Athletics News

South Georgia Tech’s Justin Johnson (5) and Merdy Bata (21) earn GCAA recognition for their play on the court this season.     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,...

Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association Commissioner David Elder is shown above making the presentation to retired College of Coastal Georgia Athletic Director and men’s basketball coach Gerald Cox, Lady Jets head coach James Frey and Coach Cox’s son.   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...

SGTC PBL students are shown above with their awards following the PBL District competition.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...

Justin Johnson, 5, scored 17 points to help the Jets secure a 71 – 61 win over Gordon State College.    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...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford is shown above with the 2019 – 2020 Region XVII Champion Lady Jets and head coach James Frey and Assistant Coaches Demetrius Colson and Ciarra Edwards.   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...

TECC logoSouth 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...

Pictured are members of the SGTC advisory committee for accounting and business technology: Dr. Andrea Oates, SGTC Academic Dean; April Hilliard, SGTC Academic Affairs Administrative Assistant; Willette Smith, Macon State Prison; Deatrice Harris, Sumter YDC; Brenda Boone, SGTC Accounting instructor; and Jamie Campbell, Wells Fargo Bank.South Georgia Technical College’s (SGTC) Accounting and Business Technology advisory committee met recently in the Odom Center Conference Room on the...

South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets head coach James Frey lets out a sly smile after his team has the win in hand against East Georgia State College in the NJCAA Region XVII tournament semi-finals.   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...

SGTC Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach James Frey was named the Division I GCAA Co-Coach of the Year for 2019 – 2020 and Lady Jets Shamari Tyson (1), Yasriyyah Wazeerud-Din, (13), and Anna McKendree, (14) all earned GCAA All-Region honors for their play this season.   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...

SGTC Admission Coordinator Katrice Taylor is shown above with SGTC’s Brandy Nipper, Wanda Bishop and Brad Harnum at the Crisp County Learning Center Career Awareness Day.   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...

Sumter County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy, Col. Eric Bryant, speaks at the recent SGTC African American History Program.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...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford is shown above with Taylor County CTAE Director Michele Kimble.     Approximately 100 Taylor County High School CTAE students, instructors and administrators attended the South Georgia Technical College Phi Beta Lambda Career, Technical, and Agricultural Education Day at South Georgia Technical College recently.    South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford was the special guest speaker at the event.   The students...