Athletics News

Shelton State Community College head coach Madonna Thompson is shown above talking with the Lady Bucs during a timeout in the upset over Eastern Florida.Americus, GA - The unranked National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Shelton State Bucs upset the NJCAA’s top-ranked Eastern Florida Titans 60 – 44 on Sunday in the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets Holiday Classic that saw four of the top 12 women’s basketball teams in the NJCAA Division I league competing n the...

Fanta Gassama, 23, was the leading scorer for the Lady Jets in the match-up against Pensacola.   The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets showed the 12th ranked Pensacola State College Lady Pirates why they are currently ranked 4th in the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division 1 women’s basketball rankings with a 68 – 57 win in the pre-cursor game of the Lady Jets Holiday Classic basketball tournament in the Hangar Thursday night.    “I thought we played...

Camyrn James, 24, of Macon scored 35 points for the Lady Jets in wins over Central Georgia Tech and Tallahassee Community College on the road over the Holiday break.   The National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division I 4th nationally ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets captured wins against Central Georgia Technical College and Tallahassee Community College over the holidays to bring a 14-game win steak into a match-up against the 12th ranked Pensacola Lady...

Camryn James, 24, named Women’s Basketball GCAA Player of the Week.   South Georgia Technical College’s Camryn James has been selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 Women’s Basketball player of the week in the last poll of 2022.  James scored 17 points and had 10 rebounds and three blocks in a 59 – 46 victory over Central Georgia Tech in Macon, GA.    James, a 6’ 2” sophomore forward from Macon, Georgia,  has helped lead the Lady Jets to a 4th...

Shown above are the NJCAA 4th ranked Lady Jets sophomores: Luana Leite, 1; Loes Rozing, 2; Da’Nae Williams, 3; Alexia Dizeko, 5; Susana Yepes, 10; Mame Thiaw, 12: Laurie Calixte, 13; Fanta Gassama, 23; and Camryn James, 24.    Holiday flight cancelations caused a change in the South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets Holiday Classic women’s basketball tournament this weekend including the game scheduled for tonight, Thursday, December 29th at 6 p.m.  Instead of facing Snow College from Ephriam,...

Shown above are the NJCAA 4th ranked Lady Jets.    Three of the top four National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Division 1 Women’s Basketball teams will be participating in the Lady Jets Holiday Classic at South Georgia Technical College in Americus, GA, December 30th – January 1st.    Eastern Florida State, the top ranked team in the NJCAA Division 1 Women’s Standings, as well as the currently number two team in the nation, Gulf Coast Community College, will join the...

SGTC High Performance Engines – Motorsports Instructor Kevin Beaver is shown above talking with a student about the new Motorcycle Maintenance program that will begin at SGTC Spring Semester. Classes start January 11th and it is not too late to apply.   South Georgia Technical College will begin offering a new one-semester Motorcycle Maintenance Technician technical certificate of credit Spring Semester, which begins January 11th, 2023.  Students can apply now.    “The program is being...

Fanta Gassama, 23, named GCAA Player of the Week   South Georgia Technical College’s Fanta Gassama has been selected as the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 Women’s Basketball player of the week.  Gassama averaged 18.3 points and 13.3 rebounds in three wins for the Lady Jets last week.    Gassama, a 6’ 1” sophomore center from Mataro Spain, has helped lead the Lady Jets to a 4th place national ranking in the National Junior College Athletic Association and a...

Twelve graduates of the South Georgia Technical College (SGTC) Licensed Practical Nursing (LPN) program received their nursing pins in a recent ceremony in the John M. Pope Industrial Technology Center on the Americus campus. A crowd of family, friends, administrators, and instructors attended the event to show their support as the students participated in the traditional pinning ritual. Receiving their pins were Jasmine Brown of Albany, pinned by SGTC grad Mary Jones LPN; Yolanda Forrester...

Karen Bloodworth is shown above outside her classroom where she taught both marketing management and accounting classes at the SGTC Crisp County Center.   South Georgia Technical College Crisp County Center Marketing Management and Accounting Instructor Karen Bloodworth has decided to retire from teaching after spending 15 years helping students gain the skills needed to enter the workforce.   “I have enjoyed my time at South Georgia Tech.  It is a great school and provides great...

Fanta Gassama, 23, had a double-double night against Central Georgia Tech with 19 points and 19 rebounds.Macon, GA – The 4th nationally ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets had a very sluggish first half against the 1 – 5 Central Georgia Technical College Titans in Macon in a Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) conference match-up but managed to take the 59 – 46 victory.    “We did not play well at all in the first half,” said South Georgia Technical College...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford (center) is shown above with Jake and Margie Everett and the new recipients of the Rose Ann Everett Scholarships. Shown (l to r) are SGTC Welding Instructor Ted Eschmann, Rose Ann Everett Scholarship winner and welding student Sebastian Shattles, Jake Everett, President Watford, Margie Everett with SGTC John Deere Tech student and Rose Ann Everett scholarship winner Mason Dill with his John Deere Tech instructor Matthew Burks.  ...