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I know student athletes and coaches are working hard over the summer to prepare for the best athletic year in Georgia history. The GADA wishes the best of luck to all as they prepare for next school year. Remember to check the Athletic Director Checklist/Reminders for June, July and August as they provide a valuable resource to keep up with everything over the summer months.
It is the intent of the GADA to provide all Georgia Athletic Directors the opportunity to get quality educational opportunities with LTI classes offered during the State Conference in Savannah. We are already in the process of working on the 2014 conference offerings. With that in mind start making plans to attend the next conference.
Good luck to all with your summer work and best wishes as we all get ready for the 2013-14 school year
Gary Long, CMAA
GADA President
Director of Athletics
Mill Creek High School
LATEST NEWS
4/24/13
Johnny Seabrooks to be inducted in the Albany Sports Hall of Fame
by Mike Phillips - Albany Herald
ALBANY — His roots are in Florida, but Johnny Seabrooks’ life has been right here in Albany, where the Good Life City has been even better since he arrived.
Seabrooks, who was born and raised in Montecello, Fla., has dug both his feet — and his heart — into the Georgia clay, where he spent 28 years coaching in high schools and 40 years in one capacity or another overseeing high school athletes.
On Monday night, Seabrooks will be inducted into the Albany Sports Hall of Fame, and many feel it’s long overdue for a man who has given his life to the youth of Southwest Georgia and specifically to Dougherty County.
“It’s an honor, a great honor,’’ said Seabrooks as he conducted an interview with The Herald Friday, rushing between the college signing of Westover distance runner Ericka Taylor and overseeing physicals for the county.
The man who is synonymous with track & field in Albany seems to always be on the run.
He has been the Dougherty County Director of Athletics since 2002 as a long winding road brought him to his current position — a road that started when Seabrooks arrived here as a coach after starting out in Brooks County, where he ran a one-man recreational facility from the back of his Volkswagen as a roving physical education teacher in Quitman and later as a legendary coach in the Dougherty County school district at both Monroe and Dougherty high schools.
It’s been 40 years since he graduated from Albany State University, where he was a four-year letterman and star in both football and track & field. He graduated with a bachelor of science in health and physical education in 1974 and later earned a masters in education, administration and supervision from ASU in 1999. Read more...
4/19/13
4/5/13
2013 Conference Photos
3/28/13
Regions Directors Cup Scoring Update
Effective immediately (3/28/13),
full points will be given to all schools earning GHSA state points in
all sports that are GHSA sanctioned. In years past if a sport did not
have a minimum of 65 schools in a classification participating in that
sport then only half points were given. The only exception to the "all
sports that are sanctioned by the GHSA earn full points" phrase is
wrestling. The GADA will still only award points to a school in one
wrestling event (Dual or Traditional). If a school participates in both
Duals and Traditional State wrestling tournaments it will only be
awarded the highest of the two scores.
1/3/13
GA well represented at 2012 NIAAA Annual Conference
The National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association conference in San Antonio, Texas was one of the best conferences the NIAAA has had in a long time. There was so much pertinent information available to help those Athletic Administrators be the leaders in their field. There were over 38 LTC classes offered as well as 42 workshops, presented by Athletic Directors from across the country. All 50 states were represented.
San Antonio was a fantastic place for the conference, as there was so much history and sites to see in what little down time we had. Of course, the San Antonio river meanders through the city, called the River Walk, which provides a breath taking area for shopping, restaurants and good southern old Texas hospitality. While there, one of our own, Tommy Marshall of The Marist School, was recognized with the Distinguished Service Award at the Awards banquet on Tuesday night, December 18th. There was a large contingent of Athletic Directors from the State of Georgia present, with over 33 in attendance.
Pictured L-R: Chandler Yount (Asst. AD Marist), Rendell Jackson (Program Mgr for Middle Schools-Atlanta Public Schools), Natasha Harrigan (AD Mays), Jasper Jewell (Program Mgr for High Schools-Atlanta Public Schools), Jeff Beggs Dir. of Athletics-Atlanta Public Schools), Tommy Marshall (AD Marist), Joe Sanfillippo (AD White Co.), David Brooks (AD Carrollton), Mike Carswell (GADA President, Calvary Day), Bob Ward (Ret. AD Westminster)
