Mickey Englett of Northwest Florida State is lone inductee to NJCAA Women's Basketball Hall of Fame for 2012

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Mickey Englett of Northwest Florida State is lone inductee to NJCAA Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame for 2012

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Northwest Florida State College current athletic director and former women’s basketball coach Mickey Englett is this year’s single inductee to the NJCAA Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Englett, who also currently serves on the NJCAA Board of Directors as the Region 8 Women’s Director, will be honored at the NJCAA Women’s Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Showcase this summer.  

After the Raider athletics program at then Okalossa Walton Junior College was dropped in 1978, Englett was responsible for reinstituting athletics at the college in 1990.  In addition to being athletic director, from 1991-93 he stepped in as the head coach of the women’s basketball team and posted a 57-7 record during the two seasons, winning a Panhandle Conference and Region 8 championship. His 1993 squad advanced and participated in the NJCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship in just the second year of the program.

Over the past 20 years, the athletic programs at Northwest Florida State have won 19 Panhandle Conference championships and have advanced to an NJCAA national tournament seven times with the 1995 men’s basketball program winning the college’s lone national championship.

As the leader of Northwest Florida State athletics, Englett has helped raise millions of dollars for new and improved athletic facilities for both the men’s and women’s programs. Most recently he led the initiative for a new $31 million campus facility that is the home of the men’s and women’s basketball arena that also features classrooms, wellness center and ROTC facilities.

After developing a plan for gender equity on the NWF campus, the colleges has been in full compliance with 12 of the 13 components each of the past 20 years of intercollegiate athletics activity.

Also under his leadership, graduation rates among student-athletes have been equal to or greater than the general student body at the NWF each year with an overall graduation rate of 67% for student-athletes.

Prior to his arrival at NWF, Englett was the athletic director as well as the head baseball and men’s basketball coach at Cumberland Junior College (Tenn.), now Cumberland University. He was responsible for launching the college’s first female varsity sport (women’s basketball).

As an administrator, Englett has championed women’s basketball and women’s athletics overall for the past 20 years in both the Florida College System Activities Association (FCSAA) and NJCAA. He is currently in his ninth term on the FCSAA Executive Committee and his eighth term as the FCSAA Commissioner for Women’s Athletics and NJCAA Region 8 Women’s Director. He currently serves on the NJCAA Division I women’s basketball committee as well as the Division I softball and volleyball committees.  In addition he is a current member of the NJCAA Executive Committee and is a respected national poll representative for Division I women’s basketball and volleyball. He has previously served on multiple national committees for the NJCAA, including the districting committee, eligibility committee and swimming & diving committee.

Not only has Englett served the FCSAA and NJCAA but he also was a strong voice for women’s athletics for the Florida State Board of Community Colleges on their Gender Equity in Athletics Committee.

Englett has been an active member of NATYCAA (National Alliance of Two-Year College Athletic Administrators) and served as a member of the group’s board of directors for many years and was named the 2001 NATYCAA Athletic Director of the Year.

For his services and dedication to intercollegiate athletics, he has previously been inducted into the Cumberland University Hall of Fame, the FCSAA Hall of Fame and the FCSAA Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. He has been awarded the FCSAA Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor given by the organization. He was also honored for his 15 years of national service to the NJCAA in the spring of 2011.

Englett is set to retire from his duties at Northwest Florida State at the conclusion of the 2011-12 academic season.

About the NJCAA: The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) is the governing body of two-year college athletics, offering athletic and academic opportunities to college students. It is the second largest national intercollegiate athletic organization in the United States with over 500 member schools in 43 states. Each year over 60,000 student-athletes compete in one of 28 different sports and the organization sponsors 48 national championship events and nine football bowl games. For more, visit http://www.njcaa.org.