2018-2019 President's Report

Construction Begins on Warrior Hall

T he college held a groundbreaking cere mony in November to mark the begin ning of construction on its new Warrior Hall football operations center. The estimated $2.6 million, 12,300-square-foot facility will be located just outside the north end zone of Warrior Field at Bailey Stadium. The facility is expected to be ready for use when the spring term begins in January 2020.

Warrior Hall will contain locker rooms for play ers and for coaches, a team meeting room, posi tion conference rooms, coaches’ offices, an equip ment room, a players’ lounge, and a laundry room. It will also house a state-of-the-art training room to be used by student-athletes in all nine varsity sports at the college. The architect for Warrior Hall is Eley Guild Har dy Architects of Biloxi. The contractor is J&J Con tractors Inc. of Collinsville.

Kids’ College The college again hosted its annual Kids’ College program in June 2019. The event, which featured numerous courses and combined fun and learning for ages 5-12, included a Kids’ College T-shirt for each participant. Course offerings included Lil’ Warriors Tennis, Creative Chefs, Painting/Drawing, Spa Camp, Lil’ Warriors Soccer, Budding Bakers, Celebrity Acting, and Singing Superstars. Grace Hopper Scholarship Sophomore Breshia Donald of Forest was awarded a scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration in Octo ber 2019 in Orlando, Fla. The conference is the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. Scholarships for the celebration are awarded to students enrolled full-time in computer science, computer engineering, or a related technical discipline and are based on the student’s activity in their community and campus, as well as work toward the advancement of women in computing. PBL National Honors Members of the college’s Theta Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Lambda received eight awards overall, including first place awards and $1,000 in cash prizes in the Community Service and Parliamentary Procedure categories, at the organization’s 2019 National Leadership Conference in June in San Antonio, Texas. Sophomore Justin Wilcher of Philadelphia was recognized for Mississippi Who’s Who in Phi Beta Lambda, awarded to only one student per state each year. SkillsUSA National Honors Career & Technical Education students received several awards during the 55th SkillsUSA National Leadership and Skills Competition held in June in Louisville, Ky, including sixth place in Promotional Bulletin Board Team, sev enth place in Action Skills, and seventh place in Industrial Motor Controls. Student-Athlete Academic Honors Sixty-five student-athletes were honored by either the National Junior College Athletic Association or the Missis sippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges, or both organizations, for their academic performance during the 2018-19 academic year. In all, 39 ECCC student-athletes were recognized by the NJCAA and 65 were honored by the MACJC.

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