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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...

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...

NJCAA Region XVII Tournament brackets set for Friday and Saturday, February 28th and 29th in the Hangar at South Georgia Technical College.    The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets captured their fifth consecutive Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) conference title and finished the season with an undefeated conference record for the second consecutive year.  It is only the third time in the history of the program that a South Georgia Technical College women’s team has...

Justin Johnson (5) and Shamari Tyson, (1) were the top two scorers for the Jets and Lady Jets over the weekend.   Three games and three wins were recorded against conference opponents by the South Georgia Technical College Jets and Lady Jets over the past few days.  The Jets ended a three game losing streak by putting it all together to take a 94 – 56 win over Southern Crescent Tech and then roared back to stage a 60 – 54 win over the nationally ranked South Georgia State Hawks.  Both...

Five Lady Jets were ranked in the NJCAA national statistics for rebounds, field goal percentage shooting, free throw percentage shooting, assists, blocks, and steals. Shown (l to r) are Femme Sikuzani (34), Shamari Tyson (1), Niya Goudelock, 3, Anna McKendree (14), and Yasriyyah Wazeerund-Din (13). The Lady Jets remained in the 15th position in the national rankings this week.   The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets remained in the 15th spot in the National Junior College Athletic...

Lady Jets Shamari Tyson, 1, was selected as GCAA Player of the Week for the past two weeks.     South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets sophomore Shamari Tyson was selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association Division I women’s basketball Player of the Week for the past two weeks.  This is the eighth time that the nationally ranked Lady Jets have had a Player of the Week in the past 13 weeks and the fourth time for Shamari Tyson.    Tyson helped the Lady Jets overcome a...

South Georgia Technical College sophomore Shamari Tyson, 1, led the Lady Jets in scoring with 29 points and also hit a last second shot to give her team the 68 – 66 victory over Georgia Highlands.     “The Lady Jets refused to lose,” said South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford after the South Georgia Tech Lady Jets overcame a 22-point deficit to clinch their fifth consecutive Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) regular season conference title in a 68...

Four Lady Jets ranked in the NJCAA national statistics for rebounds, field goal percentage shooting, free throw percentage shooting, assists, blocks, and steals. Shown (l to r) are Femme Sikuzani (34), Shamari Tyson (1), Anna McKendree (14) and Yasriyyah Wazeerund-Din (13). The Lady Jets moved up one position to 15th in the nation.   For the first time in five weeks, the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets have been able to move up a spot in the National Junior College Athletic...

South Georgia Tech’s Shamari Tyson, 1, had 20 points for the Lady Jets. She was four of six from the three-point line and and two of two from the free throw line.   The South Georgia Technical College Jets and Lady Jets hosted Andrew College during its Alumni – Sophomore Day celebration Saturday before a large crowd.  The nationally ranked Lady Jets put on a magnificent display on their way to a 101 – 54 Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) conference win while the Jets came...

Shown above are the Lady Jets sophomore players that were presented with a framed poster of their time on the court at South Georgia Technical College.     Fourteen sophomores from the 2019 – 2020 South Georgia Technical College Jets and Lady Jets intercollegiate basketball teams were honored between games as part of the South Georgia Tech Alumni-Sophomore Celebration held recently in the James S. Peters gymnasium.  Each of the players were recognized by SGTC President Dr. John Watford and...

South Georgia Tech’s Yasriyya Wazeerud-Din (13) had 27 points for the Lady Jets against Central Georgia Tech.MACON, Ga – The South Georgia Technical College Jets and Lady Jets traveled to Macon to take on Central Georgia Technical College Wednesday night and the Lady Jets came away with their eighth consecutive win in an 84 – 73 contest but the Jets lost another close one, 69 – 63.    “It was a good conference win for the Lady Jets,” said South Georgia Technical College Athletic...