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Prince Avenue Christian senior Jordyn Smith scored her 1,000th career point in last Saturday’s loss to Eagle’s Landing Christian. Smith, who had 18 points in the game, became the second Lady Wolverine to score 1,000 career points. Haley Soles accomplished it in 2012. For the full story, see page 4. For more photos, see theoconeeleader.com.
Looking forward to a more ordinary year BY ROB PEECHER
The Oconee Leader
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A year ago, Sara Lewis– diagnosed with End Stage Renal Failure – was looking for a kidney donor. The journey in front of her would happen faster than she or her family expected, and throughout the experience family and friends rallied around her. Now, as 2016 begins, Sara is looking forward to a new journey, more ordinary, perhaps, but certainly more welcome. Sara’s dad, Bobby Lewis, summed up easily the difference of starting 2016 versus starting 2015. “It’s very comforting to watch all this go away,” Bobby said. “It is a whole different feel to this year. Last year we were worry about surgery; this year we are worrying about graduation and what school she will go to. Surgery just seems like so long ago at this point.” Since she was in seventh grade, Sara knew she would one day need a new kidney. Her parents, Bobby and Kim Lewis of Bishop, hoped it was a process that could be put off until Sara was out of high school. But late in 2014, doctors told the family that they needed to find a donor and Sara was going to have to have a new kidney sooner rather than later. Their goal was to find a donor and have the surgery before Sara’s kidneys failed and she needed to go on dialysis. This time last year, Kim was testing to see if she could be a potential donor, but the Lewis family did not
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For Sara Lewis (left) and her mom Kim, 2016 promises to be an exciting year, but more ordinary than 2015 when Sara started the year knowing she would soon be getting a new kidney.
yet know whether Sara’s mom would be able to donate a kidney to her daughter. They wanted to schedule Sara’s surgery for June when school was out. It seemed the entire county was rallying to support Sara and her family. There were lots of fundraisers – many sponsored by her school and club soccer teams – to raise money for the Children’s Organ Transplant Association in Sara’s honor. Sara, meanwhile, felt fine through Christmas break and into the start of the New Year. She played for the Oconee County High
School girls’ soccer team in the beginning of the season. By late February or early March, Kim knew that she was a match and would donate the kidney, but their plans wait to have the surgery in June were abandoned when Sara crashed and had to go on dialysis for three weeks. “That was the biggest blessing,” Bobby said, “that she didn’t have to be on dialysis for very long.” Kim said they went to a pediatric dialysis center where they were told that Sara had the fastest turnaround time from starting dialysis to going to surgery that they’d ever
seen. “It was a real eye-opener to see how many kids are going through it,” Kim said. As she begins thisnew year, with the surgery behind her, Sara’s priorities are what one might expect for a senior in high school. She’s one of the captains on the school soccer team, and with the season starting soon, she’s thinking about the dynamics of the team and her last season of high school soccer. EvoShield is designing a piece of protective equipment that Sara can wear to protect her new kidney, and she acknowledges that her playtime will probably be limited. Nevertheless, she’s excited about returning to the game. “I’m really looking forward to getting back to playing and getting back in shape,” she said. She’s thinking about graduation and looking forward to the freedom that college offers. She’s trying to decide between Berry College and the University of Georgia – two schools she would like to attend in the fall and she’s been accepted to both. At the time of the surgery, with both Kim and Sara in the hospital and later recuperating at home, Bobby said he was able to rely on Sara’s siblings to pitch in and help. She has an older brother and sister, Austin and Courtney, as well as a ‘Sara Lewis’ Page 3
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BY MIKE SPRAYBERRY The Oconee Leader
The Oconee County Board of Education was recently designated an “Exemplary Board,” the highest level of a threeyear, three-tiered recognition program, by the Georgia School Boards Association (GSBA). The recognition program is based on the state board of education’s standards for effective governance and requires honorees to first meet or exceed criteria as a “Quality Board” and then a “Distinguished Board” in the years prior to becoming an “Exemplary Board.” The Oconee County Board of Education reached the first two levels the last two years. “This is a new awards program created by the Georgia School Boards Association and our Board has been named a Quality Board and a Distinguished Board,” said Dr. Jason Branch, Superintendent of Oconee County Schools. “This is the first year the GSBA has recognized
