Southeast Arkansas College has been officially accepted into the National Junior College Athletic Association. This fall, SEARK will launch its NJCAA athletic program, beginning with men s baseball, women s softball, and e-sports, which will include many virtually organized competitive sports. Men s and women s basketball and cheerleading are slated to begin in the fall of 2024.
Chad Kline has been hired as the first athletic director and men s basketball coach of Southeast Arkansas College, and Ka Lisa Stanfield will be the new dean of students, according to a news release.
If Jason Hudnell is hired as Southeast Arkansas College s first athletic director, it won t be his first time getting an athletic program off the ground.
A former staff member at both of southeast Arkansas universities and two former men s basketball coaches are the three finalists to become Southeast Arkansas College s dean of students and first-ever athletic director, college President Steven Bloomberg announced Thursday.