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Celtics' Crowder fights way to the top By: On Pro Basketball Michael Muldoon Lawrence Eagle Tribune LAWRENCE ¬— Jae Crowder was pounding nails Tuesday, repairing benches in the playground at Lawrence’s Frost Middle School. It was perfect. That’s what the Celtic forward is ... blue collar through and through. In the NBA, blue-collar is a double-edged sword. It means you are tough and driven. It also usually means you aren’t physically gifted like so many of your freakishly talented...

Approximately 150 individuals attended the South Georgia Technical College Jets Booster Club 2016 Tip Off banquet recently in the James S. Peters Gymnasium (The Hangar) at South Georgia Technical College in Americus. All Jets Booster Club members, prospective members, guests, and interested persons were invited to attend the “Tip-Off Event” which featured a Low Country Boil Dinner and door prizes. Individuals had the opportunity to meet and greet the Jets and Lady Jets coaches,...

ATLANTA – South Georgia Technical College received the Technical College System of Georgia FY2016 Adult Education Award for having the Highest Postsecondary Transition Percentage in the state. This is the second year in a row that South Georgia Technical College has been recognized for this award. LaShondra Coleman, Assistant Vice President for Adult Education at South Georgia Tech, and Lisa Jordan, Adult Education assistant, accepted the award for the college at the TCSG Fall Adult...

South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) student organization for the Crisp County Center campus recently elected new club officers for the 2016-2017 academic year. Those officers included: D.W. Persall, a Business Technology student from Cordele, President; Lisa Ray, a Business Technology student from Cordele, Vice President; MyKaula Harvey, a Business Technology student from Cordele, Secretary; and Christian Powell, a Computer Information Systems student from...

  South Georgia Technical College faculty and staff recently welcomed students from Schley County Middle School for a tour of SGTC’s program areas on the Americus campus. Schley County Middle School Principal Todd West wanted students to see firsthand the types of Move On When Ready (MOWR) opportunities that were available to them once they entered high school, as well as the other programs of study offered by SGTC. MOWR allows high school students to take college level courses at South...

SAVANNAH, GA - The Charles L. Mix Memorial Fund, Inc. was selected as the Technical College Foundation Association (TCFA) statewide Benefactor of the Year for 2016 recently. The Charles L. Mix Memorial Fund was nominated for this honor by the South Georgia Technical College Foundation and was recognized for this honor at the annual Technical College System of Georgia Leadership Conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Savannah in front of over 200 individuals from around the state. ...

The Sumter Electric Membership Corporation Foundation, Inc. awarded a grant in the amount of $5,000 to the South Georgia Technical College Foundation recently. Sumter Electric Membership Corporation Foundation Chairman Greg Crowder presented the check to South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford and South Georgia Technical College Foundation Executive Director Su Ann Bird recently. Proceeds from the Sumter EMC Foundation grant will be used to purchase equipment for the...

RICHMOND, Ky. — Former South Georgia Technical College and Eastern Kentucky University standout Shameekia “Polly” Murray has signed a professional contract with the DePiro Basketball Club. DePiro is an affiliate of the Malta Basketball Association located in Mtarfa, Malta. Malta is a southern European island in the Mediterranean which lies approximately 50 miles from Italy. Murray, a 5’ 10” guard from Claxton helped lead South Georgia Technical College to a 30 – 5 overall...

Shamekia “Polly” Murray, 10, is shown above in her South Georgia Tech Lady Jets uniform. This is her photo that is shown on the SGTC Wall of Fame in the gym. She has now signed a control to play in a professional basketball league.

  South Georgia Technical College students elected into student club and organization leadership positions had the opportunity to participate in a local student leadership retreat and installation ceremony, held recently in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on SGTC’s Americus campus. Club Presidents, Vice Presidents, Secretaries, Parliamentarians, Treasurers, Reporters, and Historians of the Student Government Association (SGA), SkillsUSA, Phi Beta Lambda (PBL), and the...

Approximately 90 different individuals from over 10 different organizations participated in an “active shooter” training drill on the South Georgia Technical College Americus campus recently. “I would like to thank all of the different agencies and individuals who took part in the planning and implementation of this drill,” said South Georgia Technical College Dr. John Watford. “In the world in which we live today, we have to be prepared for a worst case scenario and that is...

  Seated from left to right are SGTC Student of Excellence nominees LaWarrior Gardner, Elizabeth Lumpkin, Judashia Eley, Linda Kent, Norma Hardester, Grady Barfield, Lindsey Massey, and Taylor Hatfield. Standing from left to right are nominating instructors Xavier Jackson, Dorothea Lusane-McKenzie, Teresa McCook, Ricky Watzlowick, Jaye Cripe, Terry Westbury, Diana Skipper, and Debra Smith. Linda Kent of Montezuma, a South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Culinary Arts student, was named...