Outstanding student-athletes from DeKalb County High School were recognized in a ceremony in front of the entire student body, Tuesday morning, at the school. The TSSAA Athletic Academic awards were handed out to both individual student athletes and their respective programs, which recognized outstanding performance in the classroom, in addition to their participation in high school athletics.
Eleven DCHS athletic programs were honored with the Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Team Award, which recognized teams with a collective grade-point average between 3.25 and 4.0. They included: Lady Tiger Golf (3.58), Tiger Golf (3.62) Lady Tiger Soccer (3.27), Football Cheerleaders (3.50), Basketball Cheerleaders (3.67) Lady Tiger Basketball (3.57), Tiger Basketball (3.36), Lady Tiger Tennis (3.63), Tiger Tennis (3.96), Tigerette Softball (3.54), and Tiger Baseball (3.31)
Two more athletic programs received the Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award, for a collective team GPA of 3.0 to 3.24. They included Tiger Football (3.11) and Tiger Soccer (3.02)
Meanwhile, several individual student athletes received the Student-Athlete Award of Merit, for maintaining a GPA between 3.5 and 4.0 while participating in high school athletics.
Those recipients included:
DCHS Lady Tiger Golf – Shay Sullivan and Kalli Mitchell
Tiger Golf – Logan Clark, Austin Garrett, Grant James, and Payne Denman
Lady Tiger Soccer – Victoria Bennett, Nicole Burger, Kayla Hershman, Candace Lester, Megan Merriman, Erica Neely, Katie Nixon, Jessica Richards, Cynthia Woodward, Wesley Burchfield, Turner Hobby, Josh Lester, and Myra Tramel.
Football Cheerleading- Macy Felts, Krysta Ferrell, Avarie Maynard, Quincie Winchester, Lela Ambrose, Taylor Cantrell, Tiffany Cantrell, Erin Colwell, Heather Hughes, and Kidman Puckett
DCHS Football -Matthew Lawrence, Hunter Poteete, Zach Thompson, Russell Ambrose, Anderson Webb, Ryan Leiser, Sebastian Phillips, Thomas West, Shane Hickman, Justin Poteete, Randal Hansard, Nick Lester, Josh Emberton, Jake Odom, Hunter Stewart, Hunter Stanfield, Elicia Cantrell, and Bradley Pack
DCHS Basketball Cheerleaders – Rosemary Apple, Alison Curtis, Caroline Carter, Kendra Foutch, Amanda Ours, Camry White, Tiffini Hendrixson, Sydney Robinson, and Ashlee Whitehead.
Lady Tiger Basketball -Victoria Bennett, Cynthia Woodward, Martha Webb, Jessica Garrison, Brooke Hutchings, Alex Meadows, Olivia Norton, Lindsey Hardin, Grant James, Christian Atnip, Makenzie Gibson, and Chelsea Cantrell
Tiger Basketball – Hunter Poteete, Tyler Kent, Seth Willoughby, Weston Rhody, Jeff Miller, Russell Ambrose, Kara Young, Brooke Pack, Erin Colwell, Wesley Mason, Payne Denman, Shane Shalley, Ethan Hale, Hunter Stewart, Luke Willoughby, and Alyssa Young
Tiger Soccer – Mason Merriman, Wesley Burchfield, Weston Rhody, Josh Lester, Nathan Neal, Ryan Leiser, Turner Hobby, Nicole Burger, and Candace Lester
Lady Tiger Tennis – Megan Osborne, Megan Merriman, Whitney Gann, Rachel Hendrixson, Niokah Johnson, Alyssa Young, and Jessica Garrison
Tiger Tennis -Justin Poteete, Caleb Gash, Riley Young, Reeves Bellar, Tyler Dunaway, Nick Goff, and Seth Willoughby
Tigerette Softball – Victoria Bennett, Kara Young, Cynthia Woodward, Olivia Norton, Martha Webb, Brooke Hutchings, Alex Meadows, Kayla Self, and Makenzie Gibson.
Tiger Baseball – Tyler Caldwell, Tyler Kent, Sebastian Phillips, Wesley Blair, Shane Salley, and Daulton Fish.
TSSAA Team Awards:
Lady Tiger Golf
Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award 3.25 -4.0
Team GPA 3.58
Kalli Mitchell, Keeli Bullard, Shay Sullivan
Coach Chris Vance
Tiger Golf
TSSAA Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award 3.25- 4.0
Team GPA 3.62
Ian Johnson, Logan Clark, Keith Ferrell, Payne Denman, Austin Garrett, Grant James
Coach Chris Vance
Lady Tiger Soccer
TSSAA Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award 3.25-4.0
Team GPA 3.27
Denise Armendariz, Azalia Arroyo, Nikki Bass, Victoria Bennett, Nicole Burger, Alisha Chapman, Samantha Cockrum, Jodi Curtis, Carla Gilbert, Kayla Hershman, Daryl Hobby, Chelsea Holden, Felicia Ingram, Mica Knight, Sasha Knowles, Monse Leon, Candace Lester, Megan Merriman, Erica Neely, Katie Nixon, Jessica Richards, Kara Schneider, Cynthia Woodward, Francisco Rodriguez, Wesley Burchfield, Turner Hobby, Josh Lester, Cameron Lester, Myra Tramel, Kayla Ellis.
