SCOOBA — East Mississippi Community College announced its 2024 Sports Hall of Fame induction class this week, which includes two area natives, Dr. Ed Davis from Clay County and Thurman “Buddy” Lowe Jr. from Lowndes County.
Davis and Lowe join a class that includes former Lions basketball star Deborah Stancil, two-time College National Finals Rodeo champion Marcus Theriot and former All-State centerfielder Kent Williams.
Davis, now a Starkville resident, began his career in education at EMCC in 1984, where he served as a faculty member and basketball coach. He was involved in the planning and completion of EMCC’s Keyes T. Currie Coliseum and would later serve as a director of recruiting, an administrator at the Columbus Air Force Base extension center and later the school’s Vice President of the Scooba Campus.
Lowe hails from Columbus, where he played offensive tackle and was a three-year letterman at Lee High School where he was named to the 1976 Commercial Dispatch All-Area team.
After high school, Lowe joined Hall of Fame football coach Randal Bradberry’s Lions team, where he was a two-time All-State selection. He would go on to play for Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. After his playing days, Lowe worked as a general manager of a fixed-based operator at the New Orleans International Airport for 22 years.
The 2024 inductees will be honored in a special ceremony at halftime of EMCC’s final home football game of the regular season against Mississippi Delta Community College on Oct. 24.
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