Hall of Fame
Mike "Skeeter" Robertson was a two-year letterman in football and a one-year letterman in baseball at Jones.
He played on the 1972 South Division championship team under head coach Sim Cooley. He was named first-team all-state and Honorable Mention All-American in 1972. He participated in the Mississippi Junior College All-Star Game.
He had several offers to play Division I football, but chose to run the family dairy farm after the death of his father.
Robertson would later serve as baseball coach and assistant football coach at South Jones High School and head softball coach at Taylorsville High School. He is currently a Physical Education teacher at South Jones and East Jones Elementary schools.
He coached baseball for 27 years in the Dixie Youth, Dixie Boys, Dixie Majors, Dizzy Dean and American Legion leagues. He is a past president of the South Jones Football Booster Club and the South Jones Baseball Diamond Club.
Robertson received numerous Ellisville Jaycee Awards, including Outstanding Young Man of the Year in 1977, Outstanding Young Farmer in 1976, “SPOKE” of the Year in 1975, 1976 and 1977 and Outstanding Project Chairman in 1975 and 1977.
He worked for the United States Postal Service for 27 years and received the USPS Special Achievement Award for Notable Performance.
He is an active member of Ellisville’s First Baptist Church, the Mississippi High School Activities Association and the Mississippi Association of Coaches.
Robertson is a member of the JCJC Alumni Association and the Bobcat Club.
He and his wife, Teresa, have three sons – Joe-Michael, Chuck and Jonathan – who all played football and baseball at JCJC. Joe-Michael is a member of the JCJC Sports Hall of Fame and Chuck currently serves as the housing director at Jones.
