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Mississippi Gulf Coast CC

MGCCC Bulldog Athletics
 51 Main Street Perkinston, MS 39573
NJCAA Mississippi Southeast
Public Large Competitive team
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Chris Handy

Chris Handy enters his 11th season as Gulf Coast’s men’s soccer coach fresh off a 2022 MACCC/Region 23 championship. His teams have won 10 or more games in eight of the last nine seasons, compiling a 112-55-10 record during his tenure in Perkinston.


The Bulldogs were MACCC South Division runners-up, then won three matches on the way to the title. In the championship, Gulf Coast tied archrival Pearl River, which was ranked third in the country, 2-2 after regulation and two overtime periods. The Bulldogs won a penalty shootout that stretched to eight rounds to earn the program’s first trip to the NJCAA National Championship tournament. Gulf Coast lost a pair of one-goal matches in pool play in Wichita, Kansas. Handy earned MACCC, NJCAA Region 23, and NJCAA South District Coach of the Year after his team’s sensational season, and he and his staff were named United Soccer Coaches South Region Staff of the Year.


Gulf Coast had previously made trips to four MACJC championship games, including the 2016 and 2017 seasons which saw the Bulldog blitz the MACJC South Division undefeated with an 18-0 record.


Handy wore both men’s and women’s coaching hats in taking the teams to the 2013 postseason and was named 2014 South Region Men’s Coach of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.


Handy was the assistant men’s coach at Tyler Junior College from 2007-11, where the teams went 89-9-6 with back-to-back NJCAA titles in 2009-10. He played and interned at Florida International University in 2005-6, where he graduated with a degree in strength and conditioning. Handy also has a master’s in education in kinesiology from the University of Texas at Tyler.


The Austin, Texas, native played at Tyler Junior College, where he was an All-Region and two-time Academic All-Region selection. He and his wife, Apryl, have three children: Jazzlyn, 9, and Jaxon, 7, and Jayce, 3.

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Windham Whatley

Former Gulf Coast captain Windham Whatley is basking in the afterglow of the first men’s soccer MACCC/Region 23 championship in a decade heading into his third season on the coaching staff at his alma mater in 2022-23. The Bulldogs went to their first NJCAA Men’s Soccer Championship in Wichita, Kansas, where they lost a pair of tight, one-goal matches.


In his first season, he was part of a coaching staff that saw the men win the MACCC South championship. The women’s team advanced to the MACCC semifinals, where the Bulldogs lost to eventual national runner-up Holmes.


Whatley was a defensive midfielder for the Bulldogs in the 2016 and 2017 seasons, and he was a rare two-year captain. He played in the MACJC All-Star Game following his sophomore season.


He earned United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-American honors as a sophomore, along with NJCAA Academic Student-Athlete honors. Whatley was twice on the Academic All-MACJC list.


Whatley went on to play at William Carey, where he graduated with a bachelor’s in physical education.


He coaches for the South Mississippi Soccer Club and was an assistant at Sumrall in 2019-20, while he was also coaching for the Hattiesburg Futbol Club.

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