Coach Dylan Kleparek
Football Cheerleading
TSSAA Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Team 3.25- 4.0
Team GPA 3.5
Macy Felts, Krysta Ferrell, Avarie Maynard, April Hale, Kristen Smartt, Quincie Winchester, Lela Ambrose, Taylor Cantrell, Tiffany Cantrell, Erin Colwell, Heather Hughes, Johnna Roller, Katelyn Goodwin, Jasmine Dimas, Kidman Puckett
Coach Amanda Fuller
Basketball Cheerleading
TSSAA Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award 3.25-4.0
Team GPA 3.67
Rosemary Apple, Jessica Cook, Alison Curtis, Caroline Carter, Kendra Foutch, Amanda Ours, Allyson Judkins, Cora Beth Rhody, Sydney Robinson, Ashlee Whitehead, Perri Carter, Camry White, Tiffini Hendrixson.
Coach Walteen Parker
Lady Tiger Basketball
TSSAA Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award 3.25-4.0
Team GPA 3.57
Victoria Bennett, Cynthia Woodward, Elicia Cantrell, Kristina Stephens, Morgan Page, Jaylen Garrett, Mercedes Luna, Martha Webb, Nikki Bass, Makenzi Gibson, Jessica Garrison, Brooke Hutchins, Katie England, Alex Meadows, Chelsea Cantrell, Olivia Norton, Lyndsey Hardin, Christian Atnip, Grant James
Coach Mike Shockley
Tiger Basketball
TSSAA Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award 3.25- 4.0
Team GPA 3.36
Hunter Poteete, Tyler Kent, Payne Denman, Shane Salley, Cody Atnip, Seth Willoughby, Jeff Miller, Wesley Mason, Ethan Hale, Abram Edwards, Cody Myrick, Hunter Stewart, Travon Johnson, Nick Underhill, J.J. Herriott, Andrew Atnip, Justin France, Alex Cripps, Weston Rhody, Daniel Stanley, Luke Willoughby, Russell Ambrose, Ryan Dodd, Kara Young, Brooke Pack, Hillary Bowman, Alyssa Young, Erin Colwell
Coach Lynus Martin
Lady Tiger Tennis
TSSAA Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award 3.25-4.0
Team GPA 3.63
Megan Osborne, Megan Merriman, Jessica Walden, Whitney Gann, Jenny Hale, Rachel Hendrixson, Niokah Johnson, Alyssa Young, Jessica Garrison, Kelli Bullard, Azalia Arroya
Coach Boyd Cantrell
Tiger Tennis
TSSAA Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award 3.25-4.0
Team GPA 3.96
Justin Poteete, Caleb Gash, Riley Young, Reeves Bellar, Tyler Dunaway, Nick Goff, Seth Willoughby.
Coach Boyd Cantrell
Tigerette Softball
TSSAA Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award 3.25- 4.0
Team GPA 3.54
Brittney Armour, Kayla Fish, Victoria Bennett, Shay Sullivan, Sara West, Kara Young, Jaylen Garrett, Morgan Page, Kristian Puckett, Kristina Stephens, Cynthia Woodward, Keeli Bullard, Josie Culwell, Makenzie Gibson, Olivia Norton, Martha Webb
Coach Danny Bond
Tiger Baseball
TSSAA Distinguished Scholastic Achievement Award 3.25- 4.0
Team GPA 3.31
Shane Salley, Destry Wiggins, Jesse Sutton, Tyler Caldwell, Cody Atnip, Matt Giles, Daniel Stanley, Travis Neal, Dylan Roller, Garrett Hoke, McCullough Wallace, Daulton Fish, Wesley Blair, Chris Powell, Andrew Atnip, Corey Atnip
Coach Scott Odom
Tiger Football
TSSAA Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award 3.0-3.24
Team GPA 3.11
Abram Edwards, Brandon Atnip, Hunter Stewart, John Curtis, Matthew Lawrence, Travon Johnson, Hunter Poteete, Matthew Giles, Cody Poss, Zach Thompson, Dillion Brown, Russell Ambrose, Matthew Collier, Dane Holeton, Zach Taylor, Anderson Webb, Ryan Leiser, Kevin Kijanski, J.J. Herriott, Justin Moore, Sebastian Phillips, Skyler Songer, Devin Thomas, Thomas West, Shane Hickman, Chris Odom, Justin Poteete, Matt Crowe, Tony Schellinburger, Chris Bolin, Josh Emberton, Justin Vandergriff, Hunter Stanfield, Jakob Craven, Alex Campbell, Randal Hansard, Allan Lack, Jake Odom, Logan Roller, Nick Lester, Sabrina Griffin, Elicia Cantrell, Bradley Pack
Coach Steve Trapp
Tiger Soccer
TSSAA Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award 3.0-3.24
Team GPA 3.02
Dylan Reagan, Ian Johnson, Luis Richards, Mason Merriman, Thomas Beltz, Cameron Lester, Jesus Rivera, Martin Perez, Nathan Turner, Wesley Burchfield, Weston Rhody, Brad Michaels, Cody Myrick, Raul Ramirez, Francisco Rodriguez, John Curtis, Josh Lester, Nathan Neal, Ryan Leiser, Travis Menix, Turner Hobby, Nicole Burger, Candace Lester, Nikki Bass, Daryl Hobby, Sasha Knowles
Coach Dylan Kleparek
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