Athletics News

South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets Alexia Dizeko (5)was named the WBCAA Two-Year College Player of the Year. Fanta Gassama, 22. was named a WBCA All-American and Luana Leite, 1, was an Honorable Mention All-American.Atlanta, GA – South Georgia Technical College sophomore forward Alexia Dizeko is the 2023 Women’s Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Two-Year College Player of the Year and headlines the WBCA Two-Year College Coaches’ All-America team.  Alexia Dizeko, 5, was...

SGTC Head coach James Frey is shown above with assistant coaches Olivia Melvin and Ricca Jackson watching the NJCAA Division I Women’s National Tournament Selection Show with players and supporters Sunday night.Copy of the NJCAA Women’s Division 1 National Tournament Brackets with the SGTC Lady Jets sitting in the top spot. The Lady Jets play Thursday, March 23rd at 3 p.m.    The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets remained in the number one spot in the National Junior College...

South Georgia Technical College President John Watford is shown above with SGTC Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach James Frey and the 2022 – 2023 Southeast District Conference champion Lady Jets.   The number one-ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets captured the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Southeast District Conference title and earned their seventh straight trip to the NJCAA National Tournament with a 99 – 57 win over head coach Kelly Britsky...

John Welch is shown above Brantley Vansickle, Ashlyn Childs, and Traneisha Burns helping prepare them for their SkillsUSA competitions.   Five South Georgia Technical College Criminal Justice students are competing in the Georgia SkillsUSA competition in Atlanta this week along with other SGTC students from Aviation, Cosmetology, and Barbering programs.    All of the SGTC students have been putting in extra work with their instructors to prepare for the state competition.  Criminal Justice...

South Georgia Tech’s Aaron Pitts, 4, and Nathan Wilson, 20, were both named to the GCAA Men’s Division I All-Region teams.   South Georgia Technical College Jets Aaron Pitts and Nathan Wilson were selected by the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) Men’s Division I basketball coaches as members of the GCAA’s All-Region teams for the 2022 – 2023 season.    Sophomore Aaron Pitts was selected to the GCAA First Team All-Region spot and sophomore Nathan Wilson was named to...

Morris Council, Jr., and Cynthia Tookes Council are glad they choose South Georgia Tech to secure an education that led to great careers for them and their families.   Over 40-years have passed since Morris Council, Jr., and Cynthia Tookes Council enrolled at South Georgia Tech to learn the skills needed for a career and they both agree that was a “great decision!!!”    South Georgia Technical College is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and thousands of individuals have taken...

Kalin Fonseca, 5, was the top scorer for the Jets in the NJCAA Region XVII Quarterfinals in Waycross against South Georgia State.Waycross, GA – The South Georgia Technical College Jets dropped an 84 – 69 decision to South Georgia State College in the quarterfinal round of National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XVII tournament in Waycross.  South Georgia State will now advance to the NJCAA Region XVII semi-final round in Rome, GA on Friday, March 10th to face Albany...

Flex-Tec Plant Manager Rick Barnes is shown above ( l to r) with Joseph Jolly, Flex-Tec scholarship winner, along with SGTC President Dr. John Watford and Industrial Systems Instructor Patrick Owen.   Joseph Jolly of Nashville, TN, an Industrial Mechanical and Systems Technology student, was awarded the South Georgia Technical College Foundation’s Flex-Tec – The Wiring Source scholarship at South Georgia Technical College recently.      SGTC President Dr. John Watford, SGTC Vice...

SGTC Commissioner Greg Dozier (right) is shown above with SGTC EAGLE student Zackary Mincey of Buena Vista (center) and Dr. Cayanna Good, TCSG Assistant Commissioner for Adult Education(left).Atlanta, GA – South Georgia Technical College’s 2023 Exceptional Adult Georgian in Literacy Education (EAGLE) student Zackary Mincey of Buena Vista and Adult Education Instructor Tonya Visage of Americus attended the Technical College System of Georgia Dinah Culbreath Wayne EAGLE Institute at the...

   South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets head coach James Frey was selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) Division 1 women’s basketball Coach of the Year for 2022 – 2023 and sophomore forward Alexia Dizeko earned the GCAA Player of the Year honors.  The Lady Jets ended the 2022 -2023 regular season as the top ranked National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division 1 women’s team.    Sophomore guard Luana Leite was named as the GCAA Defensive...

GCAA Commissioner David Elder (right) is shown above presenting SGTC Lady Jets head coach James Frey with the Coach of the Year plaque.South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford is shown above with the NJCAA Region XVII Champion Lady Jets and their coaching staff.   The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) top-ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets kept their 31-game winning streak alive with a 68 – 52 win over the 24th nationally ranked East...

The SGTC Jets will travel to Waycross to face South Georgia State College on Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Waycross in the NJCAA Region 17 quarter-finals.   The South Georgia Technical College Jets have earned the right to advance to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region XVII end of the season tournament with a seventh-place ranking.  They will travel to Waycross on Tuesday, March 7th to face South Georgia State College at 7 p.m.    The Jets finished the regular season with...