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AT ECJC
Rives Selected
Basketball Coach
East Centrll Junior
College has announced
the apointment of Coach
Steve Rives as head
men's basketball coach
at the College. Coach
Rives has been head bas–
ketball coach at Jackson
Prep for
the
past six
years. Prior to thar he
coached at McCluer and
Hanging Moss in Jack–
son. His overall won-loss
record as basketball
' coach stands at 302-34.
Rives Is a graduate of
Wingfield High School in
Jackson
where he
won
the Danforth Award,
made
the national honor
society Mu Alpha Theta,
and was
selected
Mr.
Senior Class.
In addition
he
was
sel£>cted for the all state
team In both basketball
and baseball while at
Wingfield. At Hinds Jun–
Ior College
he
played
basketball and served as
prec;ldent of BSU. He
h'llds both
the
Bache–
to • and Master's
Degrees from :vtissis–
slppi College where he
was the leading basket–
ball scorer and was
named outstanding col–
lege
athlete.
In addition to having
won almost 90 percent of
all games coached over
a ten year
career,
Rives
has been recognized as
coach of the year six
times, has . won eight
South AAA Academy
Championships, five
State Championships In
the same classification
and four overall academy
championships includ–
ing three In succession.
He was honored in 1981
by the Babe McCarth}
Tipoff Club of Missis–
sippi State University as
the Mississippi High
School Coach of the
Year.
Coach Rives a nd his
wife Sue have two
daughters, Sarah and
Jenni.
They will move to
the East Central campus
during the summer.
SCOTT COUNTY TIMES
Wed~esdav.
June
16,
1982
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