Hurricane Kicks Major Raider "Bootay"...

Last night was the first game of the Golden Hurricane football season at ASU against the Nettleton Raiders, our crosstown rivals and it was an exciting game to say the least. The players were awesome in offense and defense. As the Nettleton coach was quoted, "They just kicked our butt, basically." Can't say it any better than that. :-) You will have a great time watching them for the Homecoming game in October. Go here to read the article by the Jonesboro Sun. Pssst...by the way, SEND IN YOUR MONEY!!!!!!!!

Cooksey-Johns Field Receiving Makeover

JHS Football will have a new coach AND a new football field when we have our twenty-year reunion on JHS Homecoming, October 10. Read this article in the Sun to hear all the changes that will be made—just in time for our reunion! Or watch this video that was on the KAIT8 news:

A crosstown rival becomes a Hurricane head coach

JHS just named Jo Beth Mathis as its new head volleyball coach. Then named Jo Beth Carmack, she was the star of Nettleton's Class AAA state champion volleyball team that, regrettably, beat our Class AAAA state champ Hurricane for the Overall state title in the fall of our senior year. (The small inset black and white photo of Blair Huckabee playing volleyball in her bio entry below is from that match at the then-very new ASU Convocation Center.) I actually got to know Jo Beth some years later, in the late 1990s, when she was the coach at Lyon College and I was working at the Batesville Daily Guard newspaper. Twenty years after triumphing over JHS, she will be leading the Hurricane on the court starting next season.

Virtual Golden Times

I just found this on the Jonesboro High School page thru the Jonesboro Public School website. The Golden Times is now on the internet. Stop by and see what's currently going on at JHS almost 20 years since we graduated!

JHS Names New Football Coach

JHS has just named Randy Coleman (JHS Class of 1992) as Jonesboro's new head football coach. Coach Coleman comes to JHS after four seasons as Valley View's head coach. Coleman also has ties to our graduating class. His brother Rusty Coleman graduated with us in 1988. Read the whole article here.

Coach Barry Pruitt Celebrates Win No. 500!

Speaking of Coach Barry Pruitt and the Jonesboro Hurricane basketball team back in the day—I had to post this current bit of information on the current JHS team and Coach Pruitt's 500th victory! Here's another story about the best Seven Under The Sun. Congratulations Coach Pruitt!

Devazier Steps Down

Here's an update on Hurricane football for people that are out-of-town. Coach Jim Devazier has stepped down as the head football coach at Jonesboro High School. A new coach has not been named. More information on this here.

JHS Receives Honor from Newsweek...

Your alma mater, Jonesboro High School was recently named in the "top 5% of some 27,000 high schools in the country" according to Newsweek magazine. For the full story check it out here.