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The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets moved to 2 – 0 in the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) women’s basketball standings after taking an impressive 98 – 63 victory over the previously GCAA unbeaten Albany Tech Lady Titans. The Lady Jets are leading the GCAA Division 1 standings with a 2 – 0 record followed by East Georgia State College with a 1 – 0 record. Andrew College and Albany Tech are 1 – 1 on the season, Central Georgia Tech is 0 – 1 and...

The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets struggled but still managed to take a 74 – 63 Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) conference win against Central Georgia Technical College in their opening conference match-up. The Jets were not as fortunate. They fell to 0 – 1 in the conference and 4 – 11 overall after dropping a 94 – 74 decision to the Central Georgia Tech Titans. “It was very sloppy but we found a way to win,” said South Georgia Technical...

South Georgia Technical College’s Cosmetology Instructor Dorothea Lusane McKenzie was recognized by SGTC President Emeritus Sparky Reeves’ wife, Allene Reeves, recently after McKenzie was named the SGTC 2026 Outstanding Instructor of the Year. The late Sparky Reeves and his wife, Allene, established an endowed fund with the South Georgia Technical College Foundation to honor the college’s Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year and Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL)...

South Georgia Technical College Cosmetology Instructor Dorothea Lusane McKenzie was presented with a check from Synovus in Americus recently after she was selected as the SGTC Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year for 2026. Each year Synovus or the former SB&T branch presents the winner of the South Georgia Technical College Instructor of the Year award with a stipend. This year South Georgia Technical College Cosmetology Instructor Dorothea McKenzie was selected for that...

Niceville, FL – The South Georgia Technical College Jets dropped a 93 – 78 decision to the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) fifth ranked Northwest Florida State College Raiders over the weekend to fall to 4 – 10 on the season. Northwest Florida State College is currently 17 – 1 on the season and were only up 42 – 35 over the Jets at the end of the first half of play. They outscored the Jets, 51 – 43, in the second half to coast to the 93 – 78...

South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Cosmetology Instructor Dorothea Lusane McKenzie was selected as the 2026 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year during a recent breakfast ceremony in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the college’s Americus campus. SGTC President Dr. John Watford presented the award. In addition to McKenzie, seven other instructors were nominated and named finalists for the award. The other instructors’ competing for the honor included: ...

The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets finished out the Lady Jets Holiday Classic tournament and the 2025 year with an impressive 76 – 66 win over the Eastern Florida Titans in Tuesday’s final game in the Hangar. They are 5 – 10 on the season. Earlier in the day, the National Junior College Athletic Association’s (NJCAA) 11th ranked Shelton State Lady Bucks upset the previously undefeated and number two team in the nation, Chipola College Lady Indians, 72 – 57. ...

The Chipola Lady Indians demonstrated why they are ranked second in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) national rankings Monday night when they moved to 14 – 0 on the season in an 83 – 46 win over the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets in the SGTC Holiday Classic. In the opening game Monday night, 11th ranked Shelton state defeated St. Petersburg Community College, 77 – 56, and then Eastern Florida came from behind to defeat Cleveland Community...

Freshman point guard Candice Ganga from Paris, France, scored four points in the final minute and a half to allow the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets overcome a 63 – 64 deficit and secure a 67 – 64 victory over the St. Petersburg Titans in the Lady Jets Holiday Classic Sunday night. The win stopped a four-game losing streak for the Lady Jets, which are now 4 – 9 on the season. St. Petersburg is 3 – 8. The Lady Jets will have their work cut out for them tonight as...

Americus, GA – South Georgia Technical College Criminal Justice Technology graduate Jeffery Thomas Gordy of Buena Vista, was awarded the Smarr-Smith Law Enforcement/Criminal Justice scholarship recently by the South Georgia Technical College Foundation. The Smarr-Smith endowed scholarship at South Georgia Technical College was created in memory of fallen Americus Police Officer Nicholas R. Smarr and Georgia Southwestern State University Campus Safety Officer Jody C. Smith. The...

Americus, GA —The Sumter Electric Membership Corporation Foundation, Inc. awarded a grant in the amount of $2,500.00 to the South Georgia Technical College Foundation, Inc. Proceeds from the grant will be used to continue the Sumter EMC Foundation endowed scholarship fund for students. Dr. John Watford, South Georgia Technical College President and Su Ann Bird, Vice President for Institutional Advancement and SGTC Foundation Executive Director accepted the donation for the SGTC...

Sean Reed of Americus was awarded the Smallwood-Sondron Law Enforcement Academy Scholarship at the conclusion of the South Georgia Technical College Law Enforcement Academy Class 25 – 01 training. Lou Crouch of Elko endowed this scholarship for the South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Law Enforcement Academy in memory of Peach County Sheriff’s Office Deputies Patrick Sondron and Daryl Smallwood. The two deputies died in the line of duty in November 2016. Reed...