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Ole Miss Athletics Director Ross Bjork is excited about this year's Double Decker Arts Festival.Athletics is sponsoring the main music stage, something Bjork felt was a duty for a community that has served Ole Miss so well in the past.

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Great memories OM’s Bjork loves giving back through Double Decker

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

For Ross Bjork, the annual Double Decker Arts Festival is like an anniversary.

It’s a reminder of when he was hired at Ole Miss back in 2012 and the first time he saw 60,000 fans pile into Oxford.

That festival, the 17th overall, was one of

the first times Bjork saw the Ole Miss family come together in mass. Sure he had already attended the Ole Miss spring football game, and a baseball series. But none of those events can compare to the amount of people the annual Double Decker Arts Festival brings in.

“We ended up having our last stop of the Rebel Road Trip on that Saturday of Double

Decker and it was packed. The whole Square was packed and Coach Freeze and I were there, Dan Jones was there,” Bjork recalled. “We did a hug, got everybody to hug, and everyone was all hot and sweaty.

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Noah Addy and Lee McLarty are having a ball out on the tennis courts playing for Lafayette and coach Debbie Swindoll.

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Move to OPD has turned out just right

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

ON THE BEAT

There are 26 miles between the city of Oxford and Pontotoc. For Ben Hamilton, the move from the Pontotoc Sheriff’s Department to the Oxford Police Department felt like an even bigger jump. Hamilton has been serving the community in law enforcement since 2011. He graduated from PHS in 2006 where he played football for the Warriors.

After two years serving as a deputy, Hamilton made his way to Oxford in 2013.

He saw an opportunity to go to a bigger department, so he could grow in his career.

“There are a lot of opportunities that this department, and this city, offers that was really intriguing to me,” Hamilton said. “There are all kinds of people here.

It’s never the same thing. It is exciting. Pontotoc is a slow paced place, not a whole lot going on there while there is always something going on in Oxford.”

Ben Hamilton It shouldn’t be a surprise that officers do want to see some action rather than just sitting in a car for eight hours straight.

“It’s always fun to get into different things and it’s always busy here,” Hamilton said adding he has always wanted to be a police officer. “Being a police officer gives me the opportunity to help somebody everyday. I love helping people, anyway I can. The different things you face, you never do the same things twice.”

There hasn’t been a point in Hamilton’s four-year career that he has done something so remarkable it defined him moving forward.

“There are small things everyday and you realize

what happened,” said Hamilton, who uses the drive back to see his wife and family in Pontotoc to reflect. “On my drive home, I do have things go through my mind. You see things come up, things you dealt with maybe a year ago. It will just pop up in your head and you think about it. You think about what maybe could have done better. It gives you time to kind of calm down after a busy night or a busy day.

We can be stacked on calls all day and all night and be gone from 6 to 6 and that drive gives me a good time to calm down and think about stuff. By the time I’m home, I’m good.”

Hamilton just celebrated his fourth wedding an-

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Ben Hamilton of the Oxford Police Department has been in law enforcement since 2011, and locally since 2013. niversary to wife Cassie, who is an occupational therapist and works in the North and South Pontotoc school districts. He has a 16-month old little girl named Jules. Having a child changed his entire life in relation to being an officer.

“I think about them to all

during the day and how I need to get home to them.

It’s more than just you now, that’s how I’m thinking,” Hamilton said adding that he and his wife met while he was already an officer. “I think since I was already an officer when we got married, instead of me getting

into it after, she has gotten used to it over these past five years. She doesn’t like the night shift, but she’s good with me being an officer.”

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OBITUARIES ROBERT WILLIAM MUSTIN Ole Miss lost another athletics legend here Monday with the passing of Robert William “Billy” Mustin, 87, who starred as a player, served as an assistant football coach and then became Director of the Loyalty Foundation. A graveside service will be held today at 2 at Oxford Memorial Cemetery with Rev. Robert Allen officiating.

Mustin, a 1950 graduate of Ole Miss and a star halfback for the Rebels from 1946 to 1949, worked for 12 years with the Loyalty Foundation. Mustin was inducted into the Ole Miss Sports Hall of Fame in 1987.

Memorial contributions in Mr. Mustin’s memory may be made to The Ole Miss Athletics Foundation, P.O. Box 1519, Oxford, MS 38655.

RUTH TATUM WALKER Ruth Tatum Walker, 89, passed away Monday, April 11, 2016 at her home in Oxford. A funeral service will be held Friday at 2 p.m. in the Chapel of Waller Funeral Home with Rev. Roger Howell officiating. Burial will follow in Browning Cemetery. Visitation will be held tonight, April 14 from 5 until 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorial contributions in Ms. Walker’s memory may be made to the Browning Cemetery Fund, c/o Libbie Callicoat, 324 County Road 321, Oxford, MS 38655.

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BREIFING LCSD holding Title School meeting The Lafayette County School District will hold its annual Title Schools meeting on Tuesday. All parents and community members are invited to attend one of the information sessions.

Lafayette Middle School will meet in the LMS library 11 a.m., and will join LES and LUES at 5:30 p.m. in the LUES library.

LMS parents are invited to join the meeting with both school and district administrators for one of these meetings to discuss federal funds. Lafayette Upper Elementary School and Lafayette Elementary School will hold a joint meeting on Tuesday in the LUES Library.

Meeting times are at noon and/or 5:30 p.m.

Parents and community members are asked to join the schools at one of the available meeting times.

Lunch & Learn seminar The Oxford-Lafayette Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a Lunch & Learn seminar that is sponsored by DexMedia Tuesday.

The event will be held in the chamber board room and begin at 11 that morning and run until 1 p.m. The cost is free and lunch will be provided. In order to attend, RSVP to Cory Swain at Cory.Swain@dexmedia.com. The focus of the seminar is to hear from local experts on how to succeed in local business.

Strategies to improve business, tips and techniques from community leaders are also geared towards growing a better business.

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Swain's parenting and professional skills recognized by school district The Lafayette County School District has named Pam Swain as Parent of the Year. Swain is the Senior Vice President of the Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce and serves as the president of the Lafayette Upper Elementary parentteacher organization. Under her direction, the PTO has managed to get school district personalized license plates that are available for purchase through the DMV. The plates cost $31, and $24 of that money goes directly to the school district. Swain and the rest of the PTO plan on using some of those funds to help provide a playground for the older elementary school students.

CHANING GREEN: What all do you do? You seem to have a lot going on.

PAM SWAIN: I really do. I try to balance it all. As a working professional, a mom, as someone who is invested in our school system, I try real hard to balance all of that in my everyday life. Here at the chamber, I’m Senior Vice President, been here since 2002, so that’s 14 years in this position. I absolutely love what I do. With the job here, one of the things that I get exposed to is people that are interested in moving to our community. We get a lot of requests from people who are looking for jobs here or have been offered a job here and they want to know “Why should I move here?” So we have to answer a lot of questions about education. Thankfully, that is a very easy question for us to answer because Oxford is so unique in that we have two incredible school systems.

GREEN: Why get behind the school district?

SWAIN: I have three boys are little Commodores at Lafayette.

I have one that’s in the fourth grade, one that’s in the first grade, and a 3-year-old that will be enrolled in the pre-k program next year. So as my 3year-old has gotten a little bit older, I’ve found myself really

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Pam Swain has been chosen as Lafayette County School District’s Parent of the Year. wanting to be able to get more involved in the school district. I really wanted to see what more I can do to give back to the schools. The thing about our schools is that, as wonderful as they are, it takes a community to get behind a school and a school district to make great things happen. As a parent, it’s my responsibility, I feel like, to help rally the community behind our school districts and make as much a I can for our kids as possible.

ribbon cuttings. Just a whole host of things. I’m constantly having to change the hat that’s on my head because I’m doing so many different things at one time. But, really, I don’t know any other way. I love it being that way. It’s constantly changing and I really have to learn how to devote my time to all these different avenues and giving them 100 percent, without falling short on any of them. I know that I’m the kind of person that, if I can’t give it 100 percent, it’s not something I wanna do. I don’t want to fall short of something because I have fallen short of time or overcommitted myself. I try to really evaluate what I get involved in so that I can always give 100 percent of myself to whatever I’m tied to.

SWAIN: The first thing I became involved in, I became the president of the PTO for Lafayette Upper Elementary School. That was in August. I immediately got involved in fundraising for the schools and seeing what I could get our parents behind. Make sure that we get our teachers everything GREEN: How do know that they need so they can make you’re not doing too much? sure our kids succeed.

SWAIN: My husband is a very good compass for me. He’ll tell GREEN: Do you always try to me when I’ve over extended myself. He brings it into perstay this busy?

