2019-2020 President's Report

Athletics Success ECCC continues to field competitive teams in nine varsity sports competing in the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) and the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA). Some of the on-the-field highlights from the past eight years include: • Warrior baseball player Tim Anderson was drafted in the first round of the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft by the Chicago White Sox after being named the NJCAA Male Athlete of the Year. • The 2015 Lady Warrior softball team finished runner-up in the NJCAA Division II Softball National Championship, while also finishing second in both the MACJC State and NJCAA Region 23 tournaments. • Hannah Peoples of Carthage and Mackie Smith of Philadelphia captured the MACJC State and NJCAA Region 23 Tennis Tournament titles in No. 2 Doubles in 2015. • The 2015 Warrior Football team defeated Kilgore College 35-21 in the C.H.A.M.P.S. Heart of Texas Bowl in Copperas Cove, Texas, and finished with an 8-3 overall record, the best since 1999. • The 2016 Lady Warrior basketball team won the MACJC State Tournament. • The 2016 ECCC Baseball team won the MACJC State Tournament. • The 2016 football team won the college’s first-ever MACJC South Division title. • Bethany Wellerman of Lawrence won the 2018 MACJC/NJCAA Region 23 Tournament titles at No. 5 Singles. She was 13-0 on the season. • The men’s golf team finished in 12th place at the 2018 NJCAA Division II Golf Championships. It was the first-ever appearance by an ECCC golf team in the national championship tournament. • The men’s tennis team finished 19th overall at the 2019 NJCAA Division I Men’s Tennis Championship.

school equivalency began receiving the following scholarship awards based on ACT score: ACT Composite Score 20 23—Dean’s Award, one-half tuition per semester; 24-28—President’s Award, full tuition per semester; or 29-36—Board of Trustees Award, full scholarship of tuition, room, and board per semester.

the college’s Theta Chi Chapter of Phi Beta Lambda. Warrior POST (Providing Others Support Together) located in the

Tucker Applied Technology Center provides free non-perishable food items and other life necessities to currently enrolled students with demonstrated need.

Warrior POST Food Pantry A ribbon cutting was held in February 2019 for a campus food pantry sponsored by

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