JACKSON, Miss., (May 10, 2019) – For the first time in the 16-year history of the C Spire Ferriss Trophy, the award has a two-time winner. Mississippi State centerfielder, Jake Mangum, who won the award as a freshman in 2016, took home the bronze trophy today, awarded annually\ to the most outstanding college baseball player. […]
Players from two nationally-ranked teams dominated the list of finalists announced for the 2019 C Spire Ferriss Trophy, which annually honors the top college baseball player in Mississippi. Chosen by Major League Baseball scouts and college baseball coaches in Mississippi, the five finalists include two players each from Mississippi State and Ole Miss and one […]
JACKSON, Miss., (March 11, 2019) – Mississippi State players have won both the C Spire Gillom Trophy which goes to the state’s most outstanding female basketball player and the C Spire Howell Trophy emblematic of the most outstanding male basketball player. For the men, Quinndary Weatherspoon made it two in a row after capturing the […]
Players from Mississippi State’s men’s and women’s basketball programs received four of the six finalist nominations for the 2019 C Spire Howell and Gillom Trophies, which are awarded annually to the best male and female college basketball players in the Magnolia state. All three of the women’s nominees are from Mississippi State’s No.5 nationally ranked […]
Jackson, MISS – February 14, 2019 –C Spire and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame (MSHOF) have announced the guest speakers for the upcoming awards luncheons later this spring honoring the 2019 top college basketball and baseball players in the Magnolia State. The C Spire Gillom and the C Spire Howell Trophy presentations will be on […]
Jackson, MS: Jeffery Simmons, a junior defensive tackle, is the winner of the C Spire Conerly Trophy for 2018. Simmons is the twenty-third winner of the award which has been given each year since 1996. A pre-season All-American, Simmons has lived up to his hype. He made a total of 59 tackles on the season […]
Jackson, MS – The ten nominees for the 23rd annual C Spire Conerly Trophy, which goes to the most outstanding college football player in Mississippi, were announced today. Players are chosen by their respective schools and a combination of votes from the C Spire fan voting and a poll of sports news media representatives who […]
Jackson, Miss. (November 1, 2018) – Former Ole Miss and New Orleans Saints great Deuce McAllister will be the keynote speaker at the 2018 C Spire Conerly Trophy awards program on Tuesday, Nov. 27 at the Country Club of Jackson. The C Spire Conerly Trophy is presented annually to the top college football player in […]