boards as Exemplary. This is the first time you could have earned it. Ours is one of about 30 out of 180 school boards in the state (to be named Exemplary), so it is fairly prestigious.” The GSBA has an application process for each level of recognition and detailed rubric outlining the differences between Quality, Distinguished and Exemplary boards. Branch highlighted some of the criteria set forth by the GSBA. “Your school system has to have a strategic plan in place and your strategic plan has to be aligned with your school improvement plans at the school level. The board has to have incorporated the Georgia Vision Project, documents and procedures that all school systems are working on to make sure we’re all working in the same direction. “The Board is required to go above and beyond the required 9 hours of board training. Our members have 15 hours of training. This was a process that
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Oconee Schools Superintendent Jason Branch (center) presents the award to school board member Kim Argo. Pictured left to right are: Mark Thomas, Kim Argo, Supt. Branch, Tim Burgess, Wayne Bagley and Chairman Tom Odom.
takes some time to do. It is a really significant award for the Board of Education.” While the last two levels of distinction lasted one year each, Branch said that the Exemplary title may last up to two years. “This process will carry on and we will be Exemplary for the next two years, as long as we continue the work. We agree to provide
support to other Boards. If others have need for support or guidance through certain things, because we’re now an Exemplary Board, the Georgia Board of Education might suggest that they talk to us. Our Board has agreed to help and provide guidance to other Boards.” According to Branch, the success of Oconee County Schools is a reflection on
the community itself. “I think the foundation of a great school system is an outstanding community with people working to provide students with what they need to be successful,” he said. “It’s nice to have the Board of Education that we have and I’m pleased they have been recognized. It is another outstanding award for Oconee County. “It’s great to see our stu-
dents, teachers, leaders and Board of Education recognized. I think folks from around the state look to Oconee to see how things should be done in an excellent fashion and the Board of Education is certainly an indication of that as well.”
Mike Sprayberry is a reporter for The Oconee Leader.
Oconee Pilot Club donates iPods to Highland Hills Village
The Oconee County Pilot Club has donated seven Apple iPods and headsets to the Memory Care facility at St. Mary’s Highland Hills Village. The iPods will be part of a “Music and Memory” program being created by activities manager Gina Hobbs. The program will provide individualized playlists tailored to provide the resident with enjoyment and help soothe the confusion and anxiety caused by memory loss. The Pilot Club obtained the iPods and headsets with a grant from Walton EMC, which is funded by Project Roundup. Pictured are, from left to right: Laura Childs, Highland Hills Clinical Manager; Elaine Neal, Pilot Club Projects Division; Judy Murrow, Pilot Club Projects Division; Rita Knudsen, member of the Walton EMC Operation Roundup Program; Rosa Hall, President, Pilot Club of Oconee County; Gina Hobbs, Highland Hills Activities Manager, and Gayle Christopher, Pilot Club Projects Division. - Contributed
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Heavy rains following Christmas caused problems in Oconee County as a dam on a neighborhood pond threatened to break and roads and parks had to be temporarily closed. On Wednesday, Dec. 30, Simonton Bridge Road (pictured above) had to be closed temporarily while a Watkinsville City crew cleared a drain pipe, but rushing water continued to cover a portion of the roadway for several hours. Branch Road, Black Ike Road and J.T. Elder Road were all closed because of flooding. The City of Watkinsville also closed Harris Shoals Park of Experiment Station Road because of the rushing water of Calls Creek coming through the park. Atlanta television news outlets came to Oconee County to get footage of the dam and flooding. WSB’s Channel 2 News visited Harris Shoals Park in Watkinsville (pictured below). Off Mars Hill Road, the Briar Lakes Court neighborhood was threatened as the dam on one of the neighborhood ponds appeared that it could give way on the evening of December 29 and forced the voluntary evacuation of residents of that neighborhood. Overnight, workers were able to siphon significant amounts of water from the pond and begin to shore up the dam.
