Blue Mountain College held a press conference on June 27th to announce their new head softball coach, Adam Kirkpatrick.
Kirkpatrick was an assistant at SEC member Missouri last year.
Kirkpatrick is a Pleasant Grove, Ala. native, that is working on his M.Div. from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
“It has been a lifelong dream to coach in a setting where I can teach the sport, inspire others to reach their goals and to do so in a Christian environment,” Kirkpatrick said
During his coaching career , Kirkpatrick has seen players of his earn multiple collegiate All-American selections along with numerous All-Conference selections.
Kirkpatrick said he plans to continue to recruit high moral standing student athletes to BMC.
The new coach will inherit a pair of such players in Tippah County natives Chey Eaton and Lia Rogers from Walnut.
Jon Ross Myers is the executive editor and publisher of the Mississippi News Network, Mississippi's largest digital only media company. He can be reached at editor@tippahnews.com
