The Gazebo Gazette
LONG BEACH (GG) — The South Coast Sea Turtles, Coastal Mississippi’s semi-professional, ABA basketball team, will be using Coast Episcopal School’s gymnasium for its 2024-25 season, according to a joint announcement by the team’s CEO & Creator Jerry Thompson and CES Head of School Jake Winter.
“After looking all along the Coast, from Moss Point to Ocean Springs and Biloxi to Long Beach, we were excited to find the Coast Episcopal School’s gymnasium for our home court. The gym’s facilities and location are a good fit for our team’s needs,” stated Thompson. “Partnering with this new team is a nice opportunity for Coast Episcopal School. Our students have been participating in the Catholic Youth Organization’s basketball program for several years and hosting semi-professional games on our campus builds on the enthusiasm our families have for the sport,” according to Winter.
Nine games will be played in the CES gymnasium located on the Long Beach independent school’s 25-acre campus, with the first scheduled for 4 pm, Sunday, November 24 against Montgomery, Alabama’s River Region Generals.
Thompson and his wife, Mariah, first created the team in southern California and, as MS Gulf Coast natives, decided to move the Black Division team to the coast “As a force to be reckoned with in the South Region.” The South Coast Sea Turtles is composed of 12 players, ages 18-40, who were chosen from the original 40 athletes who tried out for the team.
Thompson added that concessions will be sold and, as a special thank you to Coast Episcopal School, admission will be free to all students (when accompanied by an adult) and faculty.
The 2024-25 schedule is posted and tickets can be purchased on seaturtlesbasketball.com
Coast Episcopal School has been dedicated to a life-long love of learning by developing the whole child – mind, body and spirit – and providing a joyful, unique and nurturing Judeo-Christian Community that inspires its students to imagine and create a better world. Founded in 1950, CES is a member of the Southern Association of Independent Schools (SAIS).
For information: Coast Episcopal School, 5065 Espy Avenue, Long Beach, MS, 39560. 228-452-9442. Coastepiscopalschool.org