SWAIN: I’ve always been a spective a lot. My number one very busy person. Through my priority is my kids. As long as I work here at the chamber, I run have the time and energy to pretty much all of our chamber commit to them and everything programs. We do a junior lead- that they do, everything else ership program, we do the falls into place for me. I really Leadership Lafayette program, try to evaluate everything, and the Double Decker spring run there is a number of things that that we do, we have a red carpet I do have to say no to because I gala coming up in May, our an- don’t want to overextend mynual meeting coming up, we self. I feel like as my career has have monthly luncheons and evolved, it comes in cycles. Ten

years ago, I was really involved in the Public Relations Association of Mississippi and Southern Public Relations Federation and was on those boards of directors. I think that was the time in my life for those involvements and now I’ve morphed into a time in my life where it’s really important to me to be involved in the schools and use my PR talents and skills through my professional career to focus on my kids, my school district, the things that are really important in making Oxford what it is. To me, it all ties together to what I do at work because my job everyday is to make sure that we have the very best quality of life in Oxford and Lafayette County that we can possibly have. That our residents that live here and those that are interested in moving here see that we have a quality of life that stands above and beyond anything that we expect. So, if there’s something that I can do to ensure that that quality of life is the best that it can be and all quality of life, to me, starts with education. Our school systems are one of the number one reasons people come to Oxford. If we didn’t have quality education, people wouldn’t move to Oxford. We wouldn’t be the community we are. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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Annual Hazardous Waste Collection Day to be held at the Conference Center

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

This Saturday at the Oxford Conference Center from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. is the annual Hazardous Waste Collection Day. Amberlynn Liles is the Superintendent of Environmental Services for the city of Oxford. She said that identifying what does and doesn’t qualify has hazardous materials is easier than most people make it out to be.

Think bigger, bulkier items like broken dishwashers, busted microwaves, batteries, an old television. Smaller things like leftover paint, used motor oil, chemicals.

Liles has a rule for it.

“Usually, if you’re unsure if it should go in the garbage, it’s hazardous waste,” she said. “Anything that may seep out of the garbage truck and not be good to have in the water stream. Paint, chemicals, oil – all those things that you kind of store up because you don’t know what to do with them.”

The project is a joint collaboration involving the city of Oxford, Lafayette County and Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority, with funding from a grant through the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. Vendors are hired to be at the event in order to take the hazardous wastes off and recycle, repurpose or properly dispose of them.

Electronics are stripped of valuable metals or refurbished. Busted televi-

sions are stripped of copper or reusable materials. Many of these vendors take these unwanted materials and attempt to turn a profit off of them, while others are simply taking a fee to haul off the materials and make sure they a properly disposed of in the proper places.

Vendors will be set up outside the Conference center.

People wishing to drop off wastes can pull to a designated stop and fill out a small form where they identify what they have brought with them. The contents of their car, truck or trailer is unloaded and taken away and they are free to leave. All of this is done without the person dropping off ever

having to leave his or her vehicle.

There is no limit to how much a person can bring to the drop off. If it is on the list of approved items or falls into one of the identified categories, they vendors will take as much as you can bring. At last year’s event, vendors hauled off well over 20,000 pounds of wastes that would have been harmful if left in a landfill.

This isn’t open exclusively to Lafayette County residents. Anyone from anywhere is welcome to bring hazardous waste for disposal. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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Blondes vs. Brunettes Saturday at Lafayette High

BY KATHRYN WINTER STAFF WRITER

The inaugural Blondes vs. Brunettes flag football game locally will kickoff Saturday at 4 p.m., at Lafayette High School.

The event is a fundraiser for the Alzheimer’s Association. In Mississippi, over 51,000 are living with Alzheimer’s disease.

“We are so excited about bringing this amazing fundraising event for the Alzheimer’s Association to Oxford,” said Mary Nelda Lott, committee chair for the Blondes vs. Brunettes Oxford event. “I don’t know a single person that hasn’t been affected by Alzheimer’s disease in some way. This is my own personal way of honoring my grandparents that I lost to Alzheimer’s, while also helping to increase awareness and support for those that continue to be affected by Alzheimer’s disease.”

The two teams, based on the age-old rivalry between blondes and

brunettes, aim to increase awareness of Alzheimer’s disease among a new generation. Funds raised will benefit the care, support and research efforts of the Alzheimer’s Association.

The first Blondes vs.

Brunettes game was held in Washington D.C. by volunteers in 2005.

Sarah Allen Abbott is the original founder of the event, according to the Alzheimer’s Association website. Abbott was living in D.C. at the time, and thought there were too many black tie charity events. She wanted to do something different and

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Help the Blondes vs. Brunettes battle Alzheimer’s this Saturday at Lafayette’s William L. Buford Stadium. The football game is set to raise funds, and awareness, for the disease that affects too many locally, across the state and nation. fun, and also wanted to get younger people interested in Alzheimer’s awareness.

By 2012, Blondes vs. Brunettes was played in different U.S. cities, each having a different approach to the game.

More than five million

people are living with Alzheimer’s in the United States and the number is projected to be 13.5 million by 2050.

Since its inception in 2011 in Jackson, the flag football game has raised more than $170,000 for

Alzheimer’s Association Mississippi. Beth Hamilton organized the first game in the spring of 2011 in Jackson. She wanted to do something to raise money and awareness for Alzheimer’s disease after her grandfather passed

away from an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Over 70 girls participated in the first game.

This will be the first year this event has been organized in Oxford.

Lott attended the game in Jackson last May, and has been working with the association to plan the first Oxford event over the past year. The goal is to raise $25,000. Players and coaches organize fun events and practices during the spring and are encouraged to fundraise $250 to participate in the game. Locals can still sign up to participate as a coach, player or volunteer.

Anyone wanting to get involved can visit the Facebook page, www.facebook.com/bvbo xford, sign up at www.alzms.org, or call Cambi Burnham for more information.

Tickets for the Oxford Blondes vs. Brunettes game can be purchased for $10. The ticket fee will also get participants into the after party.

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Sing him back home Jim Dees Tales of the Town

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his week’s passing of country music star Merle Haggard brought back memories of a time when country music was unhip; a chirping, syrupy sound on cheesy Saturday afternoon TV shows and a few AM radio stations. I recall rhinestones and Dolly, both suffering from black and white television.

Back in the 1960s, country music was at odds with that era’s youth culture of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Haggard was at the forefront of this animosity – intentionally or not. His song, “Okie from Muskogee” and its follow up, “The Fightin’ Side of Me,” were replete with conservative broadsides, “If you don’t love it, leave it” and, “Let this song be a warning… etc.”

In his later years, like a segregationist renouncing his younger racism, Haggard took it all back, telling an interviewer, “When you get older you find that things you were absolutely, totally sure about, you didn’t know nothing about.”

He had spent his 21st birthday in prison – in solidarity confinement, no less – and was galled at affluent college kids trying to look poor and protesting their government.

As for “Okie from Muskogee’s” famous opening line, “We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee…”

Haggard’s biographers claim the singer became a pot user in his forties. One of his last singles was a duet with Willie Nelson entitled, “It’s All Going to Pot,” in which the two geezer stoners sing the virtues of their favorite herb. In 2008, Haggard even wrote a pro-Hillary Clinton song, “Hillary”: “This country needs to be honest. Our changes need to be large. What we need is a big switch of gender. Let’s put a woman in charge.”

When asked if that was an endorsement, Merle told the New York Post, “I don’t know. It depends on if she holds her mud between now and the time to vote.”

Like any coming together, the chasm between youthful freak culture and the conservative country music world, healed slowly over the years through hard-earned respect. One thinks of Bob Dylan appearing on The Johnny Cash Show in 1969. The Byrds performed at the Grand Ole Opry in 1968 and irked Opry officials when they played Gram Parson’s original,

white house set among all that greenery in Oxford, Mississippi.”

“Oh, you mean William Faulkner’s house.”

“Yeah, Faulkner.” Haggard replied. “Reckon he’d sell it?”

The 1970s saw various factions come together – young, old, liberal, conservative – to bring country music out of the truck stops and into the head shops. In Oxford, the first house band at the Gin, a lost and lamented restaurant/bar, was Cold Beer, a swinging country band led by Jimmy Phillips who has the distinction of having written, “Fried Chicken,” probably the best all-time song on that succulent subject. Country music spread like spilled beer to other bars in town. At the Warehouse, (also lost and lamented), the late L.W. Thomas led the Sheetrockers in fast-paced bluegrass. West of town, Opal’s, a fullfledged honky-tonk, served beer and fist-fights.

Much of today’s country music sounds like pop music; more bang than twang. Merle Haggard stayed true to his Okie soul for his entire career. He never went disco. Plus, he wanted to buy a house in Oxford. I wish he had, though not Rowan Oak. We have to keep our genius ghosts separate.

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“Merle Haggard wanted to buy a house in Oxford. I wish he had.”

“Hickory Wind,” instead of a planned cover of Merle Haggard’s, “Life in Prison.” Nixon-supporter Roy Acuff recorded with California long-hairs, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, in 1971 in what became the ground-breaking, Will the Circle Be Unbroken album.

Though the music (3-discs) was harmonious, the Dirt Band’s hair was such an issue at the time, the Nashville Tennessean wrote: “The members of the Dirt Band seemed as uneasy about uniting with Acuff’s conservative traditional mores as he was about joining their hairy liberality.”

Then along came Willie Nelson and “hairy liberality” was everywhere.

Merle Haggard played Tunica numerous times over the years but, as far as I can recall (not far), he has only played Oxford once.

He played the Ford Center with Marty Stuart in 2003 and the next day, the two held a press conference at Rowan Oak where they played a short acoustic set.

Apparently Rowan Oak caught Haggard’s fancy. Stuart would later say that months after their Oxford visit, he received a call from Haggard who asked about that “pretty

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BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Green Week began in 2009 at the University of Mississippi as a way to engage the Lafayette-Oxford-University community in conversation about sustainability and educating community members about what their peers are doing to make the area more environmentally friendly.

