Volume 9, Number 2 September 2012
impack Alumni and friends investing, improving and impacting.
Homecoming 2012 events planned
Former Wolfpack Basketball Player Brings Home Gold in Warrior Games
Copiah-Lincoln Community College is planBy Angela Furr ning Homecoming events for Friday and SatAnthony McDaniel was a solid point guard urday, Oct. 19 and 20. Alumni, friends and while playing for the Wolfpack basketball students are welcomed to the campus to reteam during the 2006-2007season. He left Coconnect and enjoy activities. Lin to serve his country in the Marine Corp. Friday Activities One month after he arrived in Afghanistan, Homecoming events begin with a golf McDaniel’s life was changed forever. While tournament at noon sponsored by the baseon a routine clearance patrol as an artilleryball team. The fee is $50 per team and inman in Kajaki, Afghanistan, he identified an cludes cart and green fees, lunch, snacks on improvised explosive device, but before he the course and prizes. For more information, could notify his squad, it detonated. Four contact Keith Case at (601)643-8412. days later, McDaniel regained conscious Members of the first associate degree nursness in Germany, missing both of his legs ing class (Class of ’96) will be honored with and his left hand. a reception beginning at 5 p.m. at the presi While such an injury might send some into a state of self-pity, McDaniel decided not to dent’s home. If you are member of this class concentrate on what he had lost, but to focus instead on the things that he could still do. and have not received an invitation by Oct. 1, “Lying around was never something that crossed my mind,” he said. “I was still please contact the alumni office at 601-643-8313 alive. I knew I had to continue on with my life, and for me, sports is a part of my life.” or by e-mail at danielle.white@colin.edu. McDaniel was sent from Germany to the National Naval Medical Center in BethesSaturday Activities da, Md., where he underwent multiple surgeries, and from there on to Walter Reed General registration for Saturday’s Homecoming Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. While at Walter Reed, McDaniel was will be in the J. M. Ewing Administration Building from introduced to hand cycling, which involves a three-wheeled, hand-pedaled bike. 9:00 until 11 a.m. Guests can also register at the cafeteria The former Gautier High School basketball player was a natural at the sport, and lobby from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. completed the Marine Corp marathon in 2011 before being transferred to Balboa The Sports Hall of Fame inductions and a business meetNaval Hospital in San Diego, Calif., for more rehabilitation. ing of the Athletic Alumni Association are planned for 9:30 While in San Diego, McDaniel organized a wheelchair basketball league. until 11:00 a.m. in Rea Auditorium. Inductees into the Sports He and his teammates competed in exhibition games in the surrounding area, Hall of Fame include Ira Coates, Chris Dunn, Joel Lessley and leading McDaniel to try out for the Warrior Games, a competition created in Victoria Mason. 2010 by the military and the U.S. Olympic Committee as an introduction to The Band and Colette Alumni Chapter will hold its Hall of paralympic sports for injured service members and veterans. Fame induction ceremony and recognize its Outstanding Young McDaniel tried out in both wheelchair basketball and hand cycling events Alumni recipient at 10:00 a.m. in the Fred and Jewett Taylor in the Warrior Trials and took home the silver medal in the 100 and 200-meterChapel. Mary Little Peevey will be inducted into the Hall of dash, beating out over 300 other wounded warriors for a spot on the 50-memFame, and Dr. Sherry Chance Pippen will be recognized as the ber All-Marine Track and Field Team. He was selected as a torchbearer and Outstanding Young Alum. The chapter will also hold its ancompeted in the Warrior Games in Colorado in May 2012 against the best athnual business meeting during that time. letes from the Air Force, Navy, Army and Special Operations, bringing home six The Alumni Association will hold its awards luncheon in gold medals. the Cafeteria in the Henley Building at 11:30. Tickets are $12 This success has led McDaniel to appreciate what he has been through to and may be purchased at the registration tables or the door. become what he is today. “I’ve had so many more opportunities to compete and to Reunion classes, Outstanding Alumni, Sports Hall of do things that I never would have been able to do before I got hurt.” Some of those Fame inductees, Band and Colette Hall of Fame inductee opportunities have included snow skiing, traveling across the country to compete, and Outstanding Young Alumni recipient and Outstand(continued on page 7)
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