PERKINSTON — Cody Myers is taking the next step is his budding coaching career back where it started. Mississippi Gulf Coast named him to run the Athletic Department’s Strength and Conditioning program.
“Community colleges are close to my heart because they gave me a chance,” he said. “It led me to the career I have now. Without college athletics, I probably would never have been a strength and conditioning coach. I’m ready to make the jump and take on the opportunity to be a head coach. I want to showcase my talents on that level.”
Myers brings MACCC and NCAA experience to Perkinston. He started his collegiate playing career in the conference Gulf Coast calls home and arrives after earning multiple degrees at Mississippi College.
Myers was the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Mississippi College for a year after being a graduate assistant there while completing his master’s in athletic administration.
He served as a strength and conditioning coach at Tri County Academy in 2022 while interning on the MC staff. He was a Choctaws intern during and after completing his playing career in Clinton.
Myers was an All-District offensive lineman at Pelahatchie High School and played at East Central Community College. He was a long snapper at the University of Louisiana in 2019 before transferring to Mississippi College, where he was an All-Gulf South Conference First Team member as a special teams utility player.
He graduated from MC with a bachelor’s in kinesiology and was on the Academic All-GSC team. Myers is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Myers is engaged to Emilie Ursin.
Myers will bring passion to the Athletic Performance Facility at Perk.
“They don’t care what you know until they know that you care,” he said. “You hear that a lot, but it’s true. I’m going to bring high energy and intensity every day. They’re going to get the same person every single day. We’re flying around, having a great time, but we’re going to get the work we need to get done in.”
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