There are a variety of different events that happen during this week. Green Week kicks off Saturday with the Mississippi River Dance being held at Mud Island River Park by the Ole Miss Theatre Department. On the following Tuesday, there is a film screening being held at the offices of Sustainable Oxford. There are lectures, a luncheon, tree trail walks and several other events.

One of the most popular events of years past has been the Sustainability Fair being held at the Union Plaza on the Ole Miss Cam-

pus from 10 a.m. to 2 on Wednesday. The Sustainability Fair has a variety of vendors that show up to share what they do with the community. There have people there that sell artisan soaps, homegrown vegetables and herbs, locally sourced honey and jams, and even homemade dog treats.

Not all of the tents set up on the plaza during the Sustainability Fair are just vendors. Many of the people participating in the fair are representatives of local and regional organizations that have a vested interest in sustainability. Power companies and gardening groups are there to provide students with information that is important when considering questions about how we as people live in a community and where our resources come from. There are also interactive activates where students can figure out how much electricity they are using when lighting their

house and calculate their carbon footprint.

Campus Recreation at the university will also be participating in Green Week with the Earth Day Nature and Yoga Hike taking place on Friday, April 22. A guide will be leading a group of hikers through the Whirlpool Trails where the guide will provide information on local flora and fauna that populate the area. A student instructor will then lead a yoga session that will be suitable for all levels of yoga practitioners, followed by readings of nature poetry before wrapping up the hike. There will be two different times for the event with a sunrise hike set for 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. and a sunset hike from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

More information about Green Week along with a full schedule of events can be found at greenweek.olemiss.edu. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

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Align Mind & Body offers fitness at relaxed pace

BY JOHN DAVIS OXFORD CITIZEN

A workout that leaves a member refreshed, nurtured and full of energy of is the goal of Align Body & Mind. Establishing a sense of community through fitness and wellness, instead of a gym that doesn’t have much interaction at all, is another difference that the four women of the business are looking to provide.

Ally Bell, Roane Grantham, Keri Meagher and Elizabeth Paine helped create the newly opened Align Body & Mind located at 125 Heritage Drive. The doors opened a month ago and so far the response has been positive, especially for those looking for variety.

“This is a different concept. We had a desire to open up a studio. We all worked together in the past and we all wanted to work together,” Bell said. “We have a passion, not only for

fitness, but also loving on other moms, other women just like us.”

Classes in Yoga, Combat Cardio, Pilates, Define and Turn’t Up are all offered to members. They all last an hour. Membership dues are $80 per month, but members can come to as many classes as they want. There is a special for teachers which is $60, and that’s good for anyone, including those that instruct at the University of Mississippi. Classes can hold up to 20 people and the main area resembles a dance studio.

The concept and collaboration came together just a few months ago, over coffee,

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The women who make up Align Body & Mind include, from left, Roane Grantham, Elizabeth Paine, Keri Meagher and Alley Bell. at the end of January.

“We started the idea rolling acting like it was going to be a joke in mid January,” Bell said. “We hadn’t seen each other in probably a year, the four of us together, and we said let’s do this. We missed each other and we said there isn’t another place, in town, that women can come that is af-

fordable and get everything like Pilates and cardio and being called by name, feeling loved and being a sense of community and being with one another.”

“Things got serious and started falling into place,” Grantham added. “We did a soft opening just before spring break just to see what people would like. We of-

fered $5 classes, just a few classes that week, and then our full opening was the Monday after spring break.

The people that come in love it. We are a little hidden gem.”

A workshop to showcase the oils, made by doTerra, that the ladies use at the end of classes and nutrition are the workshops that the

women are going to be offering.

“They don’t realize what goes on behind the doors, the relaxing part and how you feel and the workout that you get,” Bell said. “You leave feeling so relaxed.”

Fitness is something Bell has been around her entire life. She said her mother used to put her down in her carrier when she taught classes. Bell has been teaching since she legally could instruct at age 16. She came to Ole Miss from Arkansas, and she has been involved in the industry locally ever since.

The workouts are low impact, which is another big plus for women as they age.

Low lights sooth during the training period. Bell said the goal is to make exercise and fitness easy, and less of a chore or complicated.

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outs and not say it’s a drag or that they have to go get on the treadmill,” Bell said.

There are hand weights to use in the classes but they are more for toning than building up a big muscle base.

“Women don’t want to lift a lot of heavy weight,” said Grantham, who started her career in fitness teaching classes at a country club in Jackson. “We’re more of a toning, long and lean look.

I’ve always been into fitness and gone to a trainer and gone to classes four days a week. I’ve been consistently learning from others for 15 years. It’s a part my lifestyle.

It’s something that makes me feel good. My sense of exercise is giving a variety.

When you come in here, you never know what to expect.

It’s going to be different every time.”

Feedback from the members is welcomed because the group wants to teach things that the members want.

“We try to structure all of our classes from the feed-

back we got that first week and then tweak things to always keep them on their toes,” Bell said. “Then at the same time, give them stuff that they really, really enjoy and the results they are looking for. We want women that have kids to increase their energy level so they can be better wives, better moms, better friends. That’s what you can get by coming in here.”

“This is not a very intimidating environment. Some women worry if they’re doing it right and this is for all shapes, all sizes,” Grantham said. “When you come through this door, we love on you and we want you to be a better self. We want you to grow, inside and out.”

Meagher has instructed for the past eight years all over town, including a Hip Hop class at The Library Sports Bar & Grill. The class that Meagher teaches is Club and Cardio, which has a tendency to scare some people off.

“Their first reaction is they can’t dance and everyone can dance. It’s a matter of teaching with an eight count and learning with an eight

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called a “roamer” which allows him to help everywhere in the city.

“We do it on experience and the amount of years that you have. I like roaming and it gives me an opportunity to back up the other officers that are in the beats,” Hamilton said.

“It gives an extra set of hands, extra set of eyes to back them up.”

Night shifts offer a different set of calls compared to the day shift. The officers at OPD trade out every two months. The Square is busy at nights, and Hamilton hasn’t had an issue with any of the Ole Miss students.

When he goes back to Pontotoc, Hamilton gets a lot of questions about working in Oxford.

“The see on the news that this and this happened in Oxford today.

They always ask me if I like it and I tell them that I love it,” he said. “I know this is where I’m supposed to be. It’s fun to talk to them about the things we

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The lobby area at Align Body & Mind feels more like a spa than a gym. count and incorporating is very personal and we are strength into it,” said attracting people with an Meagher, who has taken tap, overall idea of fitness,” jazz and ballet since she was Meagher said. “It’s working age 3. “I told my parents that really well so far. I think our they didn’t realize how clients are super receptive much all those dance les- and really enjoy it. We’re putsons paid off. They didn’t re- ting a lot of passion and hard ally start to pay off until I was work into it. People need to after 35 which is funny. It’s realize that fitness should be what I’ve made a career out a way of life everyday. It’s not of doing what I loved when I to just get ready to wear was little and being able to shorts or get ready for football season. You need a do that now.”

Meagher said all of the healthy body to have a women bring a different gift healthy mind. I always say to fitness, and all are pas- that fitness is cheaper than therapy.” sionate about the clients.

“We just wanted to have a place where we could offer a john.davis@journalinc.com variety of classes. I think this Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

deal with. Ballgame weekends. That’s pretty much what they ask about.”

One of the top experiences Hamilton likes is to go out and interact with the children, or the community as a whole.

“That’s who we are here for. I love talking to the classrooms of students and the kids are just so amazed by police officers,” Hamilton said. “It’s fun to talk with them and interact with them.”

The Law Fit team is something Hamilton takes part in with the OPD. The competition is June 9-11 down in Pearl and he has been training for that. He is also on the SWAT team and is a member of the honor guard.

“That’s what drew me to Oxford. We have all of that and the mounted patrol. We have so much stuff that you can do here,” Hamilton said. “It’s fun to build good relationships with the other guys, getting on stuff like that. It builds trust and gets you close with them.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Hamilton named Scott Center Teacher of the Year

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Bjork FROM PAGE 1

and every event I went to, it was crowded. There was a lot passion from the people there and every one of those I went to continued to make this a great decision for me and my family.”

People love Oxford because of events like the Double Decker Arts Festival, Bjork said. It’s an event that only happens in Oxford is another way Bjork put it.

“Double Decker is further validation of why this is such a great place to live,” he said.

“Each year reminds of the energy of those first couple of weeks with me on the job.

Four years go by fast, but it shows you how much energy that was here and continues to be here. Hopefully that will continue, that good feeling and energy. There is no question that (Double

CHANING GREEN

Jackie Hamilton in her classroom at the Scott Center where she was named Teacher of the Year. times.

“I was struggling quite a bit and had missed a lot of school in third grade,” Hamilton said. “I had a gifted ed teacher that really took me under her wing. She made me very excited about school. I was just excited. I read all the

Decker) brings back great memories.”

Ole Miss Athletics is sponsoring the main event stage where all the bands will be playing for the 21st annual Double Decker Arts Festival.

For Bjork, it was an easy decision to sign up and give back in a meaningful way as he put it.

“There is no question that it has sort of a branding from an advertising/marketing perspective, but I think the bigger reason to do it is because we’ve asked people to do a lot for us over the last four years,” Bjork said.

“We’ve asked them to give more money, buy more tickets and merchandise, support our Forward Together campaign and we have had a tremendous increase in our budget. We’ve gone from $56 million to now $96 million and we will be over $100 million next year. With that comes a bigger responsibil-

time. I was excited to go to school and go to her class.

