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The University of Arkansas at Monticello Athletics Department is encouraging fans attending Thursday night’s season-opening football game to wear green clothing in support of the Boll Weevils as they take on the West Alabama Tigers.

Kickoff is set for 7:05 p.m. at Willis “Convoy” Leslie Cotton Boll Stadium. The game is being featured on the Gulf South Conference TV Game of the Week package.

UAM students attending the game will be given a free “I Bleed Green” t-shirt upon arrival by showing their UAM identification card. With the GSC-TV crew in Monticello, UAM is moving the student section to the visitor’s side grandstands so the students will be exposed to main television cameras. In addition, prizes will be given out at random every quarter.

According to a press release from UAPB, the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff Department of Athletics has announced the hiring of Carlos James to the position of head baseball coach.

James has been UAM’s baseball coach for two seasons.

James is a Pine Bluff native..

A walk-on who became the most prolific passer in the history of collegiate football in Arkansas and a team of overachievers who won the only men’s basketball title in school history highlight the 2010 induction class for the University of Arkansas at Monticello Sports Hall of Fame.

Record-setting quarterback Kevin McCarn and the 1956 Arkansas Intercollegiate Conference champion Boll Weevil basketball team will be inducted at a ceremony on the UAM campus October 14. They will be joined by All-American wide receiver Anthony Giovingo, multiple All-American sprinter Roger Franklin, the late Boyd Miller, a basketball standout in the late 1940s, and the late Quentious Crews, an All-American end and later head football coach.

The Hall of Fame induction banquet will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Green Room of the John F. Gibson University Center. Tickets are $30 and may be purchased by calling Jim Brewer at (870) 460-1274 or Reginald Glover at (870) 460-1028. A reception, which is open to anyone attending the banquet, will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the home of UAM Chancellor Jack Lassiter and his wife, Judy. (more…)

University of Arkansas at Monticello Athletics Director Chris Ratcliff has announced the hiring of Amy Fenolia as the institution’s NCAA Compliance Officer. Fenolia also serves as an admissions specialist at UAM.

Fenolia comes to UAM after spending almost three years holding various positions at Valdosta State University. She began her athletics career in August of 2005 as a graduate assistant for athletics administration at VSU, a position she held through May of 2007 before becoming the school’s director of ticketing and game operations. (more…)

Senior wide receiver Jywin Ceasar and senior linebacker Carlton Johnson have been selected to the 2010 D2Proday.com Preseason All-America 3rd Team.

Ceaser and Johnson are also on the Consensus Draft Services Preseason All-America list as honorable mentions, and both were selected to the 2010 Preseason All-Gulf South Conference team. (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello football team officially began on-field preparation for the upcoming 2010 season on Thursday with a morning practice.  The team will conduct walk-through drills this afternoon before repeating Thursday’s schedule on Friday.  Including Thursday’s schedule, there are 26 practices before UAM opens its season on Thursday, September 2 at home against West Alabama. A photo gallery with pictures of Thursday’s practice can be found at the official UAM Athletics facebook page:   http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=247304&id=231135571141

Former University of Arkansas at Monticello men’s basketball players Billy McDaniel and Nate Newell were recently selected to the Gulf South Conference All-Decade Team. McDaniel made the first team, while Newell made the second team.

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The University of Arkansas at Monticello football team has been selected to finish eighth in the Gulf South Conference in the 2010 season, announced Monday by the league office. North Alabama is the favorite to win the league.

UAM received one second place vote, one third place vote, two sixth place votes, four seventh place votes, one ninth place vote and one 10th place vote for a total of 46 points, just one point behind seventh place prediction, Henderson State. (more…)

University of Arkansas at Monticello volleyball coach Nicole Smith has announced the addition of eight players for the upcoming 2010 season.

Smith, the 2009 GSC-West Coach of the Year, has signed five high school seniors to go along with two NCAA Division I transfers and a transfer from Lee College in Texas.

“After losing a great group of seniors last year, I am very excited with this group to not only pick up where we left off last year, but also build up the great nucleus we have with our current players,“ said Smith. “All of these young ladies are very hardworking and love the game… All of our freshmen are going to be expected to step in and contribute right away, and the transfers will provide a good balance of experience with our upperclassmen.” (more…)

University of Arkansas at Monticello baseball coach Carlos James has announced the signing of 11 transfers from the NCAA Division I, NAIA and junior college levels to join the team for the 2011 season.

“I am very excited and proud of the recruiting class the Coach Marc MacMillan and I have put together for the 2010-11 school year,” said James. “We believe these student-athletes will usher UAM baseball into the next stage of building a championship program.” (more…)

Season tickets are now on sale in the UAM Department of Athletics. Individual reserved seating season tickets for each event are available, and an All-Sports season ticket is also available. (more…)

The chief executive officers of nine universities in Arkansas and Oklahoma announced on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, that they intend to apply to the National Collegiate Athletic Association for permission to create a new NCAA Division II conference.

