Having first joined the Golden Eagle fray for two-a-day football camp in 1991, HarborPointe, like so many others, has witnessed many ups and downs with Southern Miss, from which he holds an undergraduate degree.

An athletic trainer by trade and support-staff letter winner during his years at USM (former defensive back Shaun Gamble often said he wouldn’t trade him for the Playmate of the Year), HP has rehabilitated the injured and/or post-operative extremities of a countless many, including a handful of eventual NFL stars. He also holds the trivial distinction of having taped the ankles that set the Louisiana high school career touchdown record in 2000. His constant peering “behind the curtain” and right into the day-to-day minutiae of the sports world brings with it a unique perspective.

Once dubbed the “Golden Eagle Hacker-Backer” by Tim Doherty in the Hattiesburg American as a result of his pre-browser-era internet musings, and at one time featured on the M.K. Turk Show as one of the “Painted Fans,” he also claims partial credit for the creation of the Eagle Walk, which came to be after the 1958 & 1962 National Championship banner he created with a can of paint and a bedsheet in Vann Hall’s back parking lot in 1994 caught the eye of someone in the athletic department.

After too many address changes to count, HarborPointe (who incidentally took the name from an apartment complex in which he once lived) currently resides with his lovely wife in southwest Jackson County, pleasantly sandwiched between Ocean Springs’ eastern corporate limit and the Mississippi Sound. (The cat actually runs the house, though.)