From then on, I wanted to make that impact in other children’s lives, especially in those who were facing struggles that other people might not understand.”

Shortly after this, Hamilton got a new stepsister

Oxford

Jackie Hamilton has been selected as Teacher of the Year for the Scott Center.

Hamilton began her teaching career at Oxford University School. She moved around to different classes in different grades, depending on where her expertise in special education could be applied the most. She was always interested in teaching in the Oxford School District, but when she graduated with her master’s from the University of Mississippi in 2012, there were no positions available. Hamilton said that she loved her time at OUS, but wanted to be in a classroom where she would be able to dedicate all of her time to helping children with special needs. After three years on the job at OUS, a job opened at the Scott Center, and she made the switch.

Hamilton traces her interest in teaching back to her third grade teacher, Amy Driskill. During this time in her life, Hamilton said she had a lot going on and was forced to miss quite a bit of school. Her gifted education teacher, Driskill, helped her get through some tough

ity to be a bigger part of the community as much as we can and that’s giving back. If giving back to an arts festival will help, we want to support that.

“If we can help the school districts or if it helps the More than a Meal program or whatever it might be, I think we have a greater obligation. We ask so much of the community and we need to be able to give back.

I don’t look at it as a dollar

who had cerebral palsy.

She was home schooled.

Hamilton said there was a disconnect with the way she saw her sister, and the way the rest of the world saw people like her sister.

“At our school, there was a complete segregation of special education,” Hamil-

Double Decker Days

and sense commitment as I do an obligation to help the community at large get better.”

Double Decker is another reason to visit Oxford from a destination standpoint, Bjork felt. While visitors may have ties to Ole Miss, Bjork said when people start investing in second homes and supporting the university in that special way, it makes everything that much more unique.

ton said. “The only time you ever saw special educations students was in the lunchroom. They were at their own table. They were excluded. The older I got and the more I was able to expand my understanding of those students, the more I wanted to teach

“I think people treat Double Decker just like they do a football weekend. Hotels are sold out, people are renting out their condos or they’re coming themselves to live in their second home,” Bjork said. “I think from that perspective, I don’t think there is anything else like it in a college town in the United States where people have invested in the community and their university. It’s a great thing in the spring in that it feels like another football weekend. I think it just helps everybody and makes us so unique to a college town atmosphere like we have here.”

Ever since the announcement in late February that Ole Miss would be a sponsor, Bjork has been getting positive feedback.

“I was at a function Saturday night and people were talking about Double Decker and saying they

special ed.“ So that is what she did.

She entered the University of Mississippi, majoring in elementary education and got all of her certifications and specializations in special education. She is also certified to teach English and math up to grade 12 and has her endorsement to teach gifted education.

She has worked at summer schools, math camps and she does math tutoring for older students. Throughout her career, she has worked with both neurotypical students and those with special needs.

Hamilton said that she loves them both.

“I love that everyday is different, even though we do try to stick to a routine with these students,” she said. “Even with the routine, there’s always something different. There’s always a new breakthrough. It’s a challenge to reach them, but it’s so rewarding when see those breakthroughs. They teach me things about myself all the time. The strength these students have, and all kids have, it makes you want to be better. They make me want to continue to learn and grow.” chaning.green@journalinc.co Twitter: chaningthegreen

heard we sponsored the stage and thanks for giving back,” Bjork said. “They didn’t ask me for tickets or VIP passes. But they said thanks and thanks for being a part of the community. I think it’s resonating and I think people are appreciative that we are trying to give back.”

This past weekend, Bjork saw St. Paul and the Broken Bones, a band that played at the 20th Double Decker.

“I remember when I saw them I said ‘Who are these guys?’ and then I get to see them again and they’re still good,” Bjork said. “Hopefully there is somebody like that who really sticks out. I enjoy music. I don’t follow is specifically as much as I would like to because of the time, but I do enjoy all of it. I do appreciate all of the talent.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Oxford High prepares for final show of year

BY CONNOR HENNESSEY SPECIAL TO THE OXFORD CITIZEN

PHOTO BY CHELSEA KLETTE

Michael Franti & Spearhead to close out Double Decker

BY CHANING GREEN NEWS WRITER

Humanitarian rocker and funk master Michael Franti and his band Spearhead will be closing out the Double Decker Arts Festival on the Ole Miss Athletics stage at 8:30 p.m. April 23.

Michael Franti and Spearhead have been touring as a collective for over two decades now, beginning in 1994. Franti formed the band after his early 90s rap group The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy dissolved. His new venture moved away from straight hip hop and focuses on more of a free from style of music that seems to combine folk, classic reggae, rock and hip hop, often combined in equal parts to

produce a unique sound that is all their own.

Franti’s music preaches about the importance of love and social justice. He grew up with four other siblings who all played music and his mother was a church organist. He traces his style back to the musical icons that influenced him as a kid. His family shared a record collection, so everyone in the family got to add a little bit of their own individual taste to the mix.

Franti was listening to Carole King, Run DMC, the Bee Gees, Stevie Wonder and others. He thought their music had the power to change the world. He said that he’s held on to that idea his entire life and carries it with him in everything he does.

“It is that belief that music is a way for us to combat hatred and violence and bring people closer together in support of each other and support of the planet,” Franti said. “That’s why I make music. I see people come to our shows every night and walk out feeling energized and ready to go back into the world and do whatever is next in their life.

Even if it is just to get up in the morning and take their kids to school and work on something to make their little corner of the world a better place.”

He had a band in high school and, in college, he was exposed to several different styles of music. Franti played basketball at the university of San Francisco. The school’s radio station broad-

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casted right below his dorm room. On his way back from practice, he would always make a point to stop by the radio station in time to listen and watch as they broadcasted a themed show.

There were jazz shows, reggae, soul, electronic and a variety of others. He said they were putting out everything you could think of, including Chinese news program.

Earlier this month Franti and the Spearheads announced the release of their ninth studio album. The record is titled “Soulrocker” and Franti said that it’s his favorite that they’ve put out so far.

“What a Soulrocker is to me is someone who lives from their heart and has a compassion for all. It’s someone who posses a tenacious enthusiasm for music and for life and for the planet. Right now is a time when there’s so much chaos. So this record is, like us, I guess, committed to making music that helps us through this craziness.”

Double Decker will be the band’s first time playing in Mississippi, and Franti said they are all looking forward to it. chaning.green@journalinc.com Twitter: chaningthegreen

The lights are on and the costumes are ready at Kayla Mize Auditorium for Oxford High School’s final production of this school year, “Inherit The Wind.”

The production is a dramatized version the 1925 Scopes Trial where the main character, Bert Cates, is on trial for teaching evolution in his classroom during the McCarthy era.

Director and drama teacher John Davenport will be staging his 90th production at the school and thinks he couldn’t have picked a better one timing wise.

“There couldn’t be a more appropriate time to do this production in light of what’s going on politically in our state,” said Davenport.

Of course, he’s talking about the controversial language of House Bill 1523 that was signed into law by Governor Phil Bryant last week.

The production by roughly the 80 OHS students involved will be a rendition of a live radio broadcast and is not your traditional school play.

Lead character, senior Clark Bartholomew, plays defense attorney Henry Drummond, says it will be a fun change of pace from what’s normally done by their department.

“It’s a very different show than anything we’ve done before,” said Bartholomew.

When asked about the show’s semi-unorthodox topic, Bartholomew was eager to talk about the controversy and encourages discussion on topics like this one.

“You aren’t supposed to take everything that’s given to you,” he said.

“You’re supposed to step back challenge what is in front of you. It’s okay to step back and find your own answer and that’s what it’s all about.”

Davenport stressed that this wasn’t a piece about Evolution vs. Creationism; instead it’s a look back at history in a different way.

“It’s not history,” Davenport added. “It’s a dramatization of a certain time in our history.”

The students have been working hard through class periods during the school day, and during after-school rehearsals.

From stage production to the acting itself, it’s all student-driven and Davenport has been blessed by a large amount wanting to take part.

“We’re open to the whole student body and we have all walks of life,” he said. “We have a broad amount of students compared to your typical theatre group.”

The community is encouraged to come out and support the young actors and actresses, and there will be plenty of opportunity with Ole Miss baseball and softball being on the road this weekend.

“We are very well supported by this community and this administration,” Davenport said in closing.

“In my time here, they have been very kind to us.”

The production will run from today through Saturday at Kayla Mize Auditorium at Oxford Middle School. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students of any kind, and can be purchased through OxfordSD.org.

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Freeman, FNC Park crew have been busy with tournament action t’s been a busy start to spring for Brad Freeman and his staff at FNC Park.

Freeman, the Director of FNC Park, started his month two weekends ago with the April Ambush. It was a very fitting name for the type of year it is now in regards to youth sports.

March and April is when soccer, at the park and recreation and travel levels, merge with youth baseball of all levels.

Throw in some adult and youth softball, and it’s a perfect storm for people like Freeman.

Of course, there is only one Brad Freeman, the man who has successful navigated the OPC and the USSSA together in harmony. Not enough letters for you?

Think how well Freeman has to know his ABCs in a world where every league, and every sport, has a number of them strung together to mean something in particular.

Did I mention that FNC also hosted the super popular youth football camp headlined by Ole Miss wide receiver Laquon Treadwell as well at the start of the month?

Yeah, that was here in one weekend. And the cars could be seen forever in the parking lot.