The members of the proposed new conference will be the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Arkansas Tech University, East Central University, Harding University, Henderson State University, Ouachita Baptist University, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Southern Arkansas University and Southwestern Oklahoma State University. (more…)

Alumni and friends of the University of Arkansas at Monticello are invited to UAM Family Night with the Arkansas Travelers at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock on July 13.

The Travs’ game with the Frisco Roughriders begins at 7 p.m. A picnic for UAM alumni and friends will begin at 6:00. Tickets are $15 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. Tickets include game admission, all-you-can-eat hamburgers, hot dogs and soft drinks.

Advance reservations are required by no later than June 25. To reserve tickets, contact the UAM Office of Advancement at (800) 467-8148 or (870) 460-1028.

The University of Arkansas at Monticello football team has earned four honorable mentions to the 2010 Consensus Draft Services Preseason All-America teams. 

The four from UAM to earn the honors include senior quarterback Scott Buisson, senior wide receiver Jywin Ceaser, senior linebacker Carlton Johnson and junior punter Derek Jambon. (more…)

MONTICELLO – The University of Arkansas at Monticello recently released its Chancellor’s List and Dean’s List for the spring semester that included 35 UAM student-athletes.

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The 2010 University of Arkansas at Monticello football schedule features three Gulf South Conference TV games of the week with two of those games to be held at Convoy-Leslie Cotton Boll Stadium.

The 2010 Boll Weevils are set to open the season on Thursday, September 2 at 7:05 p.m. at home against West Alabama for the first GSC-TV game of the year. The contest will be considered a non-conference game despite both teams being a member of the GSC. That week, UAM will also be hosting its “100 Year Celebration.”

The team will then take its first of seven road trips of the season on Saturday, September 11 to Baton Rouge, La. to take on Southern University of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (NCAA Division I-FCS). Southern replaces Arkansas-Pine Bluff, which bought out of the third year of a three-year contract.

UAM stays on the road to open GSC play with Ouachita Baptist in Arkadelphia on Saturday, September 18 at 7 p.m. at A.U. Williams Field on the OBU campus.

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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Behind sophomore pitcher Kayla Jackson’s two wins in the circle, including her third no-hitter of the season, the 23rd-ranked University of Arkansas at Monticello softball team beat the 12th-ranked Alabama-Huntsville Chargers twice on Monday to advance to this weekend’s NCAA South Super-Region Tournament against host Valdosta State. (more…)

Three players from the University of Arkansas at Monticello softball team and one player from the baseball team have earned spots on the 2010 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District Teams. 

From the 22nd-ranked Cotton Blossoms, sophomore Kayla Jackson and senior Emilie Hobbs earned District 6 First Team honors, while senior teammate Becca Tipton made the second team. With their first team selections, Jackson and Hobbs will automatically be placed on the ballot for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America team. (more…)

Despite going 4-1 over the past week with the only loss coming to 2nd-ranked Valdosta State, the University of Arkansas at Monticello softball team fell to No. 22 in this week’s National Fastpitch Coaches Association Top 25 Poll and No. 5 in the latest batch of the NCAA South Region Rankings. 

The Cotton Blossoms (50-10) debuted at No. 24 in the NFCA poll on April 7, then spent two weeks at No. 23 before moving up to No. 18 last week. The team is currently tied with No. 8 Lenoir-Rhyne (50-7) for the nation’s highest win total. (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello football coaching staff is now accepting registration forms for its annual 4-man scramble, to be held this year on May 8 at the Monticello Country Club.

Registration fees are $300 per team ($75 per person).

There are also needs for hole sponsors and chip-off sponsors. Prize donations are also being accepted.

For more information, contact assistant coach Kyle Manley at (870) 460-1217

The 18th-ranked University of Arkansas at Monticello softball team was defeated 7-1 by the 2nd-ranked Valdosta State Lady Blazers in the GSC Championship Tournament winner’s bracket.

The University of Arkansas at Monticello hosted the Weevil Stampede this past weekend. The rodeo was the final of the 2009-2010 year for the Ozark Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association.

UAM’s men’s team finished the event seventh with 100 points, while the women’s team finished second with 260 points.

For the season, UAM’s women team placed fifth overall. Senior Lana Chastain won the Women’s All-Around with 1,095 points. Visit the NIRA Ozark Region page for complete final results of this season.

Full team and individual results are listed below.

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Mike Newell has resigned his position of head men’s basketball coach at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, effective June 25. (more…)

Students from the Ozark Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association competed in the UAM Boll Weevil Stampede tonight, Thursday 22. Below are the results of the first round events. Events will continue tomorrow and Saturday, both at 7:30 PM. Cost for admission is $8 for adults, $5 for children 6-12 and UAM students with an ID card. Children under 5 get in for free.

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The University of Arkansas at Monticello rodeo team will host the annual Boll Weevil Stampede at the Drew County Fairgrounds April 22 through the 24th.

