sports & recreation FACTBOOK 2011
Chattahoochee Tech offering local athletes another choice to play Marietta junior college soon to offer nine sports programs By Carlton D. White cwhite@mdjonline.com
Staff / Jon-Michael Sullivan
Devin Davis, a graduate of Marietta High School, and David Pollock, a graduate of Hillgrove High School, are extending their football playing careers at Chattahoochee Tech’s club team while they complete their first two years of college.
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In an effort to grow its collegiate footprint and provide itself more exposure, Chattahoochee Technical College, which already had club-level athletics, went a step further and expanded its athletics and recreation departments to include junior college men’s and women’s cross country teams in 2005. Since then, the Golden Eagles added men’s and women’s track and field at the junior college level, followed by men’s basketball beginning with the 2010-11 season. Women’s basketball is expected to debut as a junior college program as part of the 2011-
12 season, and club football, which started in 2010, is expected to become a junior college sport in the next few years. With future plans to possibly include adding baseball, fastpitch softball and volleyball, Chattahoochee Tech will soon offer student-athletes an opportunity to prove themselves at the junior college level before advancing to four-year Division I, II, III and NAIA schools. “Education is the first priority for all of our student-athletes,” said Dr. Ron Dulaney, Associate Provost for Athletics. “But, sports adds another avenue for our students and opens up campus life. See Choice, Page 99
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