Muskogee college attempts 2 world records

MUSKOGEE, Okla. – Thwack, thwack, thwack, thwack, splat.

With an assist from the Bacone College baseball team, Cherokee Nation citizen Brian Jackson set another world record Thursday morning, as the team hit him with 33 water balloons in one minute from about 35 feet away – one more than the previous record.

“I tried this once before with a high school team but they couldn’t get enough balloons at me without them breaking first,” a drenched Jackson said. “At least the weather’s pretty nice today.”

Known as the “I believe guy,” Jackson has broken 11 world records with groups across northeastern Oklahoma.

Pending confirmation, a second world record may have also been broken on the Bacone campus Thursday as well.

Forming a massive circle, 356 people attempted to set a record for the world’s largest round dance. Along with Bacone students and faculty, groups from the Choctaw Nation, Sequoyah High School, Muskogee High School, the Cherokee Nation Immersion School and Cherokee Nation Tribal Council looped the campus quad to beat of an Oglala Lakota song.

Cindy Farmer, the Criminal Justice Society’s faculty adviser, said the group would submit the documentation in order for the school to claim the world record, currently held by a 350-member round dance in Canada.