Mary Kate Smith is a name that many Mississippians remember from her high school days. Smith played soccer and football for the South Jones Braves during her high school days. Starting her career as a soccer star for the Braves, Smith decided to give football a chance after his junior year in high school. Smith officially signed with the Ole Miss soccer team on Wednesday, January 18th. "It's awesome," Smith added when asked about her signing with the University of Mississippi. "I have kind of always dreamed of this since I was a little girl, going to play at Ole Miss.” Making the decision to sign with the Rebels was an easy one for Smith, whose parents are both supporters of the Rebels. Mary Kate’s father, Dr. Jesse Smith is a graduate …show more content…
of the University of Mississippi. "My dad graduated from Ole Miss, so we have always been big Rebel fans," Smith said. "It's an SEC school, a big school, and to make that (dream) finally come true is great." Smith gained notoriety by playing placekicker for the South Jones Braves during her senior year in high school.
After graduating high school, she attended the University of Southern Mississippi for a year before transferring to Jones County Junior College. "It's been a great recruitment experience and a great experience here at Jones." She was named as an honorable mention on the NJCAA All-American team this season. In her one season at Jones County, Smith scored 21 goals, 18 assists, and a total of 60 points for the Bobcats. Her statistics ranked 15th in the nation and 2nd in the Mississippi Association of Community & Junior Colleges and Region 23. The Bobcats were ranked 11th in the nation and finished the regular season 15-2. Smith was voted to the MACJC All-Star game and won the most valuable player award after scoring two goals and leading the South team to a 5-0 win over the North. JCJC’s Lady’s soccer coach Dolores Deasley has some high praise for the new Rebel. "We are delighted for Mary Kate to have this opportunity," said Deasley. "I can't think of anyone more deserving. She is every coach's dream and always has been since I've known her.” Deasley has been coaching Smith since she was in youth soccer leagues. Her former coach believes that she will do very well at the University of Mississippi. "She is not only talented, but works hard, is committed, dedicated to the sport and above all, she is a team player and always manages to put the team first. She will be
missed around here, that's for sure." While she is excited to begin her new career at the University of Mississippi, Smith reflects back on her time at JCJC with a positive outlook. "This is one of the best years I've had," she said. "I am so glad I came back to Jones and came home. I got to play for a great team and a great coach and I'm so glad about that. I will never regret that. I am very excited that I came here and I had a great time, a great experience and made a lot of great memories." The Ole Miss soccer team begins practice this Spring and will feature Smith on the team in the upcoming season. She begins classes at the University in the Spring semester.
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
She led the team to a Conference championship and a State Championship. As a Senior she was the #1 player in the nation, averaged a triple double with 31 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists. For the second consecutive year in history, she led the team to a state championship and led the nation in scoring. All four years in high school she was selected to be on the all-state team, all-region team, and all-conference team. During the summers of her High School years she would continue practicing and playing for an AAU team.
Mary Eugenia Surratt, née Jenkins, was born to Samuel Isaac Jenkins and his wife near Waterloo, Maryland. After her father died when she was young, her mother and older siblings kept the family and the farm together. After attending a Catholic girls’ school for a few years, she met and married John Surratt at age fifteen. They had three children: Isaac, John, and Anna. After a fire at their first farm, John Surratt Sr. began jumping from occupation to occupation.
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
to throw the ball around and heads began to turn. The Southern Miss coaches stopped and took
On February 20, 1676, Mary and her three children were taken captive in their home during a raid of the Native Americans uprising known as King Philip’s War along with 23 other people. Her children were the ages 14, 10 and 6. Sarah was 6; she died in captivity due to her wounds. She also lost her sister, brother-in-law, nieces and nephews. Of the 23 people who were captured in the raid, thirteen of them were Rowlandson family members.
refused to play. When she became a senior, she earned top player in the country. Lisa Leslie had a very successful high school career, but it was only the beginning of a long road ahead.
