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PANTHER PRIDE
BSC senior Jamal Watkins isn’t planning on
resting on his laurels in 2017-18.
Watkins picked up his second NCAA
Division III national title in May when he won
the 100-meter dash in a stadium and personal
record time of 10.34 at the SPIRE Institute in
Geneva, Ohio. Combined with his 60-meter
indoor national title, he’s BSC’s first indoor/
outdoor national champion since former
Panther Tiarra Goode in 2012.
He’s ’Southern’s rst men’s track and eld
student-athlete to win two national titles and
the rst men’s indoor national champion.
He’s also a three-time NCAA Division III All-
American for the 2017 indoor and outdoor
track seasons and plays on the Panther football
team.
Now Watkins, a business major from
McDonough, Ga., who wants to be an
executive chef, is focused on winning the
national 200-meter and 4x100 relay before he
graduates this spring.
“I’ll have to really work on my endurance
though,” Watkins said. “It’s going to have to be
a year-round effort with me being a dual-sport
athlete.”
No slowing down for
national champ
BSC’s athletics website gets new look
The BSC athletics website will relaunch with a new design this September
at
www.bscsports.net.
The new site will feature more photo galleries with direct links to team
social media accounts as well as BSC academics and student life information.
It will continue to provide up-to-date schedules, game stories, and stats for
BSC athletics, including detailed information on its programs and student-
athletes.
“The site as a whole really needed to be more modern, user-friendly, and
fresh, just something that was more with the times,” said Jennifer Jones,
the assistant athletics director for media relations, who helped oversee
the redesign. “There are also some new capabilities that will allow us to
implement and use our videos and social media in more effective ways.”