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Alexia Dizeko led the Lady Jets with 20 points and 12 rebounds against Central Georgia Tech.   The top ranked National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets started slowly but overcame a five-point deficit late in the first quarter to capture an 82 – 53 decision over Central Georgia Technical College in a Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) conference game Monday night.    This was the Lady Jets 26th consecutive victory in the...

Shown above are the five Lady Jets featured individually in the NJCAA rankings for their individual efforts. They include: Luana Leite, 1, Loes Rozing, 2, Alexia Dizeko, 5, and Fanta Gassama, 23.     The South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets captured the first-place position in the National Junior College Athletic Association’s (NJCAA) Division I women’s basketball poll for the fifth consecutive week and received all 10 first place votes based on their 25 – 1 record.      The...

South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky and Allene Reeves son, Kevin Reeves (l) and daughter, Mandy Reeves Young (r), are shown above presenting a scholarship check to 2023 GOAL winner Tredarrian Colbert (c).   South Georgia Technical College President Emeritus Sparky Reeves and his wife, Allene, established an endowed fund with the South Georgia Technical College Foundation to honor the college’s Georgia Occupational Award of Leadership (GOAL) student each year. ...

Aaron Pitts scored 30 points and pulled down eight rebounds for the Jets in their loss to Southern Crescent.Griffin, GA – South Georgia Technical College sophomore guard Aaron Pitts scored 30 points in the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) game against Southern Crescent Technical College in Griffin Saturday, but the Jets still fell three points shy of a win in the 83 – 80 decision.    This was the South Georgia Technical College Jets seventh straight conference loss and...

SGTC freshman center Maeve Fotsa Fofou, 22, was the leading scorer for the Lady Jets. She had 18 points and 17 rebounds.   The South Georgia Technical College top-ranked Lady Jets came away with an 82 – 68 victory against Andrew College in a rescheduled Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) game Thursday night in the Hangar.  The win moved the Lady Jets to 12 – 0 and 25 – 1.    South Georgia Technical College Athletic Director and Lady Jets head coach James Frey utilized the...

South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford (l) and SGTC Vice President of Institutional Advancement and Executive Director of the SGTC Foundation, Su Ann Bird (r), is shown above accepting the Sumter EMC Foundation check from Sumter EMC’s Whitney Johnson (c) in support of the SGTC Foundation’s annual TechForce Drive. Americus, GA —The Sumter Electric Membership Corporation Foundation, Inc. awarded a grant in the amount of $5,000.00 to the South Georgia Technical College...

Gary Prince accepts new position at SGTC.   South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford announced that Gary Prince of Leesburg has been appointed as the SGTC Chief Information Officer over Technology. Prince will report to SGTC Vice President of Administrative Affairs Lea Coe.  The new appointment is effective immediately.    Prince has been working full-time with South Georgia Technical College since 2001 as the Information Systems Administrator, Technical Support Specialist...

Alexia Dizeko, 5, was the leading scorer and rebounds for the Lady Jets against Georgia Highlands. She had 19 points and 14 rebounds.Rome, GA – The number one nationally ranked South Georgia Technical College Lady Jets secured their 24th consecutive win with a 62 – 49 Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) victory over Georgia Highlands College and former Lady Jet head coach Brandon Harrell in Rome last night to move to 11 – 0 and 24 – 1.    Georgia Highlands, which...

SGTC’s Aaron Pitts, 4, had 38 points for the Jets in the overtime loss to South Georgia State College.   South Georgia Technical College Jets sophomore forward Aaron Pitts scored 38 points to lead the Jets to an impressive comeback against the second ranked South Georgia State Hawks and force the Georgia Collegiate Athletic Association (GCAA) game into overtime.  However, South Georgia State outscored the Jets 23 – 12 in overtime to capture the 87 – 76 victory.    “I was very proud...

Gregory W. Harris, Sr. is a 1986 graduate of South Georgia Tech.   Gregory W. Harris, Sr., who was born and raised in Americus, graduated from the South Georgia Tech’s Business Equipment Technology Program in 1986 under retired instructor Harold (Buddy) Holloman and because of the excellent technical education he received, Harris has been able to work and thrive in that career for over 36 years.    “Because of the outstanding training I received at South Georgia Technical College, here...

Americus Rotary Club member and Past President Don Smith (l) is shown above presenting a check from the Rotary Club to Tredarrian Colbert (r), who was selected as the SGTC 2023 GOAL student of the year.     Americus Rotary Club member and Past President Don Smith presented South Georgia Technical College barbering student Tredarrian Colbert of Americus with a stipend recently on behalf of the Americus Rotary Club.  Colbert was recognized as the college’s 2023 Georgia Occupational...

SGTC has second highest enrollment percentage growth in TCSG for Fall Semester 2022.   South Georgia Technical College recorded the second highest percentage of enrollment growth for Fall semester in the Technical College System of Georgia and led the system in full-time enrollment growth percentage and full-time equivalent (FTE) percentage growth, announced South Georgia Technical College President Dr. John Watford. The John M. Pope Center at South Georgia Technical College    South...