An influential American printmaker and painter as she was known for impressionist style in the 1880s, which reflected her ideas of the modern women and created artwork that displayed the maternal embrace between women and children; Mary Cassatt was truly the renowned artist in the 19th century. Cassatt exhibited her work regularly in Pennsylvania where she was born and raised in 1844. However, she spent most of her life in France where she was discovered by her mentor Edgar Degas who was the very person that gave her the opportunity that soon made one of the only American female Impressionist in Paris. An exhibition of Japanese woodblock Cassatt attends in Paris inspired her as she took upon creating a piece called, “Maternal Caress” (1890-91), a print of mother captured in a tender moment where she caress her child in an experimental dry-point etching by the same artist who never bared a child her entire life. Cassatt began to specialize in the portrayal of children with mother and was considered to be one of the greatest interpreters in the late 1800s.
Mary Bryant was in the group of the first convicts (and the only female convict) to ever escape from the Australian shores. Mary escaped from a penal colony which often is a remote place to escape from and is a place for prisoners to be separated. The fact that Bryant escaped from Australia suggests that she was a very courageous person, this was a trait most convicts seemed to loose once they were sentenced to transportation. This made her unique using the convicts.
At the time of Nicholas' resignation she was the third coach within two months to resign from coaching girls basketball in the King Co Conference alone. Both of the other coaches cited parents as their main reason for leaving.
When high school ended in 1986 Deanna attended Poparville Mississippi Community College on a basketball scholarship. After attending school there for a few years Deanna transferred to the University of Southern Mississippi. There she studied to complete her bachelor’s degree in exercise science.
Mary was born with the name Mary Brave Bird. She was a Sioux from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. She belonged to the "Burned Thigh," the Brule Tribe, the Sicangu. The Brules are part of the Seven Sacred Campfires, the seven tribes of the Western Sioux known collectively as the Lakota. The Brule rode horses and were great warriors. Between 1870 and 1880 all Sioux were driven into reservations, fenced in and forced to give up everything. Her family settled in on the reservation in a small place called He-Dog. Her grandpa was a He-Dog and told about the Wounded Knee massacre. Almost three hundred Sioux men, women, and children were killed by white soldiers. Mary was called a iyeska, a breed which the white kids called her. She had white peoples blood in her. Her face was very Indian, but her skin was light. She hated being "white" and loved the summer because she would tan and make her look more Indian. She had a husband from the Crow Dogs which were full-bloods. They were the Sioux of the Sioux. Her people had very strong family ties and everyone cared for everyone. Still even though the white man has ruined their close family ties they have many traditions which keep the intermediate family closely tied together. The whites however completely destroyed the tiyospaye, which is the extended family like the grandparents, uncles and aunts, in-laws and cousins. The government tore the tiyospaye apart and forced the Sioux into the kind of relationship now called the nuclear family. Those who refused to be ruined by the government were pushed back in the country and into isolation and starvation. Her father, Bill Moore, was only part Indian and mostly white. He left almost immediately after Mary was born becaus...
Her professional football experience goes back 14 years, mostly with the Da;;as Diamonds; however, she is also a former rugby player at Boston College and was the first women to play a non-kicking position in a men’s pro league - as a running back for the Texas Revolution of Indoor Football League.
I write to offer my unconditional endorsement of Blakely Byrd as a Triple-Impact Competitor. I have known Blakely for 13 years and have served as her classmate, friend, and teammate on both our club and high school teams. If there is one thing I can say about Blakely, it is that she always embraces challenges. Whether it is being the first to accept the invitation to take a penalty kick or the last person to leave the field after practice, she never stops working and always does it with joy. My father nicknamed Blakely "Flash" because of her lightning speed and her self-confidence and determination to uplift and inspire everyone else around her. To me, Blakely epitomizes the concept of leading by example. No matter how tough our opponent is,
Mary Bell was born in the May of 1957 to the seventeen year old prostitute, Betty Bell. On the 25th of May, 1968, Mary’s first victim’s, Martin Brown’s, body is found in a derelict house. On the 27th of May 1968, notes confessing to the murder of Martin are found in a vandalized nursery. On the 31st of July, 1968, Brian Howe is killed by Mary. In August of 1968, police charge Mary Bell and Norma Bell with the murders of Martin and Brian. On the 17th of December, 1968, the court of Newcastle convicts Mary Bell of manslaughter of Martin and Brian. Norma Bell is acquitted.