EXHIBIT 24


                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

          WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc. (the
"Company") has determined that it is in the best interest of the Company to
register 70,820 shares of the Company's common stock in connection with the
issuance of non-qualified stock options to purchase shares of common stock of
the Company to Clyde B. Anderson;

          WHEREAS, the Company proposes to file a registration statement and
amendments thereto under the Securities Act of 1933 with respect to each of the
above-referenced plans.

          NOW, THEREFORE, KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned
directors and officers of the Company, individually as a director and/or as an
officer of the Company, hereby make, constitute and appoint each of Michael J.
Newsome and Susan H. Fitzgibbon their true and lawful attorney-in-fact for each
of them and in each of their names, places and steads to sign and cause to be
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission said registration statements,
including any appropriate amendments thereto, to be a accompanied by any
necessary exhibits.

          The Company hereby authorizes said persons or any one of them to
execute said registration statements and amendments thereto on its behalf as
attorney-in-fact for it and its authorized officers, and to file the same as
aforesaid.

          The undersigned directors and officers of the Company hereby authorize
said persons or any one of them to sign said registration statements on their
behalf as attorney-in-fact and to amend, or remedy any deficiencies with respect
to, said registration statements by appropriate amendment or amendments and to
file the same as aforesaid, hereby giving and granting to said attorneys full
power and authority to do so and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite and necessary to complete the foregoing, hereby ratifying and
confirming all that said attorneys may or shall do, or cause to be done, by
virtue hereof.

          Dated as of June 4, 1997.



                                       /s/  Clyde B. Anderson
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                                       Clyde B. Anderson


                                       /s/  H. Ray Compton
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                                       H. Ray Compton


                                       /s/  F. Barron Fletcher, III
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                                       F. Barron Fletcher, III


                                       /s/  Carl Kirkland
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                                       Carl Kirkland

 
                                       /s/  John F. Megrue, Jr.
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                                       John F. Megrue, Jr.


                                       /s/  Michael J. Newsome
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                                       Michael J. Newsome


                                       /s/  Thomas A. Saunders
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                                       Thomas A. Saunders


                                       /s/  Susan H. Fitzgibbon
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                                       Susan H. Fitzgibbon