JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS - Key Persons
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- Assistant Athletic Director for Business and Travel
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- Associate Vice President & Senior Woman Administrator
Alyse Wells-Kilbert joined Jackson State Athletics in July of 2018 and serves as the Associate Athletic Director for Fiscal Management. She was promoted to Associate Vice President in July of 2019.
In her role, Wells-Kilbert oversees the day-to-day operations of the athletics department which includes fiscal management affairs such as business, ticketing, stadium operations, sports oversight and sports medicine for Jackson State Athletics.
She also chairs the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) SWA's Committee. In March of 2023, she was appointed to the NCAA Women's Basketball Rules Committee for a four-year term effective September 2023.
Prior to JSU, she was the Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator and Interim Athletic Director at the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff. Previously, Wells-Kilbert served in several administrative roles and was the head volleyball coach at Mississippi Valley State.
Before MVSU, she led women's basketball and softball programs at Belhaven University and led her Lady Blazers' basketball team to a 24-7 record in her final year (2000-01). Wells-Kilbert served as an assistant athletic director and was elevated to associate athletic director.
Wells-Kilbert has more than 28 years of coaching and athletics administrative experience on the collegiate level. She also served as a member of the SWAC Task Force for more than eight years.
In August of 2023, she was honored as a Top Distinguished Business Woman in the state of Mississippi by the Mississippi Business Journal.
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- Academic Advisor ( Football, Tennis, Cheer )
- Member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc
Alyssa Price joins the JSU athletics department after working as the assistant academic advisor for football at the University of Alabama. She also has experience in tutorial services and programming.
Alyssa graduated from the University of Alabama in 2021 with a Bachelors in Communications and Information Sciences, majoring in Creative Media and Marketing. She is currently working on her Masters in Higher Education Administration at Alabama.
Alyssa is also a member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. and currently advises the chapter at Stillman College. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her family, sisters, and dog, Luna. Alyssa also enjoys listening to true crime podcasts and binge-watching shows on Netflix.
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- Assistant Athletic Director of Ticketing Operations
Amber Pack joined the Jackson State athletics staff in July 2021 as Director of Ticket of Operations.
The Brandon, Mississippi native earned her bachelor's degree at the the University of Southern Mississippi (2020) in Criminal Justice. She is a member of The National Association of Athletic Ticket Sales & Operations (NAATSO).
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- Compliance Coordinator
- Title / Compliance Coordinator
Ashley Simmons joined the Jackson State athletics staff in February of 2022 as the Compliance Coordinator.
Ashley previously worked at Mississippi College where she provided Athletic Training services to the volleyball, cross country, track and field and tennis teams.
Ashley is a native of Gretna, Louisiana. She earned a bachelor's degree in Athletic Training with a minor in health (2020) from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a master's degree in Athletic Administration (2022) from Mississippi College. She is a member of National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA), Women Leaders in College Sports, and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.
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- Vice President & Director of Athletics
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- Title / Video Director
- Video Director
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- Academic Advisor ( Bowling, Soccer, Softball, Volleyball )
Brandon Jackson joins the Jackson State athletics department in January 2022. He will be working with the Football, Volleyball & Soccer programs. As an Athletic Academic Advisor, he provides professional support, academic, personal, and career advising.
Prior to JSU, Jackson competed for Sam Houston State University Football Program. He then transitioned to an administrative role as a Student-Athlete Services Assistant at his alma mater.
Jackson earned his MS in Sport Management at SHSU. He also previously earned a BBA in Human Resources Management and a BBA in Marketing at SHSU.
Brandon Morton was named JSU running backs coach in February 2023 and is in his second year at #TheeILove.
In 2022, as a graduate assistant coaching running backs, he helped RB Sy'veon Wilkerson post the first 1,000-rushing season at JSU since 1999 as the Tigers went undefeated in league play for the second straight year and won their second straight SWAC Championship.
Morton was also a student assistant in strength and conditioning at Charleston Southern (2019) after playing running back at Charleston Southern and San Diego State.
The Beaufort, S.C. native is the son of Alan and Karen Morton and is the youngest of six siblings - older brothers Brian, Alan, Ali, and Anthony, and older sister Alison.
