2017 graduate of the University of North Georgia.
Current sports editor at the Rockdale-Newton Citizen serving the Conyers/Covington area of Georgia. Hired to run the sports department at the age of 23.
Heading into the 2019-20 season, Rockdale County head girls basketball coach Sean Turley had placed high expectations on freshmen Lia Edwards, Nylah Williams and Madison Presha, who were all going to be expected to contribute right away.
Less than a month after Christmas 2017, on an abnormally warm Sunday morning in Conyers, Layla Samuel's life changed forever. The Salem junior was in the middle of her high school basketball season and was only a couple of weeks away from starting her third season as a wing on the Seminoles' soccer team, but those plans would soon have to be placed on hold.
There is only one player in the entire world that can say they were a part of the first NCAA men's basketball championship team ever to have its title stripped, a part of Georgia State's biggest upset in school history and a part of the national news cycle for sustaining arguably the worst injury ever captured on live television.
ROME - There is beauty in the struggle. Heritage's Game 2 loss to Pope - an 11-1 drubbing in six innings - was a struggle all around for the Patriots, who had hopes of sweeping Pope to claim its first-ever baseball state championship Wednesday evening at State Mutual Stadium following a 7-2 Game 1 victory.
ATLANTA - It has been 10 years since Brice Butler last laced up his cleats for the Norcross Blue Devils. Butler, now a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys, had always dreamed of playing a professional football game in his home state of Georgia.
BUFORD - Mikayla Klerk suited up Saturday for her first-ever half-mile swim meet at Lake Lanier as a competitor in Atlanta's annual Swim Across America event. But it wasn't just an average race for the oldest sibling in the Klerk family. Mikayla was racing in place of her younger brother Kyle, who is an osteosarcoma bone cancer survivor.
ATLANTA - Miguel Almiron hadn't made an appearance for Atlanta United since suffering an injury in the 17th minute against Montreal almost exactly one month ago. United won only once without Almiron in the starting lineup in the four games without him, but all of that was forgotten when the Paraguayan entered the game in the 61st minute in front of 71,874 fans, which broke the club's own MLS record for single-game attendance.
ATHENS - On what many figured to be a sure-fire run play on third-and-1 from the Mississippi State 41-yard line, Jake Fromm dropped back and floated a ball over the middle of the field to a wide-open Bulldog.
SNELLVILLE - The winner of a baseball game usually comes down to two things: good pitching and clutch hitting. That's exactly what the Brookwood Broncos got in a must-win Game 2 on Wednesday night.
FORT VALLEY - The top-ranked Greater Atlanta Christian Spartans offense managed just 13 points against a very tough Peach County Trojan defense, but quarterback Davis Mills' ability to rely on all of his receivers was the difference in the game on offense.