The event will showcase teams from the Ozark Region of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association as they compete in various rodeo events. Eleven teams from seven states will be competing.

The events will begin at 7:30pm nightly. Cost is $8 for adults, $5 for children 6-12 or for UAM students with their student ID. Children under five get in for free.

UAM’s Women’s Team currently sits third and the Men’s Team sits seventh. Cody Mounts is currently ninth place in bareback riding and eleventh in bull riding. Casey Greer is fifth in steer wrestling. Slade Deason and Jacob Rayburn are sitting ninth and tenth respectively in team roping. Colleen Glass is fifteenth in barrel racing. Stephanie Zakrzewski and Chelsey Brock are tenth and eleventh in breakaway roping. Lana Chastain sits second in goat tying. Zakrzewski also sits seventh in goat tying.

The 2009-10 UAM Rodeo Team with Coach Jolyn Wells

Junior Camron Hurst has been selected to the 2010 All-Gulf South Conference 2nd Team, becoming the first golfer in UAM history to earn all-conference honors. 

Hurst (Prattsville, Ark.) played in five events in the 2010 season, including the GSC Championship Tournament. He won the Mulerider Invitational with scores of 75 and 74, and placed third in the Boll Weevil Invitational with scores of 75 and 78. Hurst started the season with a 16th place finish at the Doyle Wallace Classic with scores of 77 in each round.

Over the past two weeks, Hurst placed 35th out of 64 participants at the Natural State Golf Classic in Heber Springs, Ark. and 24th out of 59 at this past week’s GSC Championship in Hot Springs, Ark.

The University of Arkansas at Monticello softball team remained No. 23 in this week’s National Fastpitch Coaches Association Top 25 Poll and stayed No. 4 in the NCAA South Region Rankings.

The Cotton Blossoms (44-9, 21-5 GSC) kept a firm grasp on last week’s rankings after winning three of four last weekend on the road against Henderson State and securing the program’s seventh GSC-West title. UAM will play the GSC-East No. 4 seed in the opening round of next weekend’s conference championship tournament in Southaven, Miss.  (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello baseball team suffered an 18-8 loss to Harding on “Senior Day” to lose the series 2-1. 

The Bisons (23-23, 7-10 GSC) struck first on an RBI infield single by Anthony Guglielmi in the top of the first inning. (more…)

Sophomore pitcher Kayla Jackson threw a perfect game in an 8-0 win over Henderson State on Sunday to clinch the 2010 Gulf South Conference-West Division Championship and give Head Coach Alvy Early his 500th career win. The Cotton Blossoms won the second game 5-3. 

Jackson’s perfect game is the ninth in school history and first since 2005. It is her second no-hitter of this season and third of her career. The win gave UAM its seventh GSC-West title and moved Early into a group of only three coaches to have won at least 500 games in the GSC. (more…)

The University of Arkansas at Monticello softball team and Henderson State opened their four-game Gulf South Conference series with split decisions on Saturday, started with a 2-1 win for the Lady Reddies and finished with a 5-0 win for the Cotton Blossoms.

UAM (42-9, 19-5 GSC) entered the double-header ranked first in the GSC in team batting average, but HSU starter Melissa Decker held the Blossoms to only four hits, including UAM’s only run-production – a solo homerun by freshman Faith Lund in the top of the seventh inning.

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The University of Arkansas at Monticello baseball team and Harding University combined to total 62 hits and 11 homeruns in Saturday’s Gulf South Conference double-header. Harding won the first game 23-14, followed by a 10-9 win for UAM in the nightcap. 

With the win in the second game, UAM (20-22, 4-12 GSC) reached the 20-win mark for the first time since going 25-20 in the 2006 season.

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Senior Gailbriel Jenkins, pictured with Coach Michael Goad and her mom Gail Jenkins, signs letter of intent to play basketball with UAM.

UAM Chancellor and Mrs. Jack Lassiter hosted a dinner at their home last week for the university’s top scholar-athletes, those who made either the Chancellor’s List or Dean’s List during the 2009 fall semester. The Chancellor’s List requires a 4.0 grade point average on at least 12 semester hours of course work above the 1000 level while the Dean’s List Requires a grade point of 3.5 or better. (more…)

Rodeo cowboys and cowgirls from colleges and universities in eight states will compete at the 2010 Boll Weevil Stampede hosted by the University of Arkansas at Monticello April 22-24.

Competition begins each evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Drew County Fairgrounds. Admission is $8 for adults, $5 for UAM students with I.D. and children ages 6-12, and free for children 5 and under.

Collegiate rodeo teams expected to participate include UAM, Arkansas State, East Mississippi Community College, Lewis and Clark College, Michigan State, Missouri State, Mississippi State, Murray State, Missouri Valley, North Arkansas College, Northwest Mississippi Community College, Southern Arkansas, Southeast Missouri State, Troy, Tennessee-Martin, and West Alabama.

For more information, contact Jolyn Wells, UAM rodeo coach, at (870) 460-1994.

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