Bio

Robert Wayne "Bobby" Weathers

Perkinston Agricultural High School & Junior College/Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior/Community College (1961-2002) / Coach (Basketball)
Oak Grove, Mississippi

Weathers played basketball for four years at Mississippi Southern College and coached the freshman team, 1955-1957. He went into the automobile business for one year, 1957-1958, and then returned to coach the Mississippi Southern freshman for the 1958-1959 year.

Following the completion of his master's degree in 1959, he coached one year at Picayune and then accepted the position as head basketball coach at Perkinston Junior College. In 1999, he continued in that position at MGCCC. In 40 years, his roundballers had racked up more than 800 victories gaining 14 Mississippi Association of Community and Junior Colleges (MACJC) south division basketball championships and nine MACJC state basketball championships. His 1990, 1991, and 1993 teams each won the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XXIII title.

Weathers' 1991 team finished fourth in the nation, and his 1993 team finished fifth in the nation. In 1999, he was styled the "Winningest Active Basketball Coach in Junior College History." Also, in 1999, only one coach in American junior college history had won more games than Weathers. He was named MACJC Coach of the Year four times. He was chosen NJCAA Region XXIII Coach of the Year three times.

He was inducted into the University of Southern Mississippi Hall of Fame in 1993. In 1994, he was inducted into the NJCAA Hall of Fame, and in 1999 he was inducted into the Mississippi Association of Coaches Hall of Fame. Weathers retired from Gulf Coast in 2002 with a record of 910-345.