It took a minute for Freeman to get the number of soccer teams playing in the tournament. That’s a complement because even though he keeps great records, there were 59 soccer teams on the list.

Along with that, there were 83 baseball teams playing at FNC Park. All of it going on at the same time, within yards of each other. Two separate events, but both doing the same thing, bringing in people by the dozens.

This was the third year in a row that FNC Park hosted the April Ambush and the baseball tournament on the same dates.

“Every year that we’ve done both it has worked out well. It usually works out when you have good weather. It just makes it so much easier,” Freeman said. “The difference in this year’s event was the Laquon camp. We were told there were about 200 campers and I thought it was such a cool event to be able to host at the park. That was a lot of fun for the kids to attend and get to meet Laquon.”

There have been around 60 soccer teams attend for the past few years, so the number was just right. Freeman has noticed an

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The senior duo of Lee McLarty and Noah Addy have been a positive influence on the Lafayette tennis program. Each have enjoyed their final season playing with the Commodores and both are planning to keep playing in the future.

Having a ball Senior year has been a joy for LHS duo

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Noah Addy and Lee McLarty are having a ball out on the tennis courts playing for Lafayette and coach Debbie Swindoll. Both are seniors and both are new to the sport compared to some Swindoll has instructed in the past.

Addy stopped playing other sports to concentrate on tennis. He also joined the Commodores because he wanted to contribute.

“I started taking private lessons with William Foreman and joined the tennis team in 10th grade,” Addy said, who has recently paired up with McLarty in doubles. “I love it. Very natural. I wish I had played earlier. I’m planning on playing now as long as I’m physically able to.”

The thing Addy does the best in a doubles match is attacking at the net, and being aggressive overall.

“I like to hit the ball hard and put it away,” he added.

McLarty started with the Com-

modores as a sophomore. He attended a few of the summer camps that Swindoll held. His family has always known Swindoll, so there is trust there as it relates to playing and improving.

“It’s good to have a teammate around and boosting you up and also the help of Coach Debbie and Kristi Boxx, who is my private instructor,” McLarty said. “(Boxx) has helped me a lot.”

McLarty and Addy were honored on Senior Day before the Commodores took on Pontotoc at the FNC Tennis Center. Swindoll cried as she introduced the two.

“That happens every year, but it’s kind of different when it hits you, that you are a senior and this is your last year of playing high school tennis,” McLarty said. “Neither one of us are going on to play it in college, so it kind of hits you that this was one of your last few matches you will ever play.”

Addy called Senior Day “bittersweet” in the way everything hit him

and reminded about the last couple of matches.

Lafayette does at least have one more match, Friday at Cleveland, in the MHSAA Class 4A playoffs. Swindoll felt like the team has improved all year, and that in 2017, the program could make a run for a team title.

McLarty and Addy have helped push the program along, and both felt like the Commodores were headed in the right direction.

“It’s grown just since I’ve been here.

We have definitely improved a lot,” Addy said. “I feel like they will be ready to take the next step. This year, maybe, but definitely next year.”

“I feel like next year will be a good year. New Albany loses a lot and Lafayette only loses me and Noah. You don’t lose any girls this year and you have two, really good young guys, Barrett Childress and Dawson Welch, who could take this program to the next step,” McLarty added.

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Talented trio Buford, Littlejohn, Herron pace LHS powerlifting

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Strength is something Lafayette’s Shelbi Buford, Makailah Littlejohn and Madisyn Herron all have in common. Lafayette’s trio are headed to lift in this Saturday’s MHSAA powerlifting meet at the Mississippi Veterans Coliseum in Jackson.

Buford is a senior, while Littlejohn is a junior and Herron is a freshman. Littlejohn comes to Lafayette after lifting for Oxford. She started her career in the ninth grade, and this spring has been a coming out party so to speak.

“I knew people here, too,” Littlejohn said about the transition. “I started out playing basketball and we used to lift weights in basketball for conditioning and (Oxford coach Jason Russell) asked me to come out for powerlifting.”

Littlejohn was recently named to the Elite 11 squad for her success in 2016. She heads into Saturday’s meet as the favorite to win her weight class.

That’s the good news for a lifter who needed time to really get into the sport.

“It made me feel confident,” Littlejohn said about being named Elite 11.

Squat and deadlift are the two things that Littlejohn performs best at during a meet. Bench press is easy, she said, but it was a “flat character” that moves the meet along. Littlejohn wasn’t sure what she could do at the state meet, and she was going to take it how it all came. Her goal is to win a state title, and that it became her goal after she started having success.

“We talked about how the ring would look on our fingers. Go heavy or go home,” Littlejohn said about the things the team talks about.

Littlejohn would like to lift in college if at all possible. Smith seems to think that is possible as well.

“She came in strong and having been coached. She has improved with every meet. I talked to Coach Russell about her the very

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Lafayette powerlifters Makailah Littlejohn, Shelbi Buford and Madisyn Herron, seated, are headed to take part in the MHSAA state meet this Saturday in Jackson. first meet and he said she was always real strong but she never made it through an entire meet,” said Smith, who used that as motivation during the year to help Littlejohn. “She would get nervous and not execute properly. He wasn’t sure if I would have that problem. Sure enough, the first meet, she scratched out. Second meet, she did her first squat and didn’t go deep enough. Second squat, not low enough. She was down to the third squat and about to scratch out at regional and we just had to Come to Jesus meeting.”

Smith being hard on Littlejohn made all the difference in the world as she not only qualified, but it really sent her to a new level.

“I told her that the coaches at Oxford told me that you were really strong

and that you get nervous and they couldn’t count on you at a meet,” Smith recalled. “I felt bad about that, but I had to be tough.

She was over there crying and I said this is your chance. It made her mad enough to get that next squat. She hasn’t scratched at anything since.”

Herron has improved each and every meet she has taken part in. She got involved in powerlifting after hearing about it from a friend when she moved in from Oxford.

“It was hard,” Herron said about her first impression of powerlifting.

“Squat is what I do best. I have to work on my deadlift. It’s hard to get down on the ground and lift it up. I don’t struggle with it a lot, I have gotten better.”

Nervous was the feeling Herron had about competing in the state meet

last week. She said that powerlifting has brought out a competitive drive in her, and confidence overall. Smith was credited for her help during the past year.

“She’s tough, but it’s all motivation,” Herron said of Smith.

Herron likes to laugh.

She tells jokes, and laughs at the jokes of others. She and Littlejohn are close.

When she is not taking part in powerlifting, she is cheering on the Commodores as a cheerleader.

Smith said that Herron has been “really good for a first year lifter” and that the strength was still being discovered.

“She has improved and jumped like 50, 75 pounds per meet. Huge jumps. The first time a girl comes down here, they are scared of a lot of weight and it’s uncomfortable on the

back of your neck and get used to the bar resting there with the weights,” Smith said. “She has discovered more and more how strong she is and she is starting to believe in herself. The first meet, she was real timid. When they go to a meet and see what everybody else is doing, they get a little fire in their belly and they want to beat them. It motivates them and when they do it, they’re so proud of themselves because they didn’t realize they could lift that much.”

Buford is back in the state meet despite only getting one day a week to really keep in shape. Buford is a multi-sport athlete and she splits time with basketball, and softball, during the powerlifting season. In order for her to qualify for state, she had to wrap an earlier season

meet around playing in the basketball state tournament.

There are times when Buford gets tired because she is doing so much. She didn’t feel like she was any better of a lifter this year, but her experience is surely better than it’s ever been.

Buford didn’t know for sure how she would feel at the state meet, saying it all depended on how things went that day. She is now just six weeks away from graduation, something she is looking for.

The deadlift is the thing that Buford is doing the best. The squat, of the three the athletes are judged in, is the thing Buford likes the least. She thought both Herron and Littlejohn both had a good future in powerlifting.

Smith felt it was tough for Buford to train just one day a week and still be at the level she is at.

“It does show her strength. At the same time, you don’t get to see a lot of improvement from meet to meet, but she is busy doing the other sports she gets strength from that, too,” Smith said. “The basketball made her legs stronger and the workouts with the other sports help.

But by the time she got to the north state meet, she was fatigued. I give a shout out to Coach (Shayne) Linzy for even letting her go. I’ve never had a basketball coach that was that easy to work with. It was the day between games and she did real well. She’s just strong, she’s an allaround athlete. Her experience, her athleticism, her drive, she is just going to compete in whatever she does. She wants to be first all the time. Some people have that and some don’t.

She’s just been a delight to work with. I’m going to miss her. She is an encourager and she won’t say she is a leader, but she is because the other girls respect her and doing all these other sports and still at the meet with us.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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Memorable start Parkinson has come on for OM Rebels Florence-Darlington Technical College out of high school.

“It's actually a long story,” Parkinson began about how he arrived in Oxford from FDTC. “Basically, out of high school, I didn't have many looks. I had a few D-III offers and a small Division I offer to walk-on. One of my coaches told me about JUCO. I went to Florence-Darlington and fell in love with it because they were more about getting you on to the next level.

They wanted wins, but they wanted to develop me.”

That attention and approach paid off as Parkinson ended up 5-2 in 12 starts with a 2.77 ERA. He struck out 62 in 62.1 innings of work. The next thing he knew, he was on an official visit to Ole Miss last spring when the Rebels hosted Tennessee during Easter.