Bryson Abraham was named wide receivers coach at Jackson State in 2023.
Abraham spent the previous three seasons at Texas State. Last season, Ashytn Hawkins posted four 100-yard receiving games in only nine contests while setting a school record for receptions in a game with 13 at Baylor in earning second-team All-Sun Belt honors.
In 2022, Marcell Barbee was named a Third-Team All-Sun Belt Conference selection. Barbee ranked second in the Sun Belt with 10 touchdown catches, and he led the Bobcats with 40 catches and 584 receiving yards.
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- Assistant
- Coach
- Title / Assistant Coach
Chandler Dillard is a former Jackson State University outfielder from Madison, Mississippi. He graduated from Germantown High School in 2016 and went on to play baseball at Copiah-Lincoln Community College from 2016-2018. Dillard transferred to Jackson State University in the fall of 2018 and played three seasons with the Tigers from 2018-2021. He graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science degree.
Dillard was a 3-year starter in the outfield for the Tigers and in 2021 was named SWAC Preseason Player of the Year and Preseason 1st Team All-SWAC by Perfect Game. After the conclusion of the regular season in 2021 he was named to 1st Team All-SWAC.
In the fall of 2021, Dillard became an assistant baseball coach and teacher at Vicksburg High School in Vicksburg, MS. In his first season as assistant coach he helped lead the team to go undefeated in district and earn their first District Championship since 2009. Dillard also helped coach the Vicksburg Gators to the 2nd round of the playoffs.
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- Assistant
- Coach
- Title / Assistant Coach
Chase Campbell joined the Lady Tigers basketball program in the fall of 2021. He comes to Jackson State after serving as the head men's basketball coach at Wiley College in the tenth season of his coaching career.
Prior to Wiley, Campbell spent two seasons at Tuskegee University as an assistant coach. He helped the Tigers finish in the top 10 of the National Collegiate Athletic Association in scoring defense and the top five in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 3-pointers made per game, free throw percentage, field goal percentage and 3-point percentage. Campbell was responsible for scouting, recruiting, managing the budget, game-planning and late game situations.
Before Tuskegee, he spent one season as an assistant coach at Benedict College. His team was second in the conference in scoring defense and fourth in field goal percentage. He helped guide them to the SIAC Semifinals.
Campbell spent three seasons at his alma mater Paine College - serving as interim head coach in 2015-16 - guiding it to the second-best scoring offense in the SIAC. In 2014-15 as an assistant, he helped Paine College to the regular season SIAC title with a 23-6 overall record and 18-3 in conference play. In 11 seasons, Campbell has coached 13 All-Conference athletes including two Players of the Year.
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- Assistant
- Coach
- Title / Assistant Coach
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- Coach
- Head
- Title / Head Coach
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- Assistant Athletic Director for Internal Operations
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- Associate Athletic Director for Internal Operations
Dr. Derek Scott enters his 12 th year at Jackson State University after joining the Tigers in June of 2007 as the Director of Strength and Conditioning.
Dr. Scott serves as the Associate Athletic Director for Internal Operations, a position he has held since January 2012. Apart of his responsibilities include, Program Supervision, Athletic Facilities, Fiscal Management, GameDay Operations, and Management Team.
He is a 1996 graduate of Alabama State University where he earned his undergraduate degree in Educational Psychology.
He also received his Master of Science (M.S.) in Counseling Psychology from Alabama State University in 1998 before earning his highest degree of education in 2013 from Jackson State University with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD in )Educational Leadership.
When Dr. Michael L. Boykins was hired as head bowling coach at Jackson State University in 2014, he embarked on his very first coaching assignment with a goal of helping to uplift the sport by helping to create opportunities for women on the collegiate level. Ten years later, he has taken giant leaps towards accomplishing that goal - and he continues to do so.
With nearly 980 victories to his credit, Boykins has brought a pair of Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) bowling championships to the JSU program, winning SWAC regular season titles in 2015 and 2016. The Tigers also won the program's first league tournament crown in 2016.
"We've awarded over $1 million in scholarships to young ladies at JSU in order to pursue their careers," said Boykins, who is as elated over that statistic as he is over any of his team's accomplishments on the lanes. "Each of the last seven years, we have achieved the coveted GPA mark of 3.7 or 3.8 as a team."
