While the current MGCCC baseball team continues to prepare for the 2013 season, head coach Gary Rath and his staff have received commitments from seven players for the 2014 campaign. “We are extremely proud of these early commitments to the MGCCC baseball program,” Rath says. “This class boasts some of the best hitters in...
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Get to know Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College. We have a lot to brag about! MGCCC provided educational opportunities to 13,877 students in the 2011-2012 school year. Students with an associate degree earn almost $4,000 more a year in wages than a high school graduate and $13,000 more than someone with less than a high school education. Our graduates will...
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Trudy Showles, who works in Accounts Payable at District Office, competed in two big barrel races in 2012, a little over a year after a nearly tragic horse-riding accident left her with three plates in her face and permanent nerve damage. “I started riding again in the middle of July (2012),” Showles says. “I...
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Almost 150 employees at MGCCC campuses and centers are participating in the Spring 2013 Biggest Loser On Campus competition, which will last for three months (February, March and April). Each month the competition will start over, providing employees three opportunities to become the biggest loser on the campus for that month, either individually or...
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Brian Carriere, social studies and political science instructor at the Jefferson Davis Campus, was elected to serve as vice president of the Mississippi Faculty Association for Community and Junior Colleges (MFACJC). The term for vice president will begin immediately due to an existing vacancy and will expire in April 2015. Carriere, currently a doctoral...
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Head coach Kenneth Long is hoping the Lady Bulldogs can make an eighth-straight trip to the post-season in 2013. “We have 16 freshmen on our current roster, including two Sun Herald Players of the Year – outfielder Morgan Fairley from George County and infielder Dani Craft from D’Iberville,” Long says. “Both will contribute this...
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In 2007, Tramaine Brock and Terrence Cody helped lead MGCCC to a perfect 12-0 record and an NJCAA national championship. A little more than five years later, Brock and Cody suited up on opposing sides of the field at Super Bowl 47 in New Orleans on February 3. Brock, a Long Beach native, is...
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MOBILE – When you mention the name “Gulf Coast” at the Senior Bowl, people know exactly what college you’re talking about. For the fourth straight year, a former MGCCC standout player suited up at the annual event. Bulldog Jonathan Jenkins impressed NFL scouts along the defensive line for the South Squad. A 6-3, 349-pound...
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UTICA -For Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, a streak continued and one was broken at Hinds on January 28. The Lady Bulldogs swamped Hinds 75-43 to extend their winning streak to eight, while the Bulldogs snapped a four-game losing skid with a 67-47 win over Hinds. The MGCCC men (12-5, 3-3) were led by...
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