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Bianca herself in her sophomore year at Lovett when the girls track team won the state.
Class of 2000
The Atlanta Track Club celebrated its 50th Anniversary and held the All-Metro Track & Field Team Awards Banquet on May 30. It turned out to be a great night for Lovett, as well! Lovett track & field coach and alumnus Charlie Finch ’94 was named AA Coach of the Year! In addition, Olympian Adam Nelson ’93 was the special guest speaker; Olympian Dwight Phillips (nephew of Edward Robinson, longtime member of Lovett’s security staff) was inducted into the Georgia Track & Field Hall of Fame; and rising senior Khadejah Jackson and rising junior Nicole Teague were both named Most Valuable Female Athletes.
Charlie Finch, Lovett’s associate director of athletics and head track and field coach, was named AA Coach of the Year by the Atlanta Track Club on the heels of a stellar year for both the boys and girls varsity teams. Lovett’s girls track team claimed the school’s first title in the sport since 1996. The Lions posted 92 points, outdistancing Thomasville (48), Wesleyan (42), and Westminster (30.5).
Class of 1996
Brent Hedin currently works for Deloitte as a manager in talent business advisory for the Southeast tax practice. He and his wife, Clayton, live in Roswell, and welcomed their first child, Hampton William, in December. Bethany Plunkett Weisser and her husband, Frank, live in the Southern
Alps of Germany, where Frank is an instructor at the NATO School in Oberammergau. They now have three children and enjoy every minute of life in Europe.
Class of 1998
St. Mary’s High School (Maryland) head track and field coach Bianca White Lynch had a very successful outdoor track and field season with both the boys (11-1) and girls (7-5) teams. The boys placed 2nd at the conference championship and won the AAAA East Region. Bianca was named St. Mary’s County Boys Coach of the Year and Southern Maryland Athletic Conference Boys Coach of the Year. Ironically, a 10th grade member of her team placed 2nd in the high hurdles at the state and set a new school record—a feat executed by
Stephanie and Kyle George welcomed their first baby, Rachel, in January 2014. In May 2013, Kyle received his M.S. in information security from the College of Computing at Georgia Tech while working at Goldman Sachs. In June 2014, Kyle accepted a new position at D. E. Shaw & Co., a hedge fund in Manhattan, as a vice president in technology. The George family currently resides in Hoboken, N.J. In collaboration with Get This Gallery, MOCA GA recently exhibited Shara Hughes’ Guess You Had to Be There as part of the museum’s 2012/13 Working Artist Project. Hughes left Atlanta to study in New York, Denmark, and Rhode Island before returning in 2008. With bright colors and textures, Hughes combines interiors, landscapes, and human relationships into her work, which she has shown in New York and across Europe. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote of her work, “Chock full of juicy color and frantic, busy action, Shara Hughes’ paintings are assaults on the eyes. Her 10 works on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia… feel very much like visual puzzle pieces one needs time and patience to assemble into a whole.”
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