Lady Jets News

   Twelve members of the South Georgia Technical College Jets and Lady Jets 2020 – 2021 basketball teams have earned Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) Division I All-Academic Team honors, announced GCAA Executive Director David Elder.     All nine of the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets sophomores were named to the All-Academic Team and sophomores Jalen Reynolds, Nikola Sasaroga, and Jordan Stephens were selected to represent the Jets.  South Georgia Technical...

Five students from South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) competed in the virtual state-level SkillsUSA competitions recently and three students received gold medals in their competitions.  These three students will advance to the SkillsUSA National competitions.  All five students, their instructors, and SkillsUSA advisors were recognized during the SkillsUSA Postsecondary virtual awards ceremony in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus recently. The three...

   The South Georgia Technical College Jets came from behind with the help of Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) Player of the Year Jalen Reynolds and Freshman of the Year Will Johnson to take a narrow 69 – 64 win over the Southern Crescent Tigers in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region 17 tournament quarterfinals.    The victory will allow the third seeded SGTC Jets to advance to the NJCAA Region 17 semifinal round that will be played in Waycross...

GCAA Freshman of the Year Will Johnston led the Jets in scoring with 18 points against Southern Crescent in the NJCAA Region 17 quarterfinals.

   South Georgia Technical College’s Jalen Reynolds, 6’ 7” sophomore forward from Darien, Georgia, was selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s (GCAA) Men’s Division I basketball Player of the Year for 2021, announced GCAA Commissioner David Elder.  He will be leading his team in the NJCAA Region 17 quarterfinal tournament tonight at 6 p.m. in the Hangar.  The third ranked Jets will host the sixth-place Southern Crescent Tigers.    Two other members of the third...

Rome, GA - The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets earned their fifth consecutive NJCAA Region 17 tournament championship but it took a last second three-point shot by Imani McNeal to force the game into overtime and allow the Lady Jets to pull off a hard fought 80 - 71 overtime victory over Brandon Harrell and his GCAA regular season champion Georgia Highlands Chargers.    Sophomore 6’ 5” Center Femme Sikuzani from GOMA, DRC, was named as the NJCAA Region 17 Tournament’s Most...

Rome, GA-   Sophomore guard Veronica Charles made one of two free throws with 1.9 seconds remaining on the clock to give the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets a narrow 63 – 60 win over East Georgia State College in the semi-final round of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Region 17 tournament at Georgia Highlands College in Rome, GA. The Lady Jets will face Georgia Highlands in the finals at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 3rd at Georgia Highlands.    “This...

   The South Georgia Technical College Jets earned the opportunity to host a first round or quarterfinal game in the NJCAA Region 17 end of the season tournament.  The Jets finished the season in third place and will host sixth ranked Southern Crescent Technical College at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 6th in the hangar on the SGTC Americus campus.    The Jets, under interim head coach Chris Ballauer and assistant coach Jaren Harris, finished the regular season with an 11 – 5 GCAA conference...

South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) will host a 10-hour Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) general industry course on June 2-3 at the college’s Crisp County Center in Cordele. Greg Turner, CSP Authorized Trainer, will be the instructor. Topics covered in the course include: an introduction to OSHA; emergency action planning; hazard communication planning; walking and working surfaces; hearing conservation program; lockout/tagout; and machine guarding. The training...

Courses available 100 percent online, providing students more options, access, and flexibility Americus, GA—South Georgia Technical College isproviding students access to more online courses through a statewide platform called “eCampus”. This Technical College System of Georgia (TCSG) initiative provides students the ability to enroll in online courses offered by any TCSG college, allowing students access to programs that may not be available at their home technical college. Upon...

The Crisp County Center of South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) is offering a forklift operator certification training class on April 28 from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The class will cover forklift operation, maintenance, and safety requirements. Training will consist of practical skills and testing as well as a written exam. Participants in the class must be at least 18 years of age. The cost of the class is $125 and pre-registration is required. Space in the course is extremely...

      The Georgia EMC Foremen and Supervisors’ Association Electrical Lineworker Scholarship was presented to Garrett Earls of Macon recently by the South Georgia Technical College Foundation.  Earls was enrolled in the SGTC Electrical Lineworker Apprenticeship program.    Terry Lewis of Colquitt EMC and President of the Georgia EMC Foremen and Supervisors’ Association contacted the SGTC Foundation on behalf of the organization in 2019 to establish a scholarship for the SGTC...