2013 EMCC Football News

East Mississippi Community College's highly acclaimed annual summer football camps are scheduled for next month on the Scooba campus.

Former East Mississippi Community College quarterback and head football coach Randall Bradberry was one of 15 individuals across the state inducted into the Mississippi Community and Junior College Sports Hall of Fame during Tuesday night's eighth annual induction banquet held at the Clyde Muse Center on Hinds Community College's Rankin Campus.

East Mississippi Community College's second national football championship season in three years was celebrated during Saturday night's ring presentation banquet held in the Lyceum auditorium on EMCC's Golden Triangle campus.

East Mississippi Community College's 2013 NJCAA National Championship football team was honored Wednesday morning at the Mississippi State Senate in Jackson with the presentation of Senate Concurrent Resolution 520.

East Mississippi Community College football fans will be able to relive the Lions' 2013 NJCAA National Championship season with the comprehensive DVD set of "Inside the PR1DE: The Complete Second Season" available for purchase now.

Reigning NJCAA Champion East Mississippi Community College will conduct open football tryouts for high school seniors on Friday, Feb. 14 on the Scooba campus.

A total of 24 football signees were announced Wednesday by head football coach Buddy Stephens of the 2013 NJCAA National Champion Lions of East Mississippi Community College.

An additional four players from East Mississippi Community College's 2013 NJCAA National Championship team officially put their signatures on National Letters of Intent during Wednesday's national signing day activities held on the Scooba campus.

For the second time in three seasons after leading the Lions of East Mississippi Community College to the NJCAA National Championship, EMCC head football coach Buddy Stephens has been named the 2013 Junior College National Coach of the Year by American Football Monthly magazine, a nationally renowned football coaches' publication.

East Mississippi Community College continues to provide a pipeline for football talent moving onto the next level, as 11 players from the Lions' 2013 NJCAA National Championship team signed National Letters of Intent with four-year universities Wednesday during the first day of the NCAA's mid-year signing period for junior college transfers.

For their individual on-field efforts in helping lead East Mississippi Community College to the program's second NJCAA National Championship in three years, six members of this year's unbeaten EMCC Lions football team have been accorded NJCAA All-American honors.

For the second time in three years, East Mississippi Community College wrapped up a perfect season by winning a national championship -- topping Georgia Military College 52-32 here at Biloxi Indian Stadium Sunday afternoon in the 2013 Mississippi Bowl.

The wind chill at the Ocean Springs Sports Complex Saturday hovered just above freezing. But members of the Jackson County-based Dream Program weren't complaining about the cold conditions one bit.

Football champions of the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges and NJCAA Region 23 for the third time in five years, the second-ranked Lions of East Mississippi Community College will vie for their second NJCAA National Championship in three years when they battle top-ranked Georgia Military College this Sunday (Dec. 8) in Mississippi Bowl VI.

Headlined by Region 23 Offensive Most Valuable Player Dontreal Pruitt and Coach of the Year Buddy Stephens, the MACJC State Champion Lions of East Mississippi Community College have placed a state-high eight players on this year's NJCAA All-Region 23 Football Team, announced Tuesday by the Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges office headquartered in Jackson.

The second-ranked Lions of East Mississippi Community College captured their third state football title in five years by cruising to a 61-24 home victory over fourth-ranked Jones County Junior College during Saturday's MACJC State Championship Game played in front of a packed house at EMCC's Sullivan-Windham Field.