JACKSON, Miss. | The Jackson State College Division of Athletics and Vice President & Director of Athletics Ashley Robinson introduced the return of Hakim McClellan because the Deputy Athletic Director on Monday afternoon. McClellan returns to Jackson State College after a two-year stint because the Athletic Director at Mississippi Valley State the place he oversaw a number of facility upgrades together with a brand new videoboard at Rice-Totten Stadium most lately and a brand new area turf challenge. He additionally commissioned a brand new brand for the athletic division in June 2024.
Beneath McClellan’s management, a number of important initiatives and partnerships had been realized at MVSU, together with a partnership with Kimbrough Trucking, a Black-owned enterprise in Indianola, Mississippi, ensuing within the donation of an 18-wheeler truck, upgraded the tennis courts, up to date the observe, enhanced the softball deck, upgraded the load room, and put in new computer systems within the athletics tutorial lab. McClellan additionally initiated a stole ceremony for graduating student-athletes, created a student-athlete lounge, elevated the Commencement Success Charge (GSR), improved Educational Progress Charges (APR), achieved the best GPA in 5 years throughout all athletics, hung basketball championship banners, developed an app for college athletics, elevated MVSU’s athletic social media presence, and launched Athletics Giving Tuesday. This would be the second stint for McClellan at Jackson State College after he initially joined the Division of Athletics in July of 2018 and assumed the Affiliate Athletic Director for Compliance function. McClellan got here from Prairie View A&M and labored because the Athletic Educational Advisor for the boys’s baseball, ladies’s basketball, soccer, and observe & area groups. In July of 2016, he was named PVAMU’s first Certification Officer within the Workplace of the Registrar. He assumed his new function Monday afternoon.
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