School News
Sumner Named Gatorade Player of the Year
Will Sumner, who graduated from Woodstock High School in May, recently was named the 2021-22 Gatorade Georgia Boys Track and Field Player of the Year. Sumner’s honors include winning the 400-meter dash at the Georgia Class 7A state meet with a personal best time of 45.78 seconds, setting a state record and leading Woodstock’s team to win the 4x800 relay and fourth place overall. Sumner won the 400 at the Brooks PR Invitational, with a time of 45.90. At the Music City Distance Carnival in June, he clocked a personal best of 1 minute, 46.53 seconds in the 800, which was No. 2 in the nation, No. 3 in U.S. prep (high school) track and field history and only 0.08 seconds behind the national record.
Cherokee Mountain Education Graduates Grow
In June, 77 seniors graduated from Cherokee Mountain Education Charter High School, more than doubling the number of students (32) who earned high school diplomas last year. The Cherokee campus opened in August 2020 in Canton, with approximately 40 students. Now, the campus serves nearly 600. The afternoon and evening classes at the public high school allow students to achieve Georgia high school diplomas. In addition to its full-time students, students who take a class or classes with Cherokee Mountain part time and transfer the completed credit(s) back to the high school in which they are enrolled full time also are served. The curriculum is self-paced and mastery based, meaning students progress through courses at their own pace.
Cherokee Mountain Education Charter High School class of 2022.
Graduate Earns East West Bank Scholarship Recent Etowah graduate Ella Daugherty is the winner of the 2022 East West Bank $2,500 Scholarship, an annual partnership agreement between the bank and the school board. Daugherty will use the scholarship at the University of Georgia, where she plans to study business management and health policy and administration to pursue a career as a hospital administrator.
TOWNELAKER | August 2022
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