JCSU football coach Maurice Flowers feted by boosters

DONALD WATKINS | THE CHARLOTTE POST

Johnson C. Smith football coach Maurice Flowers is the 2026 recipient of the Jimmie McKee Distinguished Leadership and Service Award given by the 100 Club.

Johnson C. Smith football coach Maurice Flowers will be recognized by the school’s boosters.

The 100 Club will salute Flowers with the annual Jimmie McKee Distinguished Leadership and Service Award June 6 at the New Science Hall on the JCSU campus. A reception starts at 6 p.m., followed by dinner at 7 p.m. with SIAC Commissioner and JCSU alumnus Anthony Holloman as speaker. Holloman is a 2024 inductee to JCSU’s sports Hall of Fame. 

Retired East Mecklenburg High football coach Bill Dulin, who is also a JCSU graduate, will introduce Flowers.

Admission is $100 and proceeds support all 16 JCSU-sponsored sports and the 100 Club’s Educational Endowment and Scholarship Fund. 

For tickets and to make donations, go to jcsu100club.com.

In four seasons, Flowers has coached JCSU to three straight seasons of seven wins or more, including a school record 10-2 campaign in 2025 that included the CIAA football title and the program’s first berth in the NCAA Division II playoffs. JCSU finished the season ranked No. 18 in the final AFCA coaches’ poll – another first.

The 100 Club presents the award in honor of McKee, who founded the organization in 1966 to celebrate JCSU’s centennial. He also founded the Historic Excelsior Club in 1944.

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