Bring on the Community with Peach State Cornhole

By Kristen Eleveld

There are lots of ways to spend your weeknights, but only one that will help you polish your handeye coordination skills, allow you to meet new friends, and even become a champion. Yes, of course, we are talking about the game of cornhole. And no one does it better than Peach State Cornhole, founded by Gwinnett’s own Nick Boyers.

Back in 2013, Nick had just moved to Gwinnett County from Ohio, where cornhole is a popular pastime. Nick is all about community, so he decided to see if anyone was interested in forming some teams to play for fun. He wound up with eight teams in the Suwanee area, formed by a love of creating new relationships and trying something new.

Now, this small, local cornhole league has grown into hundreds of teams covering the entire state – and people can’t get enough of it.

“We never knew it would get this big!” said Nick. “This was founded out of a desire to form new relationships, and now we are in thirty locations across the state.”

Nick and his team encourage anyone to play, whether you are an expert at tossing a bean bag or whether you just heard of cornhole this week. Divided into three divisions – the expert Ringers, the intermediate make veterans agile, thoughtful leaders on any team. While the pressures they face on active duty are very different from those they’ll face in civilian life, veterans can be relied on to bring decisiveness and poise to even the most stressful environments.

Former service members are steady, focused, and equipped to make tough decisions in some of the most stressful situations. As crisis managers, they know how to manage stress, deescalate, and provide balance in a challenging environment. This advanced degree of “grace under pressure” allows former service members to push through when a project doesn’t go according to plan, find a solution, and lead a team to success. These are just a few of the core skills veterans bring to their jobs outside of military service. (BPT)

More information at Military.Microsoft.com

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