was one of the last three teams left standing at the NJCAA Region XXIII Tournament in Clinton.

Long’s Lady Tigers not only did work on the field but were successful in the classroom as well with seven member of the Northeast softball team being selected for NJCAA Student-Athlete Academic Awards and the team as a whole was hon-ored by the NJCAA for its academic work when the Lady Tigers were ranked as the thirteenth best team in the nation with a 3.42 overall grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale.

Northeast’s highlight of the year came during it annual StrikeOut Cancer dou-bleheader that saw redshirt freshman Jaisa Fox (Cincinnati, Ohio) throw a perfect game against Mississippi Delta and freshman pitcher Erin Dixson (Amherst, New York) followed up with a no-hitter in the nightcap. For her effort, Fox was named the NJCAA Pitcher of the Week and by the end of the season, Northeast was receiv-ing votes in the NJCAA Top 20 Softball Poll.

On the heels of the softball team’s success, Ricky Smither’s football team turned in a 6-4 record while playing one of the toughest schedules in the MACJC. During the course of the 2011 season, Northeast faced off against three teams that were ranked during the season including the eventual NJCAA national and MACJC state champion East Mississippi, sixth-place Mississippi Gulf Coast and Northwest Mississippi. After starting the season strong, Smither and crew were ranked as high as twelfth in the country during the October 4, 2011 NJCAA Top 20 football poll and capitalized on that 5-0 start to a place in the MACJC State Foot-ball Playoffs. Northeast carried South Division winner Mississippi Gulf Coast too overtime before falling on the Bulldogs’ home field 20-17. With the football team’s success, Northeast athletes were also selected for individual honors by the NJCAA.

Deion Belue, a corner back from Tuscumbia, Ala., was named an NJCAA hon-orable mention All-American while Frankie Lee, a defensive back from Charles-ton, was picked as the NJCAA Player of the Week when the Tigers knocked off Northwest Mississippi in Senatobia behind Lee’s three interceptions.

Under first-year head coach Brian Alexander, the Lady Tiger basketball team finished 9-15 overall but qualified for the MACJC State Basketball Tournament in Fulton with a dramatic 104-102 overtime win against Mississippi Delta on Sopho-more Night at Bonner Arnold Coliseum in Booneville. Led by sophomore Anna Brooke Page of Belmont and Amber Jackson of Tupelo, the Northeast Lady Tiger basketball team adapted to Alexander’s style of play and ended up giving Copiah-Lincoln a run during the first round of the MACJC State Tournament before falling 76-63 to the Lady Wolves. Under Page and Jackson’s leadership, the Lady Tigers not only became a force on the hardwood but also became stewards in the class-room as well with Page and Bree Harris of New Site being selected for NJCAA Student-Athlete Academic Awards at the end of the season.

In addition the NJCAA Student-Athlete Academic Awards, a handful of Lady Tigers were also members of the Iota Zeta chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa honor society and Page and Jackson signed to play on the four-year level at Blue Moun-tain College and William Carey University, respectively.

Under Kent Farris, Northeast’s baseball team once again advanced to the MACJC State Baseball Playoffs after knocking off rival Itawamba during a Sopho-more Day doubleheader at Harold T. White Field in Booneville.

After falling behind 8-0 to the Indians, Northeast responded with 18 unan-swered runs over its next four at bats in run-ruling Itawamba 18-8 in six innings. The 10-run win on Wednesday, April 25 springboarded the Tigers into the MACJC State Baseball Playoffs where the Tigers played a marathon game one against Mis-sissippi Gulf Coast that ended at 1 a.m. at Biloxi High School after the best-of-three series was moved to Biloxi due to inclement weather.

On the year, Northeast finished 18-28 but 13-10 in the North Division and

was the fourth seed from the division while eight Tigers went on to sign four-year scholarships. Taylor Bonifacio (Hurley), Daymon Eriksen (Grand Prairie, Texas), Morgan McCarley (Vina, Ala.) and Eric Wilson (Southaven) each signed with the University of North Alabama while Beau Cummings (Myrtle), Corey Smith (New Albany) and Trae Allison (Hernando) all agreed to become Toppers at Blue Moun-tain College. Blake Littlejohn of Pontotoc signed to play for the Majors at Millsaps College in Jackson.