Parkinson had zero knowledge about former Ole Miss pitcher Bobby Wahl, who was also from Virginia, but he learned about the for-

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

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“I knew to go as hard as I needed because of the bullpen was behind me when they needed to come in,” Parkinson said adding he thought Arkansas was seeing his pitches well early. “Luckily, they went to my fielders and I have a good defense behind me. Anything that goes to them is usually going to be an out.”

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“My change up was the best it has been all year,” Parkinson said adding that his slider has become his out pitch and almost never throws a curveball. “I was able to throw that in any count. My slider has really come on. I didn't even have it at the beginning of the year. They have really developed that here and that's probably my best out pitch.

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Better spring has fueled Thornberry, OM Rebels

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Heavy rain that hit the Oxford area Monday flooded the Ole Miss golf course. Freshman Braden Thornberry was still at the clubhouse, ready to chip or putt if things dried out enough.

Such is the life of a dedicated and competitive golfer who is getting ready to compete in his first SEC Championships.

The 2015-16 season has been one about learning for Thornberry, who is from Southaven and played in high school at DeSoto Central.

“It’s been OK. I started out kind of rough. It was a lot different than in high school, a lot,” Thornberry said. “I had some good finishes, but not the kind of consistency I was really looking for. This spring, I’ve gotten more in the loop of everything and it’s starting to go well. I’m pretty happy with it.”

Thornberry was one of the most highly recruited junior golfers. He achieved a ranking of No. 12 in the nation for the 2015 class, and ranked No. 6 in the world from a junior golf status.

He was also a three-time Rolex All-American. In a nutshell, Thornberry could have gone to a number of different schools, so expectations for him to do well were high.

“I wanted to be an All-American and that’s not real common for a freshman. I wanted to be one of the better freshmen in the country and hopefully the SEC Freshman of the Year,” Thornberry said. “I don’t know where I am for that right now, somewhere in the top five, so hopefully I can play well at the SECs and see where that puts me.”

Confidence is a big part of Thornberry’s game. He didn’t have it in the fall, adding when he showed up to a tournament, he wasn’t sure he could win.

“Now, after especially winning the first one and now the second one, I feel like I’m one of the people to beat when I show up at a tournament,” said Thornberry, who has been the Rebels’ top finisher the last four tournaments and five times overall. “Whether you are or not, it’s a good mindset to go into the week. That’s what I’ve been doing lately.”

The SEC Championships begin Friday and run through Sunday at Sea Island, Georgia. Thornberry hasn’t played that specific course but he has played a course in the same resort, on the water, which makes the super competitive tournament even tougher.

“From an individual standpoint, I’m looking to finish high.

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Freshman Braden Thornberry is leading the Ole Miss Rebels in stroke average at 72.2 heading into this weekend's SEC Championships.

There are a lot of good players there, so I want to finish high,” Thornberry said. “Team standpoint, I think we’re good enough to beat all those teams. Some may be ranked higher, but if we play our game, I think we can definitely beat them.”

In order for the Rebels to make it to the NCAA Regionals, they had to be over .500 from a win-lose standpoint. In the two most recent tournaments, the Rebels have finished first and second, which has improved their standing overall.

There was some work to make up after the fall, Thornberry said.

“We actually got it back and we’re three above right now. I don’t know what our actual wins and losses are, but I do know we have three more wins than losses,” Thornberry said. “I think at SECs, if we play well, and keep that intact, then we’ll make the

regionals and then we have to finish in the top five at regionals I believe to make it. We’ve put ourselves in the position to do it.”

Being away from home has been just fine for Thornberry, who added that it’s a lifestyle change having to do everything on his own now.

“It was a little bit of a struggle to me the first month or two, but now that I’m into the rhythm of everything, I like it a lot,” Thornberry said. “I went home this past Sunday and watched The Masters with my dad.”

Beau Briggs, a freshman from Covington, Louisiana, is roommates with Thornberry and the two have become close.

“I really like everyone on the team. We hang out a ton outside of golf,” Thornberry added. “Forrest Gamble, he’s a senior, we’re pretty good friends. We’re unfor-

tunately losing him for next year.”

Thornberry was doing his best to do everything right, on and off the course, from a leadership standpoint.

“It’s hard as a freshman to be a leader when you have juniors and seniors. It’s kind of doing the right things and I’m trying to be a leader that way instead of a vocal leader,” Thornberry said. “I feel like that gets more out of it than telling somebody to do this or do that. As far as telling them things, they’re not going to listen to you as much as if you were a senior telling a freshman. I think it’s more do the right things and they will see what you’re doing and just go from there.”

Golf is a passion for Thornberry, who leads the Rebels in stroke average at 72.2. He wants to make it his career and not just get him through school.

In the spring, Thornberry has been driving the ball, and then putting it into the hole.

“My chipping has been pretty consistent. That’s been the best part of my game,” he said. “My long game has been the biggest improvement. My drive has been around 290 (yards) depending on the conditions. It just depends on where you hit it. I think everything has improved.

“Nothing has drastically gotten better, it’s slowly getting better.

I’ve gotten in better shape and lost almost 20 pounds since I got to college,” Thornberry added.

“My time management is better.

We have a good weight program, and great trainers, and access to better food here. It’s easier to stay in a rhythm here.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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State bound Chargers roll to titles in 2-5A Tournament

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

Oxford's Chargers continued to impress on the tennis courts Tuesday. A total of 10 players advanced to play in next month's MHSAA Class 5 Individual State Championships May 9-11 by winning at the Division 2-5A meet held at the FNC Tennis Center.

Gus Morgan advanced for the Chargers in singles with a title win, while Grace Anne Jones won the title in girls singles.

All five of Oxford's singles teams advanced by finishing first, or second. Bo Nash and Will Swindoll won the 2-5A title at boys singles. Teammates Ryan Mounce and Gordon Whitwell are also set to play in the state tournament.

The duo of Sarah Nash and McClellan Davis are 2-5A champions for girls singles.

Amanda Lowery and Anne Hardy will join them in the state championships. In mixed doubles, Abbie Vaughn and Max Mauney were crowned 2-5A champions.

Also advancing to the state tournament besides the 10 Chargers were Saltillo's Alan Rivera in boys singles, Saltillo's mixed doubles team of Andrew Walker and Katie Flowers and New Hope's Raegan Hall in girls singles.

Results Morgan won his first match 6-0, 6-0 and then won 6-0, 6-1 in the final. He beat Rivera in the title match. Jones won both of her matches in 6-0, 60 fashion. Her title win came over Hall.

Bo Nash and Swindoll won 6-0, 6-0 over the No. 2 team from Saltillo and then 6-1, 6-0 over West Point. Mounce and Whitwell won 6-0, 6-0 over New Hope in the first match, and then won 6-0, 6-0 over the No. 1 team from Saltillo.

Davis and Sarah Nash beat Saltillo's No. 2 team 6-0, 6-0, New Hope's No. 2 team 6-0, 60 and beat Hardy and Lowery 6-3, 7-5 in the final. Hardy and Lowery beat New Hope's No. 1 team 6-0, 6-0 and Saltillo's top team 6-1, 6-0.

Vaughn and Mauney beat West Point 6-0, 6-0 and Saltillo 6-0, 6-0. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

JOHN DAVIS

Oxford's Gus Morgan gets set to return a shot during one of his singles matches Tuesday in the Division 2-5A Tournament at FNC Park. Morgan won the title to advance to play in next month's 5A state championships.

Abbie Vaughn and her mixed doubles partner Max Mauney won the 2-5A title and will compete in next month's 5A state tournament.

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Tournament FROM PAGE 17

increase in the number of baseball teams that have come through to play in tournaments.

“Our first event that we did was the March 18-20 weekend and we got 144 baseball teams and that was the most we ever thought about having for a baseball event,” Freeman said.

There are new turf infields at FNC Park, and so far, so good.

Freeman received positive comments from mothers who don’t have to pre treat uniforms for dirt stains any more.

“I do attribute the record crowd due to the buzz of having these new infields. The feedback we got off them was really good and it seems like folks are really enjoying them,” he added.

The baseball players who signed up for the OPC season are just getting underway now, but Freeman noticed them enjoying the new fields during practice sessions.

“It’s the exact same surface that Notre Dame plays on, their baseball team, and the Louisville Cardinals play on,” Freeman said.

“It’s a collegiate, professional grade surface. The impetus for the idea was because we get so much rain out here. It rains a lot

in Oxford. I didn’t realize how much until I had to know it rained in Oxford. You become acutely aware of the rain amounts when you have 144 teams in for baseball and here comes a big thunderstorm off Sardis Lake.

“We researched it out and there is a facility in Louisiana that has turf infield. We talked to their park and rec director and he just raved about it because of the playability. You can catch one of those showers for 30 minutes and as soon as it’s done, you can get right back out there and be playing on it.”

The new fields only enhance what many have considered one of the best, if not the top, facility in North Mississippi. Four sponsors came along for the fields, and Freeman said that made it even easier to install.

Tournaments like this bring in money to the area. How much money varies some, but owners of hotels and restaurants had to be happy. Gas station owners as well.

“I went into Skymart that Sunday morning at 7:30 and they said they could barely keep up that Saturday,” Freeman said. “They just had a really, really big day.

That’s good. That’s why we built the place. For the kids and the community.”

There was no rest for the weary

last weekend as FNC hosted another 90 baseball teams in a tournament. There is a fast-pitch softball tournament this weekend and then next weekend, when the Double Decker Arts Festival is going on, there is another big baseball event with over 90 teams expected.

