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Perfectly polished just in time for Easter
Boy hasn’t the weather been glorious in Athens over the last month? Other than a severe need for rain, the temperatures have been in the 70s and 80s, which has meant plenty of great days out in the sun. I’m not sure what this will mean for the upcoming summer season, but for now I’m content in soaking up the remaining days of spring. And as you know, there is plenty to do in the Athens area in the near future. Right now, while I’m stuck on my laptop, patrons are beginning their weeklong journey to Augusta for The Masters. There’s nothing in our country that signifies spring more than golf ’s first major. Yes, the golf that will be played will be stellar, but by now everyone knows it’s the scenery at Augusta National that makes the event so glorious. And how neat that this year’s event culminates on Easter Sunday. To me as a child growing up on St. Simons, Easter always provided a rare opportunity for my mother to get her three children in their Sunday best for church and then an annual photo. Bless mom’s heart as I assure you, my siblings and I certainly didn’t make it the all-American Kodak mo-
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ment she sought. Nonetheless, we always persevered with a photo that at least looked like we were somewhat into it. On this issue’s cover, Cheri and I decided to run photos from the recent Perfectly Polished (page 11) event held in Athens. The etiquette school helps young people to develop self-confidence, courtesy and respect for others through a curriculum of social and dance education. Now a look at the website, shows photos of nothing but smiling faces, but boy don’t you know some severe wrangling went on to get the children to these classes and events. For sure, this paralleled what my siblings and I did at Easter to dear old mom. So to all the brave moms and dads out there, who have perfectly polished (or at least on the verge of) children we salute you this Easter season. Beyond the photos of these sharp future leaders, this issue of BI Athens has plenty of shots of folks supporting local causes. Don’t miss everything from the Hope Haven Fashion Show (page 5), Starry Starry Night (page 9) and the Sigma Delta Tau (page 7) events. There’s nothing better than seeing groups of people giving back to their com-
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munity. And this certainly rings even truer around Easter. Beyond our photo pages in this issue, our contributors have provided great articles on three of Athenian’s biggest passions … food, music and sports. Student intern Ashley Hanna got a coveted reservation to the most recent Four Coursemen dinner and her report from it will certainly have your taste buds on high alert. And our music extraordinaire Daniel Peiken had a blast at the recent BreastFest event. You can see his photos from it and his suggestions for April on page 10. And Jeff Dantzler (page 4) and Travis Ragsdale (page 6) once again give our readers updates on UGA athletics. There you have it. Please enjoy this issue. And it is our sincere hope that it will motivate you to get out and enjoy the many offerings of this incredible city. And since it’s Easter, there’s not a better time to splurge and buy gifts or go out for dinner at a locally owned business. And naturally, you should be in your Sunday best and be nothing but perfectly polished. Happy Easter to all.
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Former athletes making mark in professional ranks
Jeff Dantzler
Springtime is in full bloom in America’s greatest college town, it’s Masters week and a majority of the University of Georgia’s athletic teams are in the midst of competition. Great weather and the outdoors, sparks passion for baseball, golf and tennis. David Perno, Manny Diaz and Chris Haack once again have outstanding squads, and after a combined five decades as head coaches of Georgia’s baseball, men’s tennis and men’s golf programs, all have coached numerous great athletes. Many are now shining brightly on the national and world stage and continuing to deliver a great deal of pride to their alma mater. On the diamond, there are three current big leaguers who played at Georgia. Jeff Keppinger delivered the singular greatest single game performance in Bulldog history with his 5-for-5, three home run showing in Georgia’s 2001 8-7 victory over Coastal Carolina – capped with his legendary two-out, two-run round tripper in the top of the ninth (Georgia was the designated visitor), baseball’s Belue-to-Scott. He is one of the five greatest players in program history and has enjoyed a stellar big league career. Keppinger should have an excellent opportunity to make it to the postseason this year, as he has joined the Tampa Bay Rays. Gordon Beckham had the greatest season in Bulldog baseball history in 2008, leading Georgia to the finals of the College World Series while leading the nation in homers and becoming the first player in school history to hit over .400 in three decades.
