Laurel native and former Bobcat Kate Ewing returned to Jones in 2023 as an assistant cheer coach and begins her second full season as head coach of the Jones College cheer program during the 2025-26 sports season.Â
Jones claimed its third UCA Open Coed National Championship in four seasons in 2024.Â
Sixteen student-athletes have inked with four-year programs in her first two seasons on staff, 15 of those to Division I programs.
Other duties for Ewing in her student affairs role include scheduling student activities on campus and intramurals.
Ewing, then Broom, cheered at Jones from 2018-20 and went on to don the sidelines and courts at the University of Alabama from 2020-23 while completing her bachelor's in kinesiology.
Ewing has coached gymnastics at Laurel Gym & Cheer, worked with youth teams in Laurel and is currently a competition coach for West Jones High School, where she graduated in 2018.
Ewing and her husband Reece, who played baseball at Southern Miss, celebrated their first wedding anniversary in January 2025.
