The Fall edition of GHC’s second year of League Sports ended November 9th as the women’s flag football ended their run in the NIRSA Region II championship tournament. The Chargers competed well against Georgia Southern and Georgia State, but ultimately lost both, having played Southern in both pool play and the knockout round.
The sophomore campaign of GHC League Sports was a year of firsts for the programs: women’s volleyball earned the first win in the program’s short history, men’s soccer completed its first season in the Southeast Collegiate Soccer Alliance, Running made its return to GHC and women’s flag football made their debut.
Men’s soccer finished 1-5, the lone victory coming against Clemson. The Chargers played home matches against GA Tech and UGA- the latter being a Friday match under the lights at Old Cass High Stadium- and traveled to Furman, Emory and Tech.
Women’s volleyball finished their sophomore campaign with a record of 2-12, competing against NCAA and NAIA JV squads, NCCAA teams and Gadsden State. The Chargers earned their first wins of the program, and capped off the season with a pair of matches in Florida. Twelve of the sixteen players will be returning in the Spring to compete in beach volleyball.
GHC Running made a return to GHC as both a men’s and women’s team competed in local races. The squad teamed up with Wire 2 Wire Running in Cartersville and competed in several of their races both in Cartersville and Rome. The teams also hosted the Dollars for Scholars 5k at the Floyd Campus in September.
Making its debut at GHC was women’s flag football. Flag football is the fastest growing sport in Georgia among high schools, and both the Atlanta Falcons and local colleges have jumped on-board. GHC fielded a women’s team of thirteen players and sent them to Georgia Southern University in November for the NIRSA Region II tournament. The Chargers, representing the smallest college in the tournament and only one with two-year degrees, finished 7th out of 9 teams.
All four teams will return to action, in some form, in the Spring.
