Saturday, July 21, 2012
Coach Heath Terris tells us about the team's amazing win.
The Dacula Athletic Association 11U baseball team recently finished second in the World Series in Panama. “It was amazing,” head coach Heath Terris said proudly. “It means a whole lot of different things for the boys, and memories of a lifetime for the parents. We saw 11 kids grow up in a week.” This young team battled through many obstacles to pull off their amazing win. “We had to battle through tropical storm Betty Sunday and Monday,” Terris explained. “Then we lost our opening game on Thursday evening, so we had to go through the losers bracket. The first game in the losers bracket we were down four runs. I just told the team no matter what happens in our last at bat, keep your heads up high, in our book you guys are champions and we …
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Head Coach Andy Mitchell tells us about their amazing season.
The 10U Mill Creek Hawks baseball team had an amazing season, finishing 18-0. “It was just an unbelievable season,” said head coach Andy Mitchell. “We have a great group of kids and a great group of families. We took every game for what it was, and did not really think about going undefeated, we just played our hardest. It was a really special season for the kids and they all had a great time.” The team then went into the GGBL tournament and went 6-0 to be the Gwinnett County 10U Champions. “We played some great opponents in the series,” Mitchell said, “and like the regular season we just kept focusing on the game that was in front of us. Our kids learned a lot over the season; they learned never to give up, never take an opponent for …
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Head coach Holly Isserstedt tells us about a great community of competition, friends and summer fun.
The Hamilton Mill Hammerheads are not just a swim team, they are a group of over 200 young swimmers who gather together with friends for a little competition and to experience an amazing community atmosphere that fully supports their children in a good old fashion fun summer sport. “Our youngest swimmers are four years old and our oldest swimmers are 18, so we have a wide range of kids in our community that are swimming,” head coach Holly Isserstedt said. “We are a group with lots of siblings, friends and neighbors.” Summer league is very different from swimming for a yearlong organization or even at the middle school or high school level because it is mostly for fun. “It is meant to be a social experience and a way for them to have …
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Director of dance Suzanne Kross shares some exciting news for the dance department and the competitive dance team.
The Mill Creek Dance Department offers students a creative fine arts elective option, and gives selected students the chance to excel in competition. This year, students in both classes and on the competitive dance team have had impressive success stories. Dance is an elective option within the fine arts department for students at Mill Creek High School. Classes consist of ballet, jazz and modern dance. In addition to learning dance, students learn dance history, anatomy and nutrition throughout the semester. Students also perform in a fall and spring concert. “Fine arts electives are an important part of a student’s curriculum,” Mill Creek’s director of dance Suzanne Kross said. “The dance department has 110 students in the program that …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
This opportunity to give back to the community was a no brainer for Head Coach Jason Guzzardo.
The Dacula High School varsity women’s soccer team recently had the opportunity to serve as leaders and role models to a very special group of aspiring young soccer player. Good friends Coach Jason Guzzardo, head coach of the DHS women’s varsity soccer team, and Tim Steimer, volunteer coordinator of the TOPSoccer (The Outreach Program for Soccer) program at Dacula Soccer Club, found a way to bring their two soccer teams together for the benefit of both teams. “When Tim Steimer contacted myself and Coach Burrell (head coach of the DHS men’s soccer team) and said that he was looking for some teams to volunteer, I thought it was a great opportunity for the kids to give back to the local community and the local soccer club,” Guzzardo said. …
Monday, March 26, 2012
Dacula Soccer Club teams participate in Silent Saturday -- a different, fun, engaging and somewhat controversial program.
On most Saturdays, the Rabbit Hill Park soccer fields are filled with lots of noise from parents cheering and guiding to the coaches directing and managing plays. However on Saturday, March 24, the fields were silent. They were silent that is, except for the sound of the players playing their own game of soccer. The first and foremost goal of "Silent Saturday" was to do something different, fun and engaging for all. “We want to engage our kids, engage our parents, and do something different,” Kesha Prokes from Dacula Soccer Club said. “Another reason for this program was just for the kids to have fun. Silent Saturday is just one of several different things that we wanted to do as a fun club event. The Dacula Soccer Club has grown …
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Rising seniors on the varsity football team give back to supporters by serving as great educational role models for their young fans.
For National Read Across America Day on Friday March 2, the 11th grade Dacula High School football players took part in a program called "Real Men Read." The rising seniors put on their jerseys and served as great role models by showing some of their smaller supporters at Dacula, Mulberry, and Alcova elementary schools the importance of reading and education. “We started a program called 'Real Men Read' where our rising seniors go to the three local cluster elementary schools in their game jerseys to read to students,” Coach Jared Zito said. “They arrive early and greet students as they come to school, help with the morning announcements and then go into the classrooms to read and promote reading to the elementary students.” Zito started …
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Excitement and team morale rise after outstanding performance in recent regional tournament.
Mill Creek High School’s new hockey team gave fans an exciting performance in their recent regional tournament. According to head coach Todd Galucki, Mill Creek started slowly the first day against some powerhouse teams. But they won a dramatic 6-5 comeback victory early on the second day, which earned them a final game against Grayson. Grayson had dominated Mill Creek in two earlier games this season. Mill Creek fought Grayson hard, pulling within 3-2 midway through the game, before finally succumbing to Grayson, 5-2. More importantly, this tournament provided a boost in team morale and a boost in fan excitement for this new hockey team. “But in defeat,” coach Galucki said, “the team came together on that final day and gave their family…
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Coach Dana Crawford believes strongly in teamwork.
The Dacula Heat was down two points in the first half of their first game. There was something that just wasn’t working on the court. The team had only practiced together a few times before the game, so coach Dana Crawford had an idea, and called a time out. “We put our hands together,” Crawford explained. “I made them look at each other and tell each other, ‘I’ve got your back'.” After the time out, the team got it together and played a totally different game. They ended up winning the game by 16 points. Coach Crawford knew that they needed to work together. “Our team motto is 'You have to gel to excel',” Crawford said. These 11- and 12-year-olds are learning what it means to work together and succeed together as a team. “Everybody has a …
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Hebron head coach Will Cantrell focuses on making his players great on and off the court.
The game of basketball presents many different scenarios that are representative of what players will go through in life. This season, the Hebron Christian Academy basketball team will learn that the same skills they use to handle adversity in basketball can be used off the court as well. “In basketball, there are so many parallels that we can draw on and connect to what Jesus says about life,” head coach Will Cantrell explains. “We can parallel that into what we are currently going through on the basketball court and off.” Coach Cantrell’s overall coaching philosophy is to help develop young men so they can be ambassadors for Christ. “At a place like Hebron you have the leeway to talk about Christ, and how He interacts with basketball…
Leigh Townsend
9:34 am on Saturday, April 14, 2012
Awesome group pf young ladies!!! You make your community proud. Congrats on your record this season of 12-2, 5-1 (thus far) and for being crowned Region Runner-Ups!!! This team shows what it means to pour alot of sweat and tears into something and come out stronger for it. Good luck at state!!!! more ›