Jones College

Carla Collins enters her 10th year as Director of Academic Enhancement for the Jones College football team.

Dozens of Bobcats have made the College's academic honor roll, Academic All-MACCC and NJCAA All-Academic Teams during her tenure. Quarterback Alan Follis also became the school's first-ever College Sports Communicators Academic All-American in 2023.

Jones was honored as the 2018 NJCAA Football Academic Team of the Year with a 3.14 GPA and was recognized as the MACCC Academic Team of the Year in back-to-back seasons in 2018 and 2019. The 2020 team had a 2.97 Team GPA and the 2021 team had a 3.00 Team GPA.

Since joining the JC football family, Jones has boasted a 96 percent graduation rate and nearly 200 players have moved on to play at the four-year level. 

Collins came to the Bobcat family after seven years as the Academic Counselor/Tutor Coordinator at Southern Mississippi. In this role, she oversaw academic advisement and registration for student-athletes, monitored study hall requirements as well as participated in weekly meetings with coaches and student-athletes to ensure eligibility and degree completion. 

Prior to her work at Southern Miss, she spent 10 years at the University of Miami as an assistant director of marketing from 2005-08 and the community relations coordinator from 1999-2005.

Collins earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Applied Arts from Central Michigan in 1998 and a Master’s of Science in Education from the University of Miami in 2002.

A native of Bay City, Michigan, Carla is married to Gary Collins and the couple has two boys, Jackson and Austin.