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Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College:

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College will recognize the Athletic Hall of Fame, Bulldog Hall of Honor and Spirit of Gulf Coast inductees during a ceremony and reception at the Beau Rivage Resort and Casino in Biloxi at 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26. The honorees will also be introduced during pregame activities on Homecoming Day, Oct. 27, at the Perkinston Campus.
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The 2012 Athletic Hall of Fame, Bulldog Hall of Honor and Spirit of Gulf Coast honorees include the following:
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Jerry Mike Covich III
Baseball
1967-1968
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A native of Biloxi, Covich received an associate degree from the Perkinston Campus. He was a left-handed pitcher on the 1968 state championship team. Covich had a .465 batting average and a 4-0 record on the mound for the 1968 season.
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The assistant golf pro at Shell Landing,? Covich has been ranked as one of the top 10 teaching professionals on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and has been a member of the PGA Cup Team since 1986. He won the prestigious Bellande Cup in 1995, was named the Gulf States PGA Senior Player of the Year five times, is a six-time Senior Champion and has won the Mississippi Chapter of the PGA Senior Championship four times.? In 2010, he was named to the PGA President?s Council on Growing the Game.?
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John Jay Fletcher
Football
1966-1968
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A graduate of Moss Point High School, Fletcher played center on the 1967 state-champion football team and was selected Honorable Mention All-State that year. He was a letterman in football at Delta State College, where he was the starting center, and graduated in 1970 with a degree in biology.
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He taught at East Central High School in Hurley and was the junior high football coach for two years, an assistant coach at the high school for two years, and head coach for four years. He was also the offensive line coach at Pascagoula High School (1978-1982), and he coached girls track. Fletcher received his master?s degree in education from the University of South Alabama and is an agent for Nationwide Insurance in Pascagoula.
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Terry Clark Helms
Football
1970-1972
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Helms was the starting center on the 1970 football team as well as the 1971 national-champion football team.? He was inducted into the 1981 Alumni Hall of Fame as a member of the 1971 team, which, along with the 1971 cheerleaders, was inducted as a group on Homecoming Day, October 31, 1981.??
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After leaving Perk, Helms attended The University of Southern Mississippi, where he pursued a degree in therapeutic recreation.? He is also a graduate of the University of the South School of Theology Education for Ministry, with a degree in education for ministry.? He is currently president of the Keating Insurance Agency Inc., a position he has held since 1998.
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Jake Kuharich
Golf
2004-2006
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Kuharich was All-Tournament and All-American at the 2006 National Junior College Athletic Association Division II National Championship in Scottsboro, Ala., where he led the Gulf Coast golfers with a 73-73-71-73?289.? After missing a chance to play in the 2005 Region XXIII Championship, Kuharich played in more rounds than any other golfer in 2005-2006 and finished with a 73.0 winning percentage.? He qualified for the 2006 NJCAA National Championship as an individual and his total is the second all-time low 72-hole total for any MGCCC golfer.
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In 2009, he won the Slavic Invitational Golf Tournament in Biloxi, which is known as the ?greatest amateur team tournament in Mississippi.??
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Gary Lee Roberts
Basketball
1967-1969
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Roberts played basketball on the 1968 team as well as the 1969 state-champion team.? He was team captain his sophomore year. Both years the team won the South Division championship.? Roberts averaged 20 points per game during the 1968 and 1969 seasons.? He won the Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College Basketball Award in 1968 and was chosen All-State in both 1968 and 1969.
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While at Gulf Coast, Roberts was elected Phi Theta Kappa national president for 1968-1969.? He received both an academic and basketball scholarship to the American University in Washington, D.C., and graduated in 1971 with a bachelor?s degree in government and public administration.? He graduated from The University of Mississippi School of Law in 1974 with a juris doctorate. After moving to Jackson County in 1976, he practiced private law.? He served more than 23 years as a municipal judge for the city of Gautier, retiring from that position in 2011.?
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Debbie S. Triplett
Basketball
1973-1974
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Triplett played basketball during the 1973-74 season when women?s sports were played in both the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) and the Mississippi Association for Junior Colleges (MAJC).? The Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College women?s basketball team played for two state championships that year.? They won the MAIAW state trophy by defeating Hinds Junior College and lost to Hinds at Goodman for the MAJC trophy. Triplett, who helped Ross run basketball clinics during the year, was an honor student and member of Phi Theta Kappa.? She also played on the college volleyball team.
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Triplett attended Delta State University, graduating with honors.? She received her master?s degree in education and administration, both with honors, from William Carey University.? She coached the junior high girls basketball team in Lizana and the junior high girls basketball and girls? high school basketball in Hancock County. She was the athletic director at Bay-Waveland School District for 15 years. She was named district Coach of the Year in 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2009, and was the Coach of the Year for Mississippi Athletic Conference and National Federation of State High School Associations in 2003.?
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Bulldog Hall of Honor
Diane Marie (Poulos) Sekul
Cheerleader Sponsor
1979-1987
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Sekul, a Gulf Coast alumna (1974-1976), sponsored both the football and basketball cheerleading squads from 1979-1983. In 1983-1984, she sponsored the football cheerleading squad only and continued to sponsor that squad through 1987.
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Sekul was the Dees Hall faculty secretary (1979-1988) and secretary to Dr. Clyde Strickland, campus vice president, until 1991.? She transferred to the vice president?s office at the Jefferson Davis Campus and remained there for two years.
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After leaving the college, she attended The University of Southern Mississippi, becoming a certified real-estate appraiser.? She worked as a commercial real-estate appraiser until 1998. A lifetime member of the Maritime and Seafood Museum, MGCCC Alumni Association, the Bulldog Club and the Ohr-O?Keefe Museum of Art, Sekul remains active in the Coast community.? She currently owns real-estate rentals, which she manages.
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Sekul and her husband, George Sekul, have three daughters, Gia, Kari and Michelle, and five grandchildren.
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Gregory ?Buddy? Allen Mills
Spirit of Gulf Coast Award
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Gregory ?Buddy? Allen Mills? love of sports began in 1979 while attending D?Iberville Middle School.? He was introduced to Gulf Coast sports by his classmates and is now a regular at almost every home football and baseball game.? ?Buddy is of our greatest fans and his presence means a lot to our coaches and players,? stated college dean of Athletics, Ladd Taylor.
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Born in Renaix, Belguim, in 1966 to Raymond and Brenda Mills, Buddy moved to the U.S. with his parents in 1968 and to Mississippi in 1973.? Diagnosed with cerebral palsy not long after birth, Mills has not let his disability stop his love of athletics.? His sister, Tanya Mills, says her brother ?quickly became addicted to Gulf Coast sports.? Anywhere from Mobile to New Orleans, Buddy sees people who will come up and chat.?

Information source: Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.
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