Bio

Delores Ann Parker Sumrall

Perkinston Junior College (1951-52) / Basketball
St. Martin, Mississippi

Delores (Parker) Sumrall, born April 5, 1933, in Biloxi, attended St. Martin High School, lettered four years in basketball and was co-captain of the team her senior year. She also played on amateur fast-pitch softball teams including the Gulfport Hi Neighbors softball team which won the 1950 Mississippi State Championship. Sumrall attended Perkinston Junior College for the 1951-1952 session, where she was a guard on the Perkette basketball team and was named Honorable Mention Mississippi Association of Junior Colleges All-State for her season's performance. In addition to her intercollegiate play at Perk, Sumrall also served as captain of a campus intramural basketball team. After leaving Perk she earned a bachelor of science degree in education at Mississippi Southern College in Hattiesburg and a master of science degree in education at William Carey College located in the same city. During her 34-year career as a coach, teacher, and administrator, she coached junior high basketball and track at St. Martin for six years. In track, her teams won the county and conference championships five times. Her basketball teams won the county championship four times and the conference championship three times. The 1995 Dixie Bowl was dedicated to Sumrall in honor of her decades-long commitment to the youth of the St. Martin community. In 1999, after 14 years of service to MGCCC as a Trustee (including two one-year stints as Chairperson of the Board), the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT) elected Sumrall as a member of the ACCT National Board of Directors, which in turn elected her Southern Region Chairperson.