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Saturday the Oconee Pilot Club will host a 5K fundraiser at Oconee Veterans Park. The race begins at 9 a.m. with race-day registration starting at 8 a.m. The 7th annual Pilot Club Chase 5K will raise money to support the Pilot Club’s community service efforts, according to Pilot Member Judy Marable. “We are a very active club and are very proud of our work for the community,” Marable said. “All of our projects are important, but the Pilot International’s Project Lifesaver offers so much for our community. We partner with the Oconee County Sherriff’s Department to support the wearable tracking monitors used for locating citizens and children who may be in danger of wandering away from their home due to Alzheimer’s,
autism and other related conditions or disorders. Project Lifesaver can save lives, reduce potential injury, and provide peace of mind for the family caregivers.” Registration for the race is $25 with a shirt and $15 for no shirt through active.com. Winners in age categories receive handmade stained glass trophies. Chartered in 1979, the Oconee Pilot Club has a long history of service in the community related to Pilot International’s principles of friendship and service to help people affected by brain-related disorders and their families through universal awareness and prevention of Brain-related Disorders and Disabilities, Marable said. The money raised from this year’s race will help to fund the activities Pilot is involved with in Oconee County. Among these things, the Oconee chapter provides a scholar-
ship to an Oconee County student attending the Oconee Campus of the University of North Georgia. The Pilot Club is also a sponsor of Extra Special People’s upcoming Big Hearts Pageant. Marable said some of the money raised through Saturday’s 5K will also help with the club’s outreach to the area’s elderly. “We enjoy offering our time and resources to the Mental Health Association, HIghland Hills Memory Care Unit, and The Cottage through donations, providing special parties and visits,” Marable said. For those interested in learning more about the local chapter of the Pilot Club or getting involved, the club meets the first Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Community Center on VFW Drive in Watkinsville. The club’s website is OconeePilotClub.com.
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younger brother. “Austin and Courtney did quite a bit,” Bobby said. “They all itched in. I had no worries at home when I was going back and forth to the hospital all the time.” With all of these ordinary things to be excited about in 2016, Sara’s surgery from last year is offering her one more, less ordinary, thing to look forward to. Later this year, the Make A Wish Foundation is ending Sara, her parents, and her brothers and sister, on vacation to the Virgin Islands. Her parents said the most important thing about this trip to Sara was that everyone in the family was able to go. “We all suffered through this as a family,” Sara said.
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PACS senior scores 1,000th career point BY MATTHEW CALDWELL The Oconee Leader
With 37 seconds left against Eagle’s Landing Christian in their final game before region play, Prince Avenue Christian senior Jordyn Smith connected on a lay-up, drawing loud cheers and a standing ovation from the crowd. The Lady Wolverines trailed in the game and the Lady Wolverines lost by double figures, but the significance of the two points by Smith was it was her 1,000th career point. “I thought I got fouled and that’s why everyone was cheering. I wanted to cry a little bit. It was an accomplishment for myself. Seeing the support that I have from the fans uplifted my spirit,” Smith said after the game. “It is special for me. I play softball here too. I think it’s cool to have your Please see
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Schedule:
Athens Academy Basketball – 6 p.m., Jan. 9 North Oconee Wrestling – 5 p.m., Jan. 12 Oconee County Wrestling – 9 a.m., Jan. 9 Wrestling – 5 p.m., Jan. 12 Basketball – 6 p.m., Jan. 12 Prince Avenue Christian Basketball – 6:30 p.m., Jan. 8 Basketball – 6 p.m., Jan. 9 Westminster Christian Basketball – 6 p.m., Jan. 7 Basketball – 4 p.m., Jan. 9 Basketball – 6 p.m., Jan. 12
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Jordyn Smith scored her 1,000th career point on this lay-up late in the fourth quarter against Eagle’s Landing Christian. For more pictures of the game, see theoconeeleader.com.
