“I was so excited when I heard that it was Western coming down… a bit of home right here in the Bahamas,” Mizell said.
Mizell has lived in the Bahamas for the last five and half years, teaching seventh grade science, marine science, and early physical education at a private school. Mizell also started the Diving Dragons Dive Club, where students, teachers, and parents dive together once a month.
Going to the bowl game won’t be a first for Mizell; as a student, she was the first Buster Bronco and had the opportunity to participate in the 1988 MAC Championship win, and then in the 1988 California Raisin Bowl.
“It was absolutely thrilling,” said Mizell of being part of a bowl game.“We made appearances around the area, including at a local children's hospital. It was great fun being part of the WMU ‘team’ with the players, coaches, band, cheer team, admin, and all of the family and friends that traveled out for the game.”
Mizell was Buster for the 1988 and 1989 football seasons, as well as the 1988 basketball season. She had declared she wanted to be Buster at her very first home football game, and then had the opportunity to try out only a few months later.
“I worked out with the cheerleading team and also had been a drum major so I got to direct the pep band once in a while,” she said. “It truly made my time at WMU the best ever.”
Mizell plans to attend the Bahamas Bowl game with her husband and children. Her parents will also be traveling from Michigan to watch the Broncos take on the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders. The game kicks off at noon at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium in Nassau; it will be televised on ESPN.
The image above is of a more recent Buster.