It’s been a pretty well known fact that Jacksonville State’s Volleyball program has been on fire in recent years! Fantastic finishes in OVC Championships and NCAA Tournament appearances to their credit — they resignate our cheer that “It is GREAT to be a Jax State Gamecock!”
Apparently even Auburn has been watching the JSU Volleyball program as this summer they hired our coach Rick Nold to lead the Tigers/War Eagles/Plainsmen to the promised land in the SEC.
So add a little more excitement with the hiring of Joseph Goodson to lead our Lady Gameocks and take us to the next level.
Coach Goodson arrives here from coaching at University of Wisconsin — Green Bay but is actually from our neighboring state of Georgia. A Graduate of Berry College, he has coached at Georgia Tech, Emory, and UGA. We are excited about what he has to offer and what it will mean to continuing the explosion of our program in a national level!
Get Cocky! wanted to celebrate our Volleyball program as well so we have developed a new volleyball line that is available now online and in our store on the square! This line is not only in our regular t-shirts but also in women’s cut t-shirts for our Lady Gamecocks!
So we would like to challenge all of our students, alumni, and friends to “Pack The Pete” this season and lets cheer our Lady Gamecocks all the way to the championship!
GO GAMECOCKS!
(Source: GetCockyJSU.com)
This weekend some really amazing things occurred for the “Hen House!”
The Lady Gamecock Volleyball team travelled to Tallahassee to play in the NCAA Tournament.
For those of you who only focus on the football team or the Marching Southerners—let me catch you up to speed. This year is their THIRD appearance in the tournament and their FOURTH OVC Championship in five years!
They beat one of the home teams — Florida A&M on Saturday afternoon and then faced #3 in the country Florida State on Sunday. They lost 3-0.
But before you start thinking the “Well, we’re just a little school in Alabama” excuse — look closer at the set scores! 25-18, 26-24, 25-22 Literally, victory was within their reach and Florida State did not have an easy time moving to the next round. Similiar to our meeting FSU in football, we demonstrated that we have Division I potential written all over our women’s volleyball team!
So congratulations Coach Nold and the Lady Gamecocks on your fantastic season! We can’t wait to see what you have in store for us next year! This season definitely makes us proud to be Gamecocks!
