{"id":1870,"date":"2025-04-23T14:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T19:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T16:01:53","slug":"jcccs-athletic-director-paves-a-path-towards-greatness-for-jccc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2025\/04\/23\/jcccs-athletic-director-paves-a-path-towards-greatness-for-jccc\/","title":{"rendered":"JCCC’s Athletic Director Paves A Path Towards Greatness For JCCC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Head Women’s Basketball Coach Ben Conrad and Athletic Director Tony Tompkins. (Photo by: Audrey Hook)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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JCCC athletics is a highly respected and well-rewarded program. A program that can\u2019t be run by just anybody. It requires someone who is knowledgeable, dedicated, driven, and not afraid to make tough decisions. After only three years, our athletic director, Tony Tompkins has already proven himself to be that someone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been a great three years so far. We have made some great strides so far, but there is always opportunity for improvement,\u201d Tompkins said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is with this attitude that JCCC has seen great success under Tompkins\u2019 leadership, and will continue seeing success in the coming years. In his first year alone, four of seven of JCCC\u2019s teams ended their season in the top 10 nationally. He has also helped produce 13 All-Americans, 28 All-Region performers, and 45 All-KJCCC selections. Despite all these incredible achievements, Tompkins has a few that stand out to him the most.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBeing able to hand the National Championship trophy to our women\u2019s basketball team was pretty special,\u201d Tompkins said. \u201cBeing able to watch our teams compete at the National Tournament and represent JCCC on the national stage always makes me proud.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After such an incredible three years, there is no doubt that Tompkins will continue to point our teams in the direction of success. His leadership and devotion to excellence both on and off the field stands to break new records and inspire the next generation of student athletes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBeing at JCCC has truly been a blessing and I am thankful for the relationships I have developed here,\u201d Tompkins said. \u201cThis is where I want to be.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cBeing at JCCC has truly been a blessing and I am thankful for the relationships I have developed here,\u201d Tompkins said. \u201cThis is where I want to be.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1008,"featured_media":1894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[251],"ppma_author":[126],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-tony-tompkins"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Seth Lampton","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/slampto1\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/04\/Tony-Tompkins.jpg","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/slampto1\/","display_name":"Seth Lampton"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Featured<\/a>","Sports<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Featured<\/span>","Sports<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Tony Tompkins<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Tony Tompkins<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 1 year ago","modified":"Updated 1 year ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on April 23, 2025","modified":"Updated on April 25, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on April 23, 2025 2:14 pm","modified":"Updated on April 25, 2025 11:01 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":126,"user_id":1008,"is_guest":0,"slug":"slampto1","display_name":"Seth Lampton","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f2e586f19d0db2ca6e0f54eba249df3470c40ec567565bda6e765754ffc14994?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Seth","last_name":"Lampton","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2025\/04\/Tony-Tompkins.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}