TYLER, Texas – Former Jones College coach Mark Easley has been inducted into the NJCAA Women's Tennis Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
 
He will be recognized at the NJCAA Women's Division I Tournament banquet on Friday evening in Tyler, Texas. 

Easley was the head men's and women's tennis coach at Jones from 1999-2016.
 
He was 355-145 (.710) with a 188-59 record on the women's side and a 167-86 mark on the men's side. That includes four MACCC and two Region 23 Tournament titles on the women's side, along with 11 women's and six men's national tournament appearances. He also had six MACCC runner-ups and four region runner-ups.
 
He coached 23 conference singles champions, 23 conference doubles champions, 12 Region 23 singles champions, 10 Region 23 doubles champions, 45 All-MACCC players and 22 All-Region 23 players. 
 
Easley was a five-time MACCC Coach of the Year, a five-time Mississippi Association of Coaches (MAC) Coach of the Year and the 2015 Wilson/ITA Region 3 National Coach of the Year. His teams reached the national tournament 17 times. 
 
After retiring as tennis coach in 2016, Easley became Dean of Student Affairs. He retired from that position in 2019, but still works part-time at the college, including a role as assistant tennis coach.
 
Easley also serves as the "Voice of the Bobcats" for Jones College football, basketball, baseball and softball games.
 
In soccer, Easley served as an assistant coach in 1999 and was head coach from 2000-05. 
  
Easley graduated from Vardaman High School in 1981 and was a standout basketball player at Delta State University from 1982-85.

Easley is also a member of the Jones College Athletics Hall of Fame, the Delta State University Hall of Fame and the Delta State University Athletics Hall of Fame
  
He and his wife, Melody, have been married for 39 years. They have two daughters: Katie Shores and her husband, Aaron; Lauryn Doggett, and her husband, Brody; and a son, Daniel. They have three grandchildren, Norah, Grayson and Caleb Shores.