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Fanta Gassama, 23, named Women’s Basketball GCAA Player of the Week.   South Georgia Technical College’s Fanta Gassama has been selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 Women’s Basketball player of the week for the first poll of 2023.  Gassama averaged 11.3 points, 15.6 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 2.6 steals and 1.3 blocks in three wins for the Lady Jets last week and helped lead them to a 2nd place National Junior College Athletic Association ranking.    This...

Deonte Willams, 12, had 14 points against Florida SouthWestern.Ft. Myers, FL – The South Georgia Technical College Jets dropped to 3 – 9 overall this season after the 25th ranked National Junior College Athletic Association Florida SouthWestern Pirates took a 92 – 59 victory in the Florida SouthWestern Classic tournament in Ft. Myers, FL.    This was the sixth consecutive loss for the Jets and they are hoping to turn that streak around today when they match-up with State College of...

Shown above are the four Lady Jets that are listed nationally for their individual accomplishments this season. Shown on the top row are: Lady Jets Luanna Leite, 1, and Loes Rozing, 2, On the bottom row are Alexia Dizeko, 5, and Fanta Gassama, 23.     The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets moved up two spots into 2nd place in the National Junior College Athletic Association’s (NJCAA) Division I women’s basketball poll released this week.  This is only the second time in the...

Shelton State Community College head coach Madonna Thompson is shown above talking with the Lady Bucs during a timeout in the upset over Eastern Florida.Americus, GA - The unranked National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Shelton State Bucs upset the NJCAA’s top-ranked Eastern Florida Titans 60 – 44 on Sunday in the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets Holiday Classic that saw four of the top 12 women’s basketball teams in the NJCAA Division I league competing n the...

Fanta Gassama, 23, was the leading scorer for the Lady Jets in the match-up against Pensacola.   The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets showed the 12th ranked Pensacola State College Lady Pirates why they are currently ranked 4th in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division 1 women’s basketball rankings with a 68 – 57 win in the pre-cursor game of the Lady Jets Holiday Classic basketball tournament in the Hangar Thursday night.    “I thought we played...

Camyrn James, 24, of Macon scored 35 points for the Lady Jets in wins over Central Georgia Tech and Tallahassee Community College on the road over the Holiday break.   The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I 4th nationally ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets captured wins against Central Georgia Technical College and Tallahassee Community College over the holidays to bring a 14-game win steak into a match-up against the 12th ranked Pensacola Lady...

Camryn James, 24, named Women’s Basketball GCAA Player of the Week.   South Georgia Technical College’s Camryn James has been selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 Women’s Basketball player of the week in the last poll of 2022.  James scored 17 points and had 10 rebounds and three blocks in a 59 – 46 victory over Central Georgia Tech in Macon, GA.    James, a 6’ 2” sophomore forward from Macon, Georgia,  has helped lead the Lady Jets to a 4th...

Shown above are the NJCAA 4th ranked Lady Jets sophomores: Luana Leite, 1; Loes Rozing, 2; Da’Nae Williams, 3; Alexia Dizeko, 5; Susana Yepes, 10; Mame Thiaw, 12: Laurie Calixte, 13; Fanta Gassama, 23; and Camryn James, 24.    Holiday flight cancelations caused a change in the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets Holiday Classic women’s basketball tournament this weekend including the game scheduled for tonight, Thursday, December 29th at 6 p.m.  Instead of facing Snow College from Ephriam,...

Shown above are the NJCAA 4th ranked Lady Jets.    Three of the top four National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division 1 Women’s Basketball teams will be participating in the Lady Jets Holiday Classic at South Georgia Technical College in Americus, GA, December 30th – January 1st.    Eastern Florida State, the top ranked team in the NJCAA Division 1 Women’s Standings, as well as the currently number two team in the nation, Gulf Coast Community College, will join the...

SGTC High Performance Engines – Motorsports Instructor Kevin Beaver is shown above talking with a student about the new Motorcycle Maintenance program that will begin at SGTC Spring Semester. Classes start January 11th and it is not too late to apply.   South Georgia Technical College will begin offering a new one-semester Motorcycle Maintenance Technician technical certificate of credit Spring Semester, which begins January 11th, 2023.  Students can apply now.    “The program is being...

Fanta Gassama, 23, named GCAA Player of the Week   South Georgia Technical College’s Fanta Gassama has been selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 Women’s Basketball player of the week.  Gassama averaged 18.3 points and 13.3 rebounds in three wins for the Lady Jets last week.    Gassama, a 6’ 1” sophomore center from Mataro Spain, has helped lead the Lady Jets to a 4th place national ranking in the National Junior College Athletic Association and a...

Twelve graduates of the South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) program received their nursing pins in a recent ceremony in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus. A crowd of family, friends, administrators, and instructors attended the event to show their support as the students participated in the traditional pinning ritual. Receiving their pins were Jasmine Brown of Albany, pinned by SGTC grad Mary Jones LPN; Yolanda Forrester...