NICK Eddlemon

Nick Eddlemon is the Principal of Olive Branch Middle School in Desoto County and has been honored to work with a great community and staff and has really enjoyed being a Quistor this past year.

Nick lives on his family land in Tunica County, but he calls Desoto County his home since he has lived and worked there most of his life. After graduating from Southaven High School, Nick earned his Bachelor’s degree from Freed-Hardeman University. He then began his teaching and coaching career, where he mentored students at West Memphis Christian School, Magnolia Heights School, Center Hill High School, and Hernando High School. Although baseball and volleyball were his primary sports to coach, Nick started the Archery program at Hernando where they won the North Half Championship in their 3rd year.

With a Master’s degree from Arkansas State University, Nick has since entered Administration, spending time at Southaven, Lake Cormorant, and Horn Lake Middle Schools before becoming Principal of Olive Branch Middle. His claim to 15 minutes of fame was a viral video of a haircut from a local barber that made its rounds a few years ago, but Nick hopes to be known for the relationships he has built with former players and students to help them become more mature, successful adults.

Nick has a wonderful family, including his wife of almost 23 years, Daphne, and three great children who have brought them much joy: Jaci, Jadyn, and Brody who are 19, 17, and 15, respectively.

JILL MORRIS

Jill Morris is a lifelong dance student, consistently training and learning in order to pass on this learning to others.  She has been teaching dance for 30 years and her favorite style is always the one she is learning or teaching at the time.  

Jill has studied dance at many prestigious studios such as Broadway Dance Center, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Steps On Broadway,  Millennium Dance Center Los Angeles, Debbie Reynolds Dance Studio, Ballet Memphis and many others. She received training in aerial arts at Hollywood Aerial Arts as well as Om Factory in NYC. 

Jill opened Stars In Motion performing arts school in 1997 in Hernando, Miss., serving local dancers for 27 years, adding aerial arts and yoga classes in 2016. She currently teaches yoga, aerial arts, dance technique, Pilates and Progressing Ballet Technique at Stars In Motion. Jill also teaches dance and yoga throughout the Mississippi and Arkansas delta, reaching under-resourced communities. She serves as a health ambassador for the Mississippi State Health Department. She also teaches creative movement and SEL classes for young children for Hernando Parks Department. 

She has created choreography for Liberty Bowl halftime shows and many local theatrical productions, with three nominations for Allie Awards. Jill has served as Aerial Arts Coordinator for Kudzu, as well as Evangelical Christian School in Memphis. Jill is founding director of Ballet DeSoto where she recently produced their 20th anniversary Nutcracker. 

In her spare time, she loves to travel, hike, and thrift for vintage clothes. Jill and her husband, Mike, live in Days, Miss., and have three grown children.