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)
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!!
This week we had out Grand Opening Celebration — complete with Ribbon Cutting!
As I have said before, this has been a 20 year dream and there has been so many amazing “firsts” along this path — the first design, first shirt printed, first sale, first time we walked into what is now our shop, first pieces of the wood floor put down, first day of “move in”, the first day we opened the doors….
But this was THE Grand Opening — the day we could celebrate that we did it — we took this from idea and dream to reality. Filled with food, friends (both old and new), and fellowship and it was an awesome day!
President Meehan and Cocky himself joined our staff, friends, media, and customers for our Ribbon Cutting of officially opening the store!
While we enjoyed our cake (made by our good friend Sharon Alexander with Sweet Sensations of Newnan, Georgia) and chocolate fountain with lots of dippers (including red stuffed Oreos for the occasion!), Cocky ran outside and went up and down the square pointing our store out to drivers and pedestrians passing by!
We are so proud of our store, proud to be Gamecocks, and proud to be in Jacksonville!
It’s amazing to think that the year has flown by so quickly that we’re actually approaching Spring Break next week! It’s been a fantastic few weeks at the store and we thank everyone for being so welcoming to us in Jacksonville!
Many of you have asked us about Spring Break hours — we will be closing on Friday, March 12th, at 3 pm and will reopen on Monday, March 22nd, at 11 am.
We will be open extended hours on Saturday, March 27th, for Spring Preview Day and hope all of those incoming freshmen and their families will come see us!
We will also be open with extended hours on Saturday, April 10th, for the Spring Football Game! Lots of festivities going on that day as well as the baseball team playing! It’s going to be a great day to be in Jacksonville so make sure you come too! Things are really buzzing and if you haven’t been “home” in a while, grab the family and come make a full day of it!
Got questions or comments? Let us know! blog@getcockyjsu.com
That’s right! With a little bit of the Irish, we’ve created a fantastic t-shirt just in time for St. Patrick’s Day!
This green tee declares you are LUCKY but with a little JSU to boot! :-) And only at $15!
This t-shirt is available for only a limited time and only offered in limited quantities so order yours today online at GetCockyJSU.com or at our new store on the square in Jacksonville!
Since we started our web-store and our Facebook and Twitter pages, we keep hearing (ok, reading) from JSU Students who say that there is nothing to do in J’ville or that they wish there were other opportunities or stores in J’ville….
So let’s hear from you! What is it that you wish there WAS to do in or what kind of services do you wish were available to you in J’ville?
Let us know! We want to listen!! blog@GetCockyJSU.com