Prince Avenue Christian basketball
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BY MATTHEW CALDWELL The Oconee Leader
Prince Avenue Christian hosted Eagle’s Landing Christian in the first game of 2016 last Saturday and thanks to a strong second quarter, the Wolverines toppled the Chargers 52-39 to earn their sixth win of the season. “At the beginning of the second quarter, we played real well. I felt like the last two minutes of the second quarter, we left a lot of meat on the bone. We could have really put them away,” said head coach Richard Ricketts. “The mid-third quarter we got that distance we needed and then we got a little sloppy, but I was rotating a lot of people in and trying different lineups. Overall it was a good win. I thought we rebounded well. We didn’t shoot well tonight but we got a little balance. We’ve got several people that can help us. If someone isn’t shooting well, other people will pick it up.” Seven different Wolverines scored, led by Duncan Taylor’s 19 points. He had four points in the first, sec-
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Prince Avenue Christian’s Duncan Taylor drives to the basket in the third quarter last Saturday in the Wolverines’ 52-39 win against ELCA.
ond and third quarters before finishing with seven
points in the fourth quarter. Noah Campbell and Dalton
Meeler both had eight points. Warren Albert had
six points. Andrew Medina had five points. Mack Simmons and Sam Todd both had three points. Ricketts said after the game he didn’t believe there was any extra motivation for the Wolverines since they were playing against the school that ended Prince Avenue Christian’s football season in each of the last two seasons. “We just want to win. That’s where these kids are,” Ricketts said. “We haven’t had a bunch of that in the past. We just wanted to win.” The Wolverines went 2-1 in the Bulldog Holiday ‘PACS hoops’ Page 6
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Oconee’s Nolands named Region 8-AAA offensive player, coach of the year
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Athens Academy’s Richardson named Region 8-A player of the year, Alexander named coach of the year
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Oconee County senior quarterback Zeb Noland was named Region 8AAA offensive player of the year and head coach Travis Noland was named coach of the year when the All-Region team was named last month. Christian Casey (RB), Roques Dowdy (WR), Abe Noland (OL), Tyler Davis (ATH), Champ Bell (DB), Jaleel Laguins (LB), Tay Brown (LB) and Gavin Adcock (DL) were all named to the All-Region team.
Athens Academy senior Drew Richardson was named Region 8-A player of the year and head coach Josh Alexander was named coach of the year when the all-region teams were announced last month. Region coaches voted on the honors. Athens Academy had six players recognized on the all-region team – Frankie Sinkwich (OL), Will Corry (RB), Jacob Hudson (WR), Wyatt Settles (TE), Rolf Reynolds (DB) and Magill Bauerle (P).
North Oconee players named to All-Region 8-AAAA team North Oconee had several members named to the All-Region 8-AAAA team when it was announced last month. Conner Krieger (OL, pictured), Da’Marco Canty (WR), Eric Bell (DL) and Will Newman (LB) were named first-team all-region. Preston Wilkie (TE), Kyrie Moore (WR), Dylan Murphy (LB), Mils Eisenberg (secondary) and Simon Clarke (K) were named secondteam all-region. Kumar Rocker (DE), Saajan Patel (LB), Robert Bohler (OL) and Stephen Kreyenbuhl (DL) were honorable mentions. MATTHEW CALDWELL/Oconee Leader
Prince Avenue Christian’s Owens named Region 8-A defensive player of the year
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Prince Avenue Christian junior Dalton Owens was named Region 8-A defensive player of the year last month, as voted on by region coaches. There were 11 members of the Wolverines who were recognized on the all-region team – Robert Kraeling (OL), Jared Bloodworth (OL), Grayson Schulte (OL), Kevon Hudson (RB), Andrew Hayes (RB), Jordan Hightower (RB), Noah Campbell (DB), Jordan Ginnel (DB), Zach Ragle (LB), Harrison Jump (DL) and Daniel Parrish (DL).
