New political science professor Dr. Jason Rich once appeared on an episode of “Sex and the City,” but his true passion lies in international politics. Following his time as a graduate student at the University of Connecticut, Rich moved to Milledgeville because it reminded him of his previous undergraduate college.
Any sport that claims a guy with the name “Patches O’Houlihan” as its founder (fictional or otherwise) must have some redeeming qualities.
Enter dodgeball, a blast from the bruising past of high school gym class.
“We’re trying to increase the number of unique sports we offer so we cater to more of the student body,” program assistant Stephanie Jergel said.
The GCSU fishing team is making huge strides after only two years of competition. Recently selected No. 6 nationally by FLW Outdoors magazine, the club team is starting its third season as a Top 10 squad.
The publication used a nationwide survey of anglers to place GCSU only behind much-larger Division I schools N.
So you want to be No. 1 in college basketball? Maybe if you’re cutting down the nets in the championship game, and we’re talking about the final season polls. But right now, being voted No. 1 in the polls is the equivalent of being tossed into a shark tank with a fresh cut on your leg.
The trip started this past Friday and ended up back in Milledgeville on Tuesday at 3:30 a.m.
The path traveled: 540 miles to Montevallo, Ala., and back from Friday to early Sunday morning. Then, 650 miles to St. Augustine, Fla., and back from Sunday night to early Tuesday morning.
Outfitted in skeleton bones and colorful mohawks, GCSU’s Sassy Cats dance team stepped its way to ninth place in the Open Hip Hop Division of the UDA National Championships, its best-ever finish. The result was particularly impressive as it was the highest a Division II team had ever placed against the larger Division I schools.
