The team will play in the Ohio Community College Athletic Conference and National Junior College Athletic Association.
Kevin Lewis has been named coach of the team.
Lewis brings more than a quarter-century of softball and baseball training experience to the role, as well as coaching at the high school and collegiate levels.
âIâm excited to help start the softball program at Hocking College,â Lewis said. âThe chance to start a program from scratch is exciting. I love a challenge.â
After injuring his rotator cuff while playing for the Springfield Capitals of the independent Frontier League, Lewis went home.
âI did what all ex-ball players do: sit at home and sulk,â he said now with a laugh.
May 4, 2021
IVCC – Studstill Media Photo
OGLESBY- The Illinois Valley Community College board’s audit finance committee Monday learned athletics is considering adding men’s and women’s cross country as intercollegiate sports in fall 2022 and moving all teams up to Division II within the National Junior College Athletic Association. In a memo shared with the committee, Arrowhead Conference schools Carl Sandburg, Kishwaukee and Sauk Valley have cross country teams and Highland will add it this fall. The lone remaining college, Black Hawk, is considering adding it. Athletics also recommended moving all teams to Division II in 2022-23 to allow each to offer tuition waiver hours. The move would align IVCC with other Arrowhead schools, make it easier for athletes to compete in more than one sport and enhance coaches’ ability to recruit. If each sport’s roster is maximized – with each athlete required to enroll in a minimum 15 hours – the net gain in tuition and
War Memorial Stadium (Angelo Felix)
The National Junior College Athletic Association is bringing its football championship games to Little Rock s War Memorial Stadium for the next three years, state and city tourism officials announced Friday.
This contract amounts to four games because the association altered its schedule for this year’s season because of the pandemic. The first game at War Memorial is set for June 5. The others will be played this December then in December 2022 and 2023.
Gretchen Hall, president and CEO of the Little Rock Convention & Visitors Bureau, said it partnered with the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism to beat out 12 other sites for this contract.
Junior college football championsip game to be played in Little Rock
Junior college football championsip game to be played in Little Rock
GOOD GUESS: Prediction about today’s announcement proved correct.
State and local officials are to hold a news conference at 10 a.m. today at War Memorial Stadium about a deal to land a national collegiate championship event in Little Rock for three years.
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At last report, the association said its 2020 championship game, postponed because of the pandemic, would be played this spring at a site to be determined.
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The 2019 juco football championship, pitting Mississippi Gulf Coast against Lackawanna, was played in Pittsburg, Kan. Attendance was 1,237. The attendance was 3,077 at the 2018 game in Pittsburg.
Catawba Valley Community College volleyball’s sophomore outside hitter Aasia McNeill was named a first team All-American by the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA).
McNeill, who becomes the 41st All-American for the Red Hawks, said the news came as a surprise after her teammates posted the announcement in a group chat.
“It was definitely a shock,” she said. “It is definitely a huge honor, and it was a blessing that the NJCAA selected me.”
A Statesville native, McNeill tallied a team-high 255 kills and 3.31 kills per set this season for the Red Hawks. She also finished second for CVCC in hitting percentage (.293), digs (231) and digs per set (3.00).