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Boykins is a 1980 graduate of the University of Detroit who later earned a D.P.M. degree from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine in 1984. He did his residency at Southwest Detroit Hospital in 1985 and is certified by the American Council of Certified Podiatric Surgeons.
Boykins has worked at Kirwood Medical in Detroit (1986-88), Michigan Podiatry Centers (1987-97) and the Foot Care Center in Jackson (1997-present). He says his professional goal is to "cultivate the practice of medical and surgical care patients in podiatry," and to "maintain a level of superior competency and knowledge of an ever-growing field of podiatric medicine."
Boykins' goals in the sport of bowling echo those in his medical career field - to maintain a level of superior competency. He has been an avid bowler for over 40 years and has 10 certified perfect games to his credit. He says the ability to coach and be an administrative asset to the sport are what motivates him each day.
A member of the National Coaches League, the United States Bowling Congress (USBC) and The National Bowling Association (TNBA), Boykins served as president of TNBA from 2008 to 2012 following stints as TNBA Media/Communications Director (2009-11) and Jackson Mid-South Senate President (2006-10). He has made presentations to national meetings of both the USBC and the TNBA and he has developed international training programs.
In 2021, Boykins was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the University of Detroit, where he was an All-American fencer. He is married to Vicky M. Boykins, who serves as his assistant bowling coach at Jackson State.
Job Titles:
- Development
- Director of Athletic Development
Dr. Ted Flogaites enters his fifth season at the helm of the Jackson State soccer program, his 23rd season overall, after joining the Tigers in January 2019 after previously serving as the head coach of Arkansas-Pine Bluff in 2018.
In year one with the Lady Tigers he guided the Blue and White to an 8-12 overall record and 7-3 in SWAC play. He guided the Lady Tigers to a a seven game conference winning streak, a six game 650 minute shutout win streak, No. 1 ranking in all of NCAA collegiate soccer in shot on goal percentage, most conference wins in a season since 2016, above .500 winning percentage in conference play since 2015, and more SWAC wins in one season than the last two seasons combined.
Dr. Flogaites was born in New York, New York, and raised in Tenafly, New Jersey, began playing soccer as a child.
"Soccer was a passion of my father's," said Flogaites, who admits his favorite disc jockey is the world renowned Dutch DJ Armin Van Buuren. "As a young kid I always remember being around it and I never felt like I was missing out on anything like other sports such as football or basketball because soccer is truly the sport."
Clearly Flogaites, who is fluent in both English and Greek, is no stranger to the beautiful game. Some of his impressive accolades are listed below:
Professional Highlights
• Conference Coach of the Year: RRAC - 2006 and GPAC - 2010 & 2011
• NSCAA/Adidas Regional Coach of the Year: 2006 & 2010
• Brine NAIA Coach of the Year: 2010
• NSCAA/Mondo NAIA National Coach of the Year: 2010
• Overall Coaching Record: 151-127-16, 151 wins at the collegiate level
• Seven consecutive winning seasons: 105-30-12 (2006-2012)
• Coached two teams to first ever appearance in NAIA National tournament
• National Champion Runner-Up NAIA: 2010
• #2 in All Time Wins at Western Illinois University with 28
• Only coach at Western Illinois University women's soccer program with a win over a Big 10 team
• 15 years collegiate head coaching experience (D1, NAIA, & D3)
• 17 years overall coaching experience
• Named to NSCAA Associate Staff
•Clinician, Instructor of State Level USSF Courses
His most decorated year to date is in 2010 when he was named Brine National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) National Coach of the Year as well as NSCAA/Mondo NAIA National and NSCAA/Adidas Regional Coach of the Year while leading the women's soccer program at Hastings College, a liberal arts college in Hastings, Nebraska. Here he compiled an overall record of 76-21-9 with a total of 52 shutouts in five seasons. Dr. Flogaites coached Hastings to a Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Regular Season Championship and GPAC Tournament Championship in two consecutive seasons: 2010 and 2011.
In 2008 he led Hastings to a trip to the NAIA National Tournament, and in 2010 his team was NAIA National Tournament Runner-Up, falling in the NAIA National Championship Game.