Then April 30 through May 1 is the Admiral Cup and that was awarded to FNC Park by the Mississippi Soccer Association. Over 120 soccer teams from all over the state will take part in that event.

“We blocked off well over 1,000 hotel rooms for these teams in anticipation of their stay,” Freeman said. “Then May 6-8, we NCSAA College Showcase soccer event. We teamed up with a group out of Maryland and they do soccer tournaments all over the Northeast and the Midwest and they’re trying to expand in the South. We’re also doing a big baseball event that same weekend. Then it’s graduation and we had to give up an event because there were no hotel rooms. We couldn’t do this event and have graduation at the same time.”

It’s a good problem to have for the area economy, and for Freeman, a good weekend for him to finally get some rest.

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Duo FROM PAGE 17

A poacher is something that Swindoll loves to have in doubles, and that is the role McLarty plays the best.

“My serves are hit or miss.

When they’re on, they’re really good and when they’re off, they’re mediocre,” he said. “My serves have gotten a ton better than what they were a couple of years ago.

Actually just this year, back in November, Kristi Boxx changed my serve so that threw a little wrinkle in the whole process, but it turned out for the better.”

McLarty felt like he would continue to play tennis in the future, like Addy, and hit the ball around with his family or anyone else. McLarty is headed to school at Ole Miss, while Addy is headed to Mississippi State.

“We’ve known each other going to school together but we never really had classes together or anything like that,” said McLarty, who played a lot of mixed doubles in the past, while Addy played more singles until the two came together. “It’s been a good senior year, coming

out here and having to do something everyday instead of just going home.”

“It’s been a great year, my best so far,” Addy said.

The thing that the two liked about Swindoll was how good of a mentor she was off the court.

“She has characteristics that anyone desires or wants to have,” McLarty said. “She is just a good person all around. She gives you constructive criticism that will help you get better.”

“She is definitely the best coach around. She is great on and off the court and she has helped me grow as a person and as a tennis player,” Addy said.

Swindoll praised both of her players, saying they were great young men, and leaders.

“They set a great example for our other kids and they have both really improved for two players that got started late in tennis,” Swindoll said. “I think so much of both of them. I will miss them and I appreciate their contributions to our program.”

John.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016

Rebels looking to finish season at home strong

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

A big crowd at the Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center does make a difference. Ole Miss men's tennis coach Toby Hansson saw that two weekends ago when the Rebels knocked off the Mississippi State Bulldogs. Over 1,000 people pulled the Rebels through that Friday and Hansson would love to see that type of atmosphere this weekend, the final of the season, when the Rebels host South Carolina and Georgia.

Fans will have an opportunity to dine on chicken, and get a free Tshirt of Stefan Lindmark. Hansson was also upbeat about the weather.

“The crowd is a difference maker.

There is no question about it, the crowd got that extra point for us” Hansson said. “We play better in front of a big crowd. I've had several of my guys come up to me after that match and say that the crowd was amazing. The crowd helped me get the win, that the crowd got them really pumped over some tough spots

Tennis Friday: 5 p.m. vs. South Carolina Saturday: 1 p.m. v. Georgia in the match and help me get the win. I can't tell you how important it was.”

Ole Miss is playing better down the stretch of the season. Hansson's Rebels are 13-8 overall, and coming off a 5-2 road win over Vanderbilt in SEC play, and four home wins over Alcorn State and Arkansas-Pine Bluff.

“We played great doubles and what we really did well was we kept believing throughout the whole match and we were able to turn four matches around because all the guys just kept competing,” Hansson said.

“That's how we turned it around be-

cause after an hour and 15 minutes, it looked like it could be a pretty tough day. They did an unbelievable job of taking it to a third set and then to close it out in the third set.”

The Gamecocks are up first for the Rebels on Friday evening at 5. They are ranked No. 51 in the latest ITA Team Rankings. Hansson said they were a good team from top to bottom. Georgia, ranked No. 6 in the nation, comes in on Sunday on Senior Day for a match that starts at 1 p.m.

The Bulldogs are one of the top programs in the SEC and are 10-0 league matches.

“They have a well balanced team with experience and youth,” Hansson said. “They are playing some confident tennis right now. We encourage everyone to come out because they have won some very close matches and I really think if we can do what we're doing right now, and give ourselves a chance to win, with the crowd, we can get it done.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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BREIFING Brushstrokes for Bramlett

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Seven players from the Oxford A benefit to help Oxford's Bramlett Park Commission’s Leisure Lifestyle Elementary PTO and the art departPickleball program were among the ment will be held April 28 at the Powerhouse from 4:30 until 6:30 p.m. Each 120 participants from five states in the two day events. class at Bramlett and the Scott Center Alan Blackburn and his partner will create artwork and there will be a from Memphis, Jim Young, captured silent auction held. There will be live music from Rockett 88. Entertainment the Gold Medal in the Men’s Doubles event. Steve and Stephen Dziduch for children will be provided by Studio Whimzy. There will be food provided by took the Silver Medal in the same Yoknapatocao and Oxsicles, as well as event.

In the Mixed Doubles, this time a Photo Bomb photo booth. Questions Alan teamed up with Cora Beth about the event may be directed to Smith and they brought home to Oxashleyhwindham@yahoo.com ford another Gold Medal. Steve and Successful Dawn Dziduch took the Silver Medal in the same event.

Pickleball Rounding out the Leisure Lifestyle tourney held Pickleball team with strong performances were Lucy Bartlett and Jenn Aiken.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016

Tigers blank Commodores to win 2-4A baseball title

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

RIPLEY – Some early runs that would have led to some early momentum is what Lafayette coach Greg Lewis was hoping to get from his Commodores Tuesday night. Ripley pitcher Jes Medlin had other ideas.

Lafayette loaded the bases in the top of the first inning only to see Medlin get out of the jam with a strikeout. He had three that frame, and the Tigers never let Lafayette gain any momentum en route to a 9-0 win. The victory improved them to 21-2 overall, and 90 in Division 2-4A. They will be the top seed from the division with the MHSAA Class 4A playoffs begin next weekend.

“That's a huge part of the game. If we get two or even one right there, it just breaks the ice a little bit,” Lewis said. “I thought we had a good approach at the plate tonight. I thought we hit the ball well. We had somebody on base every inning or in scoring position.”

Lafayette ended up stranding 10 runners on base through six innings.

Ripley retired the Commodores in order in the

seventh. Medlin finished with six strikeouts overall.

“It's great in a way because we got them on base but heartbreaking as well.

Guys have to step up and do a job the plate and it's disappointing we didn't put the ball in play in that first inning,” Lewis said. “I felt like we needed to score early here. If we score early, it's going to let Reed (Robison) have some confidence because their three, four and five guys can really hit it, they can really drive the ball. I thought we needed to score five tonight and early to help us gain some confidence.”

Ripley coach Joel Gafford thought the early runs could have changed the game a little bit, but he feels confident in the way his team swings the bat at the plate. Ripley finished with 12 hits overall, with Tucker Childers leading the way with three hits, two of them doubles, and two RBIs. “I don't ever think we're out of the game offensively.

It did probably kill some of their momentum and give us some,” Gafford said.

“That's baseball.

We shouldn't have been in that situation if do the bunt coverage correctly. We end up shooting ourselves in the foot a lot of times.”

these teams. We're going to see these type teams in the playoffs, it doesn't matter where you're at.”

Mack Bishop will start on the mound for the Commodores and Lewis said they needed a good outing out of him.

“We still have Luke (Gossett), but I need five good innings out of Mack. If he can give us five, six good innings, I pulled Reed off of there and I feel like he could give us one if we needed him to in a closer type setting,” Lewis said.

“You do have to feel good with Mack at our place.”

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Lafayette’s Xavier Martin led the team with three hits Tuesday night in a 9-0 loss to Ripley.

As for the victory, and winning games even when other teams have Ripley as the team to beat, Gafford was proud for the way his team has handled their business.

“We talk about the games before division started and we were wanting to see everybody's ace and take everybody's best shot and so far we've handled that pretty well,” Gafford said.

“We've had a few down games but most of that

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starts with our mental approach and our energy in the dugout. We were pretty psyched up tonight to be in this position. I'm just happy for the way that we played.”

The Commodores will host Ripley in the final 2-4A game of the season on Friday. Lewis felt like the Tigers would want to end the year with a perfect record. Lafayette had to sweep Ripley in order to be the champions. Now, the

Commodores have to win in order to maintain the No. 2 seed.

“I told them that we're going back to our place now and let's get over there and fight like you did today,” Lewis said. “Hopefully a few of the balls fall in and we get a few runs. If you do that, you can get a win at home against a very good team, a team that I see being a north half contender with Houston. You have learn how to beat

Xavier Martin collected three hits to lead Lafayette at the top of the lineup.

Lewis said he was doing a good job there.

“He was doing a good job when we had him in the nine hole, but we flip flopped and he's done a good job of battling at the plate more than anything else,” Lewis said. “He had another good night. I feel real good about the lineup.

I think we plugged in everybody where we need to have them, especially going into the playoffs.” john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

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OMS Chargers complete season unbeaten

BY JOHN DAVIS SPORTS EDITOR

The Oxford Middle School Relays ran one day later than scheduled due to weather, but OMS concluded the track season Tuesday afternoon under beautiful spring skies.

“This is the first time I can remember that both of our track meets were rained out and we had to reschedule,” OMS coach Michael Hardwick said. “I am just thankful that a couple of teams could come and run and enjoy such a nice day.”

