Unless you’ve been under a rock…surely you would know by now that our Lady Gamecock softball team has won the OVC Championship and are heading to the NCAA Regional Championships in Atlanta.
Our first hurdle is playing Georgia Tech on Friday night at 8 pm. Hopefully you’ll grab your best JSU Gear (Get Cocky Brand preferably—LOL) and head to Atlanta to cheer the girls on. If you can’t make it to the field, check the game out on ESPN.
You heard those 4 letters right — our softball team is getting national exposure and it seems to be a continuous growing thing that Coach McGinnis keeps providing each year here lately!
I must say that while I am proud of the entire JSU Softball team — I am particularly proud of Coach Jana McGinnis and all that she has accomplished.
Coach McGinnis and her twin sister lived 2 doors down from me in Curtiss Hall my freshman year at JSU. The two were incredible basketball stars on campus and you would think that having the popularity that they did a little freshman like myself wouldn’t even be a blip on their radar. But as anyone who has met them would tell you — that simply just wasn’t their way. They were both always so nice…always a hello…always warm…and if you weren’t a basketball fan, you probably wouldn’t even know that they were the dynamic duo that ruled the Coliseum and tore up any team they faced.
Coach McGinnis and her sister returned to coach at JSU after a stint coaching High School. Dana coached basketball and Jana assisted her and then took on the softball team.
17 seasons later — here we are on ESPN and winning the OVC Championship! But even more than that, she’s developing her team into individuals who are just like she and her sister were in the dorm — warm, friendly, down to earth, a part of the JSU family and teaching how to be successful both on the field and off.
I’m always proud to call myself a Gamecock but I’m even prouder of what Coach McGinnis has accomplished and continues to accomplish to make our University and our students the best in the nation!
See you at Tech on Friday night — GOOOOOO Gamecocks!!
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