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!
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!
At the end of most years, most people are ready to be done with the year and move onto new beginnings. With all that has happened in the world with the recession, I really can’t blame anyone for those feelings. However, I must admit that while I’m really excited about 2010, I have to say that 2009 was filled with great beginnings for Get Cocky!
As I have already talked about in this blog, Get Cocky has been a 20 year old dream that I came up with when I was a student at Jacksonville State. So having that dream come true was such an amazing experience!
We opened up our web-based store in September this year and amazed at the huge response we received! Apparently there were more JSU peeps wanting something different than just me! 2009 was a great start for Get Cocky!
But 2010 has great things in store as well — for JSU and Get Cocky!
JSU has great things in store — softball team gets to build on what they started last year, the addition to our football stadium, playing Ole Miss and Georgia State in Football season…the list goes on and on!
For Get Cocky…our product line is expanding, we are opening our physical location, and we are looking to growing our relationship with the students and residents. 2010 sounds so exciting we’re about bursting at the seems for it to start!
So thanks 2009 for a great foundation — and welcome 2010 for all the exciting things to come!
This weekend three of us headed down to Atlanta First United Methodist Church in downtown Atlanta to volunteer with the Midtown Assistance Center or MAC for short. MAC services low income individuals in the community and is sponsored by many of the downtown churches.
MAC offers a food pantry and clothes closet as well as other services to assist these individuals.
With the holidays in full swing, their donations were up and volunteers were down.
We started in the food pantry. Many schools had done food drives and brought in boxes and boxes of food that now had to be organzied by item and placed in shelves so that finding these items would be easier.
We were told that items like Green Beans and Corn are more than plentiful but that many of the requests are for more of meat products like Spagetti and Meatballs, canned fruit, collard greens, and okra.
It was amazing the generosity of people and children to donate food less fortunate than them and so in time for the holidays. But MAC representatives told us the time that they have a need when the shelves are not so full and boxes are not coming in as quickly is summer.
After less than an hour with the help of other volunteers, the food pantry was completely organized and ready for the rest of the month’s requests.
We then moved on to the clothes closet that just simply need to be checked for resizing. What great clothes people had donated and in great shape! I kept thinking about the clothes in my own closet that I keep holding on to for no good apparent reason that I need to bring in for MAC’s use.
With the number of people helping, we had everything completed in less than 2 hours. WOW — 2 hours of volunteering to assist an organization that will help hundreds of individuals make it thru to another day.
While this blog posting has nothing to do with our regular blog on JSU or sports, I just wanted to share that even YOU can do something to assist others —once a week, a month, a quarter, or a year….from organizing cans and clothes to feeding the hungry…what YOU can do can truly make a difference to others! And maybe make the “Reason for the Season” be one of a difference all year long!
Welcome to our new blog! It feels like a whole new world full of new beginnings around here and the excitement is sometimes almost like Christmas for a little kid.
I guess the best place to start this blog is to tell you a little about Get Cocky!
When I was a student (and Marching Southerner) at Jacksonville State University (that’s Alabama not Florida for those of you who are just visiting this), I wanted to have a store that was full of just JSU stuff — not like other stores that had a selection of Alabama, Auburn, UGA, and then a sliver of JSU or dare I say Troy(Sux). No—JUST JSU. I knew the name of the store, I could see the concept but I was a lowly student with no money or real business experience so that’s what it remained — a dream.
Unlike other dreams and business concepts that have floated in and out of my life, this one has stayed true to my heart and passionate in my soul that I would make come true one day.
Many business ventures later, I started bringing up this idea to my staff. We decided that now was the time to start doing the research and making GetCocky a reality.
We made many trips to Jacksonville over 2 years to visit the “other 2 stores” and see what they were offering students and talking with students on what they wished they were offered. And just like any good Chicken, Get Cocky emerged from the egg!
We decided instead of offering what the other stores had, we would design our own merchandise and have it licensed thru the school so that if you want a t-shirt with our designs, you’ll have to get it from us — oh yea, and at lower prices.
We opened our webstore (GetCockyJSU.com) on September 5th as JSU took on Georgia Tech and were floored with the response!
Our goal is to open a physical location for Get Cocky in January 2010 in Jacksonville for Gamecock Fans everywhere to enjoy our merchandise.
Wow! Blog #1 completed…lots more to come!!
Goooo Gamecocks & BLOW SOUTHERNERS!!! C’mon GET COCKY!
