Athletics News

“A bittersweet day for me,” was the way South Georgia Technical College Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach James Frey described the signing day for graduating Lady Jets Alyssa Nieves and Mari Hill. Nieves and Hill both signed Division I scholarships to continue their academic and athletic careers.   Nieves signed a letter of intent to play her junior and senior seasons at Morehead State University in Morehead, Kentucky, and Mari Hill, a transfer from Tallahassee...

South Georgia Technical College students in the Caterpillar Think Big Heavy Equipment Diesel Technology program were fond of wearing special dark blue t-shirts imprinted with a gaggle of geese and the words “Fly High Goose” in memory of their classmate Adrian “Goose” Johnson, a 19-year old student from Stockton, AL, who passed away earlier this year in Alabama from a tragic car accident.   The t-shirts were designed to honor the memory of their classmate and also raise...

South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves was honored with the 2019 Outstanding Eagle Scout Award at a special recognition dinner Tuesday night at the South Georgia Technical College John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center in front of over 150 individuals.   Judge Joe Bishop welcomed everyone to the event and Rev. Betty Lee Scott gave the invocation. Twenty-four Eagle Scouts participated in the Presentation of Colors and the Pledge of Allegiance. Matt...

Jamera Mitchell of Eastman had a dream - a dream to attend college after graduation from high school. The REACH Georgia program helped make that dream become a reality recently when she earned her associate degree of applied science in Culinary Arts from South Georgia Technical College in Americus, GA.   Mitchell was the first REACH Georgia student to enroll and graduate from a Technical College System of Georgia institution. She enrolled at South Georgia Technical College in...

Georgetown, Ga - South Georgia Technical College Admissions Director Whitney Crisp attended the Quitman County High School Academic and Career signing day at the Quitman County High School Bussey-Kendrick Gymnasium in Georgetown, GA recently.   Two students from Quitman County High School have been accepted and plan to attend South Georgia Technical College in Americus Fall semester. Tekelya Thornton has been accepted into the South Georgia Technical College Cosmetology...

Americus, GA – Caterpillar dealers from Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee hosted a dinner for the South Georgia Technical College graduates receiving an Associate of Applied Technology Degree in Heavy Equipment Dealers Service Technology and Electric Power Generation Heavy Equipment Dealers Service Technology prior to the college’s 2019 Spring Commencement Ceremony.   Approximately 250 Caterpillar officials, students, family members and SGTC officials...

The South Georgia Technical College John Deere Tech program ushered in 13 new technicians to the field at its annual graduation banquet recently. The students were awarded with a completion award plaque from John Deere for completing the two-year program, and later went on to receive their Associate of Applied Science Degree in agricultural technology later that night at the college’s graduation ceremony.  Students from Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina were represented in the...

  The proud past and promising future of South Georgia Technical College was on full display recently at the college’s Spring 2019 commencement ceremony Thursday, May 2nd at 6 p.m. in the James S. Peters Gymnasium on the Americus campus in front of a capacity crowd. South Georgia Tech is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its first graduating class this year. The college’s first group of graduates were honored in 1949.   Approximately 175 students, 34 of which were either...

Americus, GA – The South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Foundation paid tribute to over 200 of its foundation supporters at its annual Donor Appreciation Dinner in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the South Georgia Technical College campus recently.   South Georgia Technical College is celebrating the 70th anniversary of its first graduating class from 1949 and the SGTC Foundation Donor Appreciation Dinner utilized the theme of “Planting Seeds.” Seventy...

South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) practical nursing advisory committee met recently on the college’s Americus campus to discuss the current state of the program and the industry as a whole. The six members met in a McClain Building classroom to discuss the topics over breakfast. The purpose of the advisory committee is to assist South Georgia Tech faculty and staff in continuous quality improvement of the college’s program. SGTC’s Americus campus nursing instructors...

ATLANTA, Ga - Sumter County’s Café Campesino, Crisp County’s Norbord GA, LLC division, Macon County’s International Paper Flint River Mill, and Webster County’s Interfor Preston Division were nominated by South Georgia Technical College to be recognized at the 2019 Georgia Manufacturing Appreciation Week Manufacturers of the Year Governor’s Award Luncheon at the Georgia International Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia, recently. They were among an elite group of the top...

South Georgia Technical College will be hosting its 2019 spring graduation exercise Thursday, May 2nd at 6 p.m. in the James S. Peters Gymnasium on the Americus campus.   Kelsi Cannon of Ellaville, GA, South Georgia Technical College’s 2019 Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) winner, is scheduled to be the guest speaker at the event. The SGTC practical nursing student will address the graduates and their families, fellow students, faculty, and staff during the...