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own personal accomplishment, and my team helped me get to this point, especially my coach. I have her to thank a lot for that.” Smith is just the second Lady Wolverine to score at least 1,000 career points, joining Haley Soles. She reached the feat in 2012 in a game at Athens Christian. “It definitely lifts my confidence because I grew up watching Haley and I was real close with Emily, her sister, playing softball with her. She was a great ball player. It definitely boosts my confidence accomplishing something she accomplished here,” Smith said. “In my mind I didn’t think I would come close to that because in my head, Haley was on this pedestal and I never saw myself being there. Starting last year was when it was a big goal of mine.” Smith has been the leading scorer of the team in every year she has been on the team. “Even last year with the twins, she outscored them by .2 points. This year she has turned it up. She is averaging for the last two games about 20 a game. She has stepped it up but not just offensively, defensively as well,” said head coach Katie Gilbert. “She has been a joy. I don’t think a lot of people realized how talented she is. She doesn’t play basketball until she is done with softball so I only get her from November to February and that’s it. She has some smaller colleges looking at her finally. She is a joy to coach. She goes hard every single minute out there, not just in games
but in practices too. She is a great leader for our team. “Everything she does, she does 100 percent. She hustles. She plays hard. She brings those intangibles to the court. She is the first person to pick up a freshman if the freshman makes a mistake. She is the first person to take fault if it’s her fault. She is a great player but more than that, she is a great person.”
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She is a joy to coach. She goes hard every single minute out there, not just in games but in practices too. She is a great leader for our team. -Head coach Katie Gilbert about Jordyn Smith
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Jordyn Smith is introduced prior to starting against ELCA last Saturday.
Smith has been a key player on the softball team as well, helping the Lady Wolverines win the region championship all four years she was on the team and helping the team reach Columbus and the Elite Eight in each season. She is being recruited in both sports but Smith said she didn’t have a preference about which one to play in
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college. Going into this season, Smith needed 214 points to reach 1,000. Going into last Saturday’s game against ELCA, she thought she was around 20 points away from the feat. She ended with 18 points. “We talked about it but I did not think I was as close as I was for this game for it to happen,” Smith said. “I was pretty nervous, not as
much about the 1,000 but just because of ELCA. Prince and ELCA have this animosity towards each other and it’s always a tough game mentally. “We had the Christmas tournament and I tried to get as much in as I could in those games so I would have the opportunity to get it at home. Those prepared me a lot physically for this game because they played me box-and-one in this game, and in the tournament that prepared me to be ready for this game.” Gilbert has coached the Lady Wolverines since Smith was a freshman. “Jordyn deserves it. It is nothing I have done,” Gilbert said. “She has put in the time and effort. She is a competitor. She has continually done it for us. After Smith, the first Lady Wolverine to score her 1,000th point at home, scored, the game was briefly stopped so the game ball could be presented to her. “It was real special,” Smith said about scoring it at home. “My family was able to come and the school was able to come support. That means a lot too to have the support from here.”
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Noah Campbell had eight points in last Saturday’s win against ELCA.
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Classic last week with wins against Mount Pisgah and Mount Vernon and a loss to Dawson County. “During the tournament we played 12 quarters and I thought we played 10 decent quarters of basketball, one real bad and one kind of eh,” Ricketts said. “We are decent but we have to play well all of the time. We are getting there.” The region portion of the schedule began earlier this week against Athens Academy. “The preseason is over and it’s time to get to the core of region play and we’ll see what happens,” Ricketts said. “It’s a good bunch of kids. They get along well. They have good chemistry together. We’ll see.”
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