2025 EMCC Football News
Returning for his second season on Buddy Stephens’ East Mississippi Community College football coaching staff, Preston Rice has assumed the Lions’ offensive coordinator responsibilities along with continuing to serve as the team’s quarterbacks coach.
For the debut season of the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference’s 10-game football schedule, East Mississippi Community College’s expanded 2026 gridiron slate will consist of five home games and five road contests.
Five-time national champion East Mississippi Community College will conduct two summer football camps during the month of June on the Scooba campus.
East Mississippi Community College is scheduled to conduct open football tryouts on Thursday, March 26, on the Scooba campus.
East Mississippi Community College’s five-time national championship football program will be hosting the 10th Annual EMCC Football Golf Classic on Friday, May 1st, at Lion Hills in Columbus.
East Mississippi Community College is scheduled to conduct open football tryouts on Wednesday, Feb. 18, on the Scooba campus.
A total of 22 football signees were announced during Wednesday’s National Signing Day by East Mississippi Community College head football coach Buddy Stephens.
Vicksburg native and former Warren Central High School standout Chris Stamps has been hired as an assistant football coach at East Mississippi Community College. The announcement was made this week by EMCC head football coach Buddy Stephens.
East Mississippi Community College running back Gavin Griffin has added to his list of 2025 season accomplishments by being named to this year’s NJCAA Division I Football All-America First Team. The National Junior College Athletic Association announced the organization’s first-team, second-team and honorable-mention football selections on Saturday (Dec. 20).
Austin Roberts, a Georgia native and former teammate of first-year EMCC defensive coordinator Justin Lucas on the Lions’ 2013 national championship team, has been named as an assistant coach on Buddy Stephens’ football coaching staff at East Mississippi Community College.
Aberdeen product and Troy University alum Justin Lucas, a former defensive standout and two-time national champion at East Mississippi Community College, has returned to the Scooba campus to serve as the Lions’ defensive coordinator. The announcement was made this week by EMCC head football coach Buddy Stephens.
East Mississippi Community College running back Gavin Griffin, wide receiver Noreel White and offensive lineman Kison Shepard have been named to the 2025 NJCAA All-Region 23 football team, as announced Wednesday by the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference (MACCC) office.
East Mississippi Community College running back Gavin Griffin has been named the MACCC North Division’s Offensive Player of the Year to highlight the Lions’ 13 selections to the 2025 All-MACCC football teams. Chosen by a panel of the MACCC’s head football coaches, the conference’s first-team, second-team and honorable mention football selections from the league’s North and South Divisions were announced Wednesday by the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference office.
Ninth-ranked East Mississippi Community College’s 2025 football season came to a close with a 45-24 home setback to No. 7 Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College during Saturday afternoon’s MACCC semifinals contest played at Sullivan-Windham Field on the Scooba campus.
Set to make their 15th conference playoff appearance dating back to 2008, the nationally ninth-ranked Lions of East Mississippi Community College will play host to No. 7 Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College during Saturday’s MACCC Football Semifinals on the Scooba campus. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. at EMCC’s Sullivan-Windham Field.
For his dual-threat quarterbacking exploits during East Mississippi Community College’s 50-39 home win over Holmes to close out the regular season last Thursday in Scooba, EMCC freshman Trey Irving III has been named the MACCC Offensive Player of the Week. The announcement was made Tuesday by the Mississippi Association of Community Colleges Conference office.