Under David Robbins, Northeast men’s basketball team started the season strong and posted a 7-1 mark at the Christmas holiday break and carried a 10-2 overall record into the January 18, 2012 NJCAA Top 20 poll where the Tigers were ranked thirteenth in the nation. Northeast continued to build on its early success and finished the year with a 14-9 mark and tied for fourth in the North Division but lost out on a tiebreaker with Itawamba for a spot in the MACJC State Basketball Tournament. However, the Tigers did have three players selected to the MACJC All-State team with Acie Vance (Ripley), Lavon Hooks (Atlanta, Georgia) and Jermaine Hollimon (Memphis, Tenn.) all being selected for postseason accolades. Vance was the North Division’s leading scorer with 16.9 points per game and fin-ished second in the MACJC while Hooks led the North Division and the MACJC with 8.6 rebounds per game. Hollimon and Cedric Janes of Dyersburg, Tenn., were also selected to play in the MACJC North-South All-Star game in Decatur.

Under the tutelage of first-year head coach Lynn Smither; the Tiger and Lady Tiger tennis teams saw a variety of success. In just her second match as tennis coach, Smither helped both the Tigers and Lady Tigers sweep nationally-ranked Hinds in Raymond and set the tone for the rest of the season.

Northeast’s Lady Tiger tennis team finished with a 5-8 overall mark but ad-vanced deep in the MACJC State Tennis Championships in Tupelo thanks to mo-mentum from the last three matches of the regular season. Northeast finished the regular season with a three-match winning streak dispatching Holmes twice and East Central in a 10-day span.

On the men’s side of the nets, Northeast’s Tiger tennis team posted a 3-10 overall record but came within one point of winning three other matches on the year dropping 5-4 decisions to Holmes, Copiah-Lincoln and nationally-ranked Mississippi Gulf Coast. During the season, the Tigers helped secure the sweep of nationally-ranked Hinds early in the year and completed the season sweep ofEast Central with 6-3, 8-1 decisions over the Warriors.

Under first year head coach Mike Anderson, Northeast’s golf team recorded its highest finish of the year when it mattered the most. Northeast finished fifth at the NJCAA Region XXIII Tournament at Big Oaks in Tupelo -- an event the Tigers hosted.

During the 2012 season, the Tigers started and capped their seasons with fifth place finishes – their best finishes of the year. In the opening Mississippi Asso-ciation of Community/Junior Colleges (MACJC) tour stop of the year hosted by Mississippi Gulf Coast, the Tigers finished in a tie for fifth and in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XXIII Golf Championships Northeast also brought home a fifth place finish.

In between the two fifth place finishes, Northeast carded a seventh place finish at the second MACJC tour stop of the year hosted by Hinds Community College, a sixth place finish at the third tour stop of the year hosted by Copiah-Lincoln Com-munity College.

Northeast also came away with a seventh place finish at the fourth tour stop of the year hosted by East Mississippi Community College held at the Mississippi State University golf course and in their final regular season match, the Tigers ral-lied on the second day to finish sixth in the Northwest Invitational. At Riverbirch in Amory, Northeast marked a seventh place finish in the MACJC State Golf Cham-pionships hosted by Itawamba Community College before moving on to region.

Under the direction of Jennifer Johnson, the 10-member Northeast cheerlead-ing squad continued to show support for Tiger and Lady Tiger athletics and serve as an ambassador for the Northeast athletic program. From on the sidelines of a football game to the hardwood of a gymnasium, Northeast cheerleaders were on hand to cheer on the Tiger and Lady Tigers and actively engaged crowd support for the Northeast teams. Correl Hoyle of Tiplersville was chosen as the Tiger mascot “Spirit” for the 2011-12 team and engaged the crowd.

Northeast’s cheerleading squad was not just limited to sporting events, Cheer-leaders were a vital part of being an ambassador for Northeast athletics -- from Northeast Now, to the annual “Friends of the Tiger” golf tournament to the Boon-eville Christmas parade, Northeast cheerleaders were on the forefront of showing the community Northeast athletics.

