PEARL – Former Northwest two-sport athlete G. Max Lee was inducted into the Mississippi Community and Junior College Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday night.
The Eighth Annual induction ceremony was held at the Muse Center on the Rankin County campus of Hinds Community College, with close to 300 in attendance.
A native of Metairie, La., Lee was a two-sport athlete at Northwest Mississippi Junior College during the 1959-61 seasons, earning two letters in both football and baseball for the Rangers.
Lee was offered a football scholarship in the spring of 1959 by head coach Jimmy Jobe and played two seasons.
With Lee as quarterback for the 1960 Rangers, his sophomore season, the team finished the year with seven consecutive wins and won the school's first state championship (co-champs) at 9-1 overall. In that same year he was named all-state and a Mississippi Junior College All-Star.
Lee played the 1960-61 baseball seasons for head coaches Billy Oakley and Jack Adams, seeing time on the mound and in the outfield.
While at Northwest, Lee served as class president his freshman and sophomore year, president of Phi Theta Kappa his sophomore year and was a member of the Student Council.
After leaving Northwest, he earned a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Mississippi State University in 1964 and served in the Naval Air Reserves from 1965-1971.
He was employed with Louisiana Power and Light—later becoming Entergy Corporation—in New Orleans, La., from 1964 until his retirement in 1999.
All-Time MACJC Sports Hall of Fame Inductees from Northwest:2015
— G. Max Lee, Football/Baseball
2014 — Will Hall, Football2013
— Bud Young, Rodeo
2012 — Mike Rowan, Football/Baseball2011
— Don Randolph, Men's Basketball
2010 — Jamie Howell Sr., Basketball/Baseball/Track
2009 — Kenneth "Cat" Robbins, Basketball Coach
2008 — Cortez Kennedy, Football, Harry Adair, Basketball Coach
2007 — Donny Castle, Jim Miles, Bobby Franklin, Baseball/Football Coach
