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   The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets climbed to the 14th spot, their highest this season, in the 2020 National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) women’s basketball national rankings last poll of the season prior to the NJCAA national tournament in Lubbock Texas, March 17th – 21st.    The Lady Jets are currently 29 – 2 overall and captured the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) regular season title with a perfect 17 – 0 conference record.  The...

     South Georgia Technical College Jets sophomores Justin Johnson and Merdy Bata were honored by the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) Division I men’s basketball coaches recently by being selected to serve on the All-Region teams for their performance on the court during the 2019 – 2020 season.    Johnson, a 6’ 7” guard from Ft. Lauderdale, FL, was recognized as a second-team All-Region player in the GCAA and Merdy Bata, a 7’ 0” sophomore pivot from...

   Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association Commissioner David Elder and South Georgia Technical College Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach James Frey presented College of Coastal Georgia former basketball head coach and Director of Athletics Gerald Cox with a plaque signifying his induction into the newly created GCAA Hall of Fame.     Cox and former South Georgia State’s men’s baseball head coach Scott Simms were selected as the inaugural inductees of the GCAA newly created...

Macon, GA – Five South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center Phi Beta Lambda (PBL) students represented the SGTC Crisp County PBL Chapter at District Competition at Central Georgia Technical College in Macon recently and took top honors.    Kennedy Mathews of Vienna, Samantha Campbell of Cordele, Hannah Weaver of Rochelle, Christina Jordan of Fitzgerald, and Nacoria Dawson of Cordele represented South Georgia Technical College at the District competition and came away with three...

    The South Georgia Technical College Jets came away with a 71 – 61 victory over Gordon State College Saturday.  The Jets have now won three of their last four games in the regular season and finished the year in 7th place in the Georgia College Athletic Association standings.  The Jets are 6 – 10 in conference and 13 – 17 overall.    As the seventh ranked team in the GCAA for the 2019 – 2020 season, the South Georgia Technical College Jets will advance to the NJCAA Region XVII...

   The nationally ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets defeated Brandon Harrell and the Georgia Highlands Lady Chargers 69 - 63 in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XVII Tournament finals Saturday to capture their fourth consecutive NJCAA Region XVII title.  That win gives the Lady Jets the opportunity to travel to Spartanburg, South Carolina, to face Spartanburg Methodist College in the NJCAA District J game on Saturday, March 7th at 1 p.m. and...

South Georgia Technical College will host a Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) course March 13-14 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the college’s Crisp County Center in Cordele. The program is based on the principles of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) and teaches civilian tactical EMS to aid any EMS called to respond to a mass casualty or active shooter event. Upon successful completion of the course, students will receive NAEMT TECC Course Completion Certificates and wallet...

South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) Accounting and Business Technology advisory committee met recently in the Odom Center Conference Room on the college’s Americus campus to discuss several aspects of the industry over lunch. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Tech faculty and staff in continuous quality improvement of the accounting and business technology programs. SGTC’s Accounting instructor Brenda Boone provided the committee with updates and...

   In a battle between the GCAA Co-Coaches of the Year, South Georgia Technical College Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach James Frey showed exactly why he has been named Coach of the Year or Co-Coach of the year six of the eight years he has been coaching at South Georgia Technical College.    Frey and his nationally ranked Lady Jets rolled to an impressive 89 – 65 victory over the fourth-seeded East Georgia State College Lady Bobcats and co-coach of the year Warren Goosby in...

   South Georgia Technical College Athletic Director and Lady Jets head basketball coach James Frey was selected as the women’s Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) Division I Co-Coach of the Year for 2019 – 2020 and Lady Jets sophomore Shamari Tyson earned the Player of the Year honors, announced GCAA Commissioner David Elder.  Tyson and two other members of the 2019 – 2020 Lady Jets were also selected to the GCAA first and second team All-Region teams.     The GCAA...

   South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center Admissions Coordinator Katrice Taylor joined instructors Brandy Nipper, Wanda Bishop and Brad Harnum in participating in the Crisp County Learning Center’s Career Awareness Day.    The event was sponsored by the Crisp County Industrial Development Council.  Katrice Taylor, SGTC Medical Assisting Instructor Brandy Nipper, Criminal Justice Instructor Wanda Bishop and EMT instructor Brad Harnum presented to approximately 50 sixth...

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy, Col. Eric Bryant, was the featured speaker at South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) annual African American History Program. The event took place before a large audience in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on SGTC’s Americus campus. “We make history every day,” Bryant said in his remarks. “As we travel on this journey, it’s important that we inspire and encourage one another.” A 1993 graduate of Americus...