Athletics prove to be among the best in 2011-12

2011

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2012-13 Cheerleaders

2012

Cheerleaders

Aeriel ArmstrongSoph., Blue Springs

Nikki BairdFresh., Houston

Ashley BullardFresh., Booneville

Kelly DavisFresh., Booneville

Emily FlemingSoph., Booneville

Heather HolmesFresh., Ackerman

Scarlett McCayFresh., Booneville

Kolbe McElwainFresh., Falkner

McKenzie SmithSoph., Vardaman

Maribeth StuartFresh., Philadelphia

Kamryn TuckerSoph., Amory

Devon VenturaSoph., Horn Lake

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Location........................................................................................................................................................Booneville, MSFounded.........................................................................................................................................................................1948President..........................................................................................................................Dr. Johnny L. Allen, Ed.D.(7226)

[email protected] Director......................................................................................................................................Ricky Ford (7302)

[email protected] Information Director.........................................................................................................M. Joseph Miller (7300)

[email protected] Trainer................................................................................................................................... Hope Barnes (7286) [email protected] Football Coach.........................................................................................................................Ricky Smither (7890)

[email protected]. Football Coaches...Travis Macon (7587), Deljuan Robinson (7351), Jonathan Webster (7575), Greg Davis (7580)

[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Men’s Basketball Coach.........................................................................................................David Robbins (7241)

[email protected]’s Assistant Basketball Coach......................................................................................................... Nick Coln (7505)

[email protected] Women’s Basketball Coach.................................................................................................Brian Alexander (7887)

[email protected]’s Assistant Basketball Coach..........................................................................................Maurice Stafford (7161)

[email protected] Baseball Coach..............................................................................................................................Kent Farris (7309)

[email protected] Baseball Coaches..............................................................................Richy Harrelson (7344), Jake Mills (7344)

[email protected]; [email protected] Softball Coach................................................................................................................................Jody Long (7305)

[email protected] Coach................................................................................................................................................Nick Coln (7241)

[email protected] Coach.......................................................................................................................................Ben Shappley (7242)

[email protected] Coach................................................................................................................Karri Davis (870-403-6980) [email protected] Phone..............................................................................................................................................(662) 720-7302Athletic Office Fax.......................................................................................................................................(662) 728-1165Football Stadium...........................................................................................................................................Tiger StadiumBasketball Arena..........................................................................................................................Bonner Arnold ColiseumBaseball Field...................................................................................Harold T. White Field/Booneville Westside City ParkSoftball Field............................................................................................................Field 1/Booneville Westside City ParkGolf Home Course........................................................................................................................Booneville Country ClubTennis Courts.................................................................................................................................Northeast Tennis CourtsAthletic E-mail...................................................................................................................................... [email protected] Affiliation......................................................................National Junior College Athletic Association/Region 23State Affiliation......................................................................Mississippi Association of Community and Junior CollegesColors..............................................................................................................................................................Black & GoldMascot...........................................................................................................................................................................Tiger

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OCTOBER18 atBlueMountain^$ 5p.m.18 Mid-South^% 6p.m.25 UNA^$ 5:30p.m.27 atWallaceSt.-Hanceville^% TBANOVEMBER5 EastCentral 5:30p.m.8 atWallaceSt.-Hanceville 5:30p.m.12 atJonesCo. 5p.m.15 atEastCentral 6p.m.19 GadsdenSt. 5:30p.m.26 Meridian 5:30p.m.29 atItawamba* 6p.m.DECEMBER 3 Northwest* 5:30p.m.11 JacksonSt.$ 5:30p.m. WallaceSt.-Hanceville% 7:30p.m.13 atGadsdenSt. 5:30p.m.JANUARY7 atMeridian 6p.m.14 JonesCo. 5:30p.m.17 EastMississippi* 5:30p.m.22 atCoahoma* 6p.m.24 Holmes* 5:30p.m.28 atMississippiDelta* 6p.m.31 Itawamba* 5:30p.m.FEBRUARY4 atNorthwest* 5p.m.7 WallaceSt.-Hanceville$ 5:30p.m. MissouriSt.-WestPlains% 7p.m.11 atEastMississippi* 5:30p.m.14 Coahoma* 5:30p.m.18 atHolmes* 6p.m.21 MississippiDelta* 5:30p.m.

*-North Division, ^-Scrimmage,%-Men Only, $-Women Only

2012-13 Schedule

Documents

2012-13 NEMCC Basketball Media Guide