Six team were originally scheduled to compete, but with high school district meets coming up later this week, many junior high athletes were moved up to compete. That left only West Point and Tunica to come and compete.

“We made this meet basically a 'tri-meet' and we scored two athletes in every event so everyone would

have a chance to compete,” Hardwick said.

The Chargers completed an undefeated season by totaling 100 points. Tunica was second with 59 and while West Point had 45.

The Chargers' “blue” team scored 39 to take fourth place.

The field events continued to be a strong area, as Wesley Peques finished first in the triple jump, while Gregory Stringer placed second for the blue team.

Tykel Owens finished 4th.

In the long jump, Sam Bianco finished second.

In the high jump, Owens finished in a three-way tie for first, and was awarded second on the number of successful attempts. The Chargers were extremely strong in the shop put and discuss.

“We have underachieved a little bit in both of these event,” Hardwick said. “And I thought we were ready to have a good day.”

In the shot, the Chargers

took three out of four places as TJ Lawson finishing second with a throw of 42 feet, 6 inches. Kiyon Williams took third and De De Gross finished fourth.

The highlight of the field event was the discus, where the Chargers took all four places.

“A tremendous effort by all of these guys,” Hardwick said. “They are all really close in ability and this was a great way to the end the season.”

Williams finished first with a throw of 108- 9, “an exceptional throw” Hardwick said.

“Anything close to 110 feet and over is really outstanding.”

Kendrick Blackmon finished second, with Don Fruge and Lawson finishing fourth The Chargers began the running portion of the meet by winning the 3,200 meters, with Walt Johnson and Winn McArthur finishing first and second.

“Walt is undefeated this season in this race,” Hardwick said.

In the 100 hurdles, Owens moved close to the OMS record books by recording a time of 13.96 seconds. “His goal was to go under 14 seconds in a meet, and this puts him as one of only tw OMS runners to ever have gone under 14 seconds,” Hardwick said.

Kylin Blackmon finished 4th. In the 100, Trayzion Wadlington finished fourth, and the 4 X 200 relay team rebounded from their first loss in two years last week, to win with a time of 1 minute, 36 seconds, which is 0.5 seconds off of the school record with team members Ladarius Giles, Wesley Peques, Wadlington, and Byron Pearson.

“Tthis was the best race of the day, where Byron ran a fantastic last leg to catch Tunica about 15 yards from the end, and also Trayzion

Wadlington subbed in for an injured Tykel Owens and also ran a great 3rd leg,” Hardwick said.

In the 1600, the Chargers took first, second, and third with Sam Shelton, Johnson, and Stone Tosh respectively.

In the 4 X 100 relay, Tunica returned the favor by nipping the Chargers at the end as Giles, Bianco, Pearson and Kelvin Wadley finished second in a time of 47.81.

“We deserved to finish second in this race, as we have several times better than this,” Hardwick said.

In the 800, Jacob Rousseau finished first while Robert Culpepper finished third. In the 300 hurdles, Stetson Ponder finished second, while Ethan Johnson finished third. In the 400, Robert Culpepper finished third while Dalton Whitehead finished fourth. In the 200, Byron Pearson finished second and Wadley fin-

ished fourth. The Chargers finished the meet, by capturing the 4 X 400 relay, as Giles, Peques, Bianco and Pearson ran a 4.02:59 to win.

“This is one of our best ever times for this event,” Hardwick said. “We had two runners with splits below 60 seconds and one runner right at 60 seconds.

A great race and a great race to end our 2016 track season.”

By winning, the Chargers pushed their dual meet winning streak to being undefeated for the past three years, which was their only loss in the past 9 years.

“We have been really blessed to have great runners and participants, but also blessed in that we usually have 75 guys to try out.

Track is a major sport for us, and our guys are always excited about track season,” Hardwick said. john.davis@journalinc.com Twitter: @oxfordcitizenjd

OLE MISS SPORTS ROUNDUP Men's Golf The Ole Miss men's golf team has inked Kerry Sweeney, the nation's top junior college golfer, to a national letter of intent head coach Chris Malloy announced Wednesday. Sweeney will join the Rebels for the 2016-2017 academic year.

The Eastern Florida State College standout won the 2015 Jack Nicklaus Award as the Golf Coaches Association of America's Junior College Player of the Year last year and finished tied for second at the 2015 NJCAA Men's Division One National Championship. He also earned first-team Ping and NJCAA All America honors last year and was named the 2015 Phil Mickelson Award winner as the Most Outstanding Freshman at the junior college level.

“We are very excited to add a player of Kerry's caliber," Malloy said. “Anytime you can add a player with the accomplishments Kerry brings you are going to get better as a program. The other exciting thing from a coaches standpoint is that he is a very mature young man that can help be a leader immediately.”

Sweeney has three career wins at Eastern Florida, including the Buccaneer Invitational by six strokes, and has competed

in the 2016 Patriot Invitational and the 2015 South Beach Amateur and Southern Amateur.

The Melbourne, Florida native claimed the 2013 Florida Class 1A High School Championship as a junior at Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy and captured the 2014 club championship at Suntree Country Club in Melbourne.

For all Ole Miss men's golf news and information, follow the Rebels all season on Twitter at @OleMissMGolf, on Instagram at OleMissMGolf and on Facebook at OleMissMGolf. Fans can also follow head coach Chris Malloy on Twitter@coachmalloy12.

Rebel Choice Awards April 25 Spring is in full bloom on the Ole Miss campus and that mean’s the sixth annual Rebels’ Choice Awards are just around the corner. The annual event, celebrating the accomplishments – both academic and athletic – of Ole Miss studentathletes, is slated for April 25, 2016 inside the brand new Pavilion at Ole Miss. Richard Cross will serve as master of ceremonies and DJ Babi Mac will be a special guest.

The Rebels’ Choice Awards is

an event to celebrate Ole Miss student athletes but the Rebels would like to share their special evening with the greater Oxford, Lafayette and University communities. The Ole Miss athletics department is inviting all to come share in the free annual awards show. The red carpet, featuring Ole Miss student athletes, will begin at 5:30 p.m. at The Pavilion plaza with the awards show scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. In addition, Steak and Shake and Raising Canes will be open prior to the start of the show.

The Rebels’ Choice Awards include 18 awards in which members of Ole Miss senior administration and Ole Miss student-athlete advisory committee (SAAC) select the winners.

Awards include men’s and women’s sports winners in the following categories: Most Valuable Rebel, Rookie of the Year, Coach of the Year, Team of the Year, Scholar-Athlete of the Year, HottyToddy Award. Ole Miss also annually gives out the Bennie Abram Award, given in memory of former Ole Miss football walk-on Bennie Abram who passed away, is given to a walkon student-athlete who exemplifies the spirit of Bennie Abram.

The Rebels' Choice Awards is built into the celebration of Na-

tional Student-Athlete Day, which is celebrated every year in April. Established in 1987, National Student-Athlete Day is America's day to celebrate outstanding student-athletes who have achieved excellence in academics and athletics while having made significant contributions to the community. The day was established by the National Consortium for Academics & Sports and Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society and is co-sponsored by the NCAA. Ole Miss Student-Athlete Development Mission ?The mission of Ole Miss’ Student-Athlete Development program is to challenge studentathletes to be lifelong learners while pursuing continuous improvement academically, relationally, socially, personally, and professionally during and beyond their careers as studentathletes.

Student-Athlete Development is the hub for a wide range of Ole Miss athletics sponsored programs designed to meet the needs of student-athletes and their families. It is divided into six areas: Student-Athlete Assistance Services, Career Development, Continuing Education, Community Outreach, Financial Education and Career Transition.

Teams gain APR awards

each year. It is a reflection of the hard work and dedication of the student-athletes to compete at a high level and also graduFor the Ole Miss women’s ate. It also is a testament to the tennis and volleyball teams, coaches, administration and success is not limited to the staff who work tirelessly for the courts. Both teams have been recognized for their outstanding students to be successful while at the University of Mississippi performance in the classroom and beyond.” with an NCAA Public RecogniWomen’s tennis is one of tion Award. seven Southeastern Conference Based on their most recent schools to receive the award. multiyear Academic Progress Ole Miss is one of only three Rate, these teams have earned SEC schools to have its volleyNCAA Public Recognition Awards for posting scores in the ball team earn an APR award.

The Rebels conclude their top 10 percent of their sport.

The APR is an annual scorecard spring competition Saturday of academic achievement calcu- hosting Missouri State at the Gillom Sports Center. First serve lated for all Division I sports is at noon, and admission is teams nationally. free.

Both volleyball and women’s All Division I teams’ APR tennis are among 944 teams scores will be released April 20. who earned a perfect 1,000 All teams must meet a certain APR. Volleyball earned the academic threshold to qualify award for the fifth time and for the postseason and can face fourth year in a row, while penalties for continued low acawomen’s tennis received the demic performance. The APR award for the third time. measures eligibility, graduation “Today we recognize the and retention each term and women’s tennis and women’s provides a clear picture of the volleyball teams for their outstanding accomplishment,” sen- academic performance for each team in every sport. ior associate athletics director The most recent APRs are Derek Cowherd said. “Earning a perfect APR score over any four- multiyear rates based on scores from the 2011-2012, 2012-13, year period is not only impres2013-14 and 2014-15 acasive but has become a very attainable goal for several teams demic years.

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