Earlier in the playoff run, the team managed a 3-2 win in penalty kicks (PK's) over Olivet Nazarene University, and as a result, Coach Flogaites led the Lady Broncos to its first win ever in the NAIA National Tournament. The NAIA tourney victory was a first for both Hastings College and the GPAC as a whole.
After his time spent at Hastings, Flogaites became head women's soccer coach at Western Illinois University, where he finished second in all-time wins in program history with 28. In 2012 his team went 13-6-0 overall and 5-3 in conference play which resulted in a Summit League Tournament Semi-Finals appearance. Three of his players at Western Illinois were named first-team All-Summit League while three more players were selected to the Summit League's All-Academic All-League team.
Flogaites received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from the University of California followed by a Master of Science degree from New Jersey City University.
In 2014 he earned his Doctor of Education (EhD) in Sports Management with an emphasis in Sports Marketing from the United States Sports Academy.
In 2022, Flogaites led the Jackson State soccer team to its first SWAC Title in nearly a decade and an NCAA Tournament berth. He was also tabbed SWAC Coach of the Year as the Tigers went 11-8-1 overall and 7-1-1 in conference.
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- Co - Offensive Coordinator / Offensive Line
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- Director of Football Sports Performanc
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- Defensive Coordinator / Defensive Lin
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- Assistant Athletic Director for Academics
Keith Pearson earned Second-Team All-Big South honors after leading the Big South with 71 receptions for 777 yards and three touchdowns. His 71 receptions set a Presbyterian single-season record, and his 777 receiving yards were the second-highest Division I total at the school. Pearson also became the school's eighth Division I player to record 100 career receptions and the seventh DI player to eclipse 1,000 career receiving yards.
In his first season, Abraham had two receivers tie for second among Big South leaders with 52 receptions. DaShawn Davis recorded 557 receiving yards and led the Blue Hose with seven touchdown receptions. Pearson had 565 receiving yards and two TD receptions.
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- Assistant Director Strength and Conditioning
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- Assistant Coach / Recruiting Coordinator
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- Athletics Administrative Assistant
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- Associate Athletic Director for Academics and Complianc
- Compliance
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- Assistant Director of Sports Medicine
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- Assistant AD for Sports Media
- Sports Media
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- Head Athletic Trainer for Fall / Winter / and Spring Sports
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- Coach
- Head
- Title / Head Coach
NBA Champion and Jackson native Mo Williams was named Jackson State University men's basketball coach on March 14, 2022.
In his first season, Williams defied the odds of a predicted seventh-place finish as he led the Tigers to a tie for third place and a berth in the SWAC Tournament semifinals. The Williams era was sparked by a win over SMU during non-conference play en route to a 12-6 conference record.
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- Assistant Head Coach / Tight Ends
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- Assistant Men's and Women 's Tennis Coach
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- Assistant Athletic Director for Fiscal Management
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- Assistant Athletic Director for Broadcasting and Video Services
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- Coach
- Head
- Title / Head Coach
In addition to her coaching duties, Washington has served the JSU Division of Athletics in other capacities. From 2009-11, she served as the assistant athletics director of internal affairs, where she oversaw athletics administrative assistants, secretaries, facilities and athletic trainers. She was a member of the JSU APR Task Force from 2010-2012 and the Jackson State Sports Hall of Fame Selection Committee from 2009-present. She served on the Southwestern Athletic Conference Strategic Planning Committee (2014-present), the AVCA Division I Volleyball Coaches Committee (2011-2016) and the NCAA Division I Regional Selection Committee (2002-2005, 2011-2015).
Washington is a 1977 graduate of Jackson State University with a degree in health and physical education. She served as the Lady Tigers graduate assistant from 1978 to 1980 while earning her master's in health and physical education. During her two seasons with JSU, she helped establish a successful club team. In 1980, she moved to Baton Rouge, La., to serve as the Southern University head volleyball coach for two seasons.
Job Titles:
- Director of Basketball Operations / Media Content
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- Assistant Director, Sports Media
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- Assistant Athletic Director, External Operations & Stadium Management
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- Linebackers / Special Teams Coordinator
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- Administrative Assistant - Stadium