Albany-Area YMCA Stingrays head to state competition
Just a few years after disappearing from the local sports scene, the Albany Area YMCA Stingrays are making a successful return.
Just a few years after disappearing from the local sports scene, the Albany Area YMCA Stingrays are making a successful return.
Jake McCrae has spent the first few days of preseason practice doing something he hasn't had to do much the past two summers.
The basketballs won't stop bouncing inside Lee County High School's current gym when the school's newest athletic facility opens this fall.
Telvin Hodo didn't come to Terrell County hoping to build a respectable basketball team.
Art Anderson didn't spend his first month as Terrell County High School's new football coach dwelling on last season's 1-9 record.
When the first basketball bounces across the hardwood floor inside Westover High School's new gymnasium this fall, it will signal much more than the opening of a new building.
Before the wins come, before the playoffs are discussed and before the bright lights of Friday night return, football teams are built in the quiet weeks of summer.
For about six minutes Friday afternoon, Lee County looked every bit like the fast, physical basketball team head coach Kirven Davis hopes it will become.
Dean Fabrizio wasn't interested in wins and losses this week.
For 41 summers, Lea Henry has watched generations of Southwest Georgia children walk into the gym with a basketball in their hands and leave with something much more.