Beckham hit .411 with 28 round trippers and 77 RBI’s, while being named SEC Player of the Year and Scholar Athlete of the Year. After a quick stint in the minors, Beckham was called up to the South Side and named the 2009 Rookie of the Year for the Chicago White Sox. Beckham had a record setting defensive season for the Pale Hose in 2011, and will again man second base for the White Sox. Mitchell Boggs was a standout reliever for the Bulldogs in the mid-2000s, and has gone on to a standout career in the majors. A big part of the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals bullpen, Boggs had four saves last year and made seven postseason appearances. Big John Isner is perhaps the most famous active major star athlete/alum of any sport and any school. After his epic Marathon Match win at Wimbledon in 2010, he famously sported a red Georgia T-shirt with the growling, snarling, collar wearing Bulldog for all of the world to see. Isner has beaten both Roger Federer and Novak Djokavic this year and vaulted into the world’s top ten. At every Isner match, no matter where, there are Bulldogs barking. The PGA Tour is littered with former Georgia standouts, including Bubba Watson, Harris English, Ryuji Imada, Russell Henley, Brendon Todd, Chris Kirk, Brian Harmon and Kevin Kisner. Watson, the ultra-long lefty with an overflowing personality is one of the world’s best players, a multi-time winner on tour and playoff participant at the 2010 PGA Championship. Henley, while still in school, and English, just
after graduation, made history last year winning Nationwide Tour Events as amateurs. Both have played exceptionally well on tour. Henley has been low-amateur at the U.S. Open. English played in the final group with Rory McIlroy at this year’s Honda Classic in Palm Beach. At the same event, at the famed “Bear Trap,” Harmon set the course record with a Friday 61. Kirk won on tour last year and played in this year’s Tournament of Champions. Todd’s pro highlight came at Jennings Mill in the Athens Nationwide Tour Event back in 2009 when he aced the same Par Three in back to back rounds. Perno has guided Georgia to three College World Series, two Southeastern Conference championships and six of the school’s 11 all time NCAA Tournament appearances. Diaz has led Georgia to four national championships and 11 appearances in the NCAA Finals and the most SEC crowns of any school during his tenure. Haack has coached Georgia to a pair of national titles and two national runner-up finishes and the most SEC crowns of any school during his tenure. All have had incredible success, and it obviously takes outstanding players to achieve greatness and championships. As Georgia continues to thrive in these three – as well as so more other sports – it’s a lot of fun to see so many former Bulldog standouts enjoy so much success on their various professional stages.
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Softball’s Paige Wilson named SEC Freshman of the Week, second time this season
Men’s tennis rookie Nathan Pasha collects second SEC Freshman of the Week honors Lady Track’s Morgann Leleux ties school pole vault record to highlight relays
Georgia Soccer claims 7 v 7 championship recently held in Athens
Track & field’s J.P. Hackney and swimmer Wendy Trott nominated for the H. Boyd McWhorter Scholar-Athlete Post-Graduate Scholarship
Swimming’s Martin Grodzki sets record-setting performance in the 1,650-yard freestyle at the NCAA Championships
Four wins in the throws highlight seven finishes for Georgia’s track and field teams during the Yellow Jacket Invitational
Hope Haven Fashion Show Nick and Mim Bourke
Tuter Boswell, Barrie Finney and Tammy Wall
Jennifer Patterson and Blaine Dillon
Carol Driver and Becky Alhadeff
Linz Queen, Diane Gill and Brenda Thompson
Ashley Johnson and Alice Ballenger
Kendall and Zach Cole
St. Simon’s Island showcase with Honey Blue & Dukes of Glynn (with special guest performance by Greg Hester)
Ike Stubblefield & Friends featuring Col. Bruce Hampton, Jeff Sipe, John Keane, Isaac Bramblett, Caroline Aiken and more!
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Travis Ragsdale’s 411 on University of Georgia athletics By Travis Ragsdale
Gymnastics The Gym Dogs fell short at the SEC Championships in Gwinnett coming up with a 3rd place finish. Their total score of 196.575 fell shy of the scores posted by Florida and Alabama (197.150 and 196.775 respectively). The Dawgs high score came from an unusual exercise for them; bars. They scored 49.200 on the bars, their highest this season. The NCAA Regionals begin April 7 at 7 p.m. in Auburn.
Baseball Georgia fell to 18-11 overall and 4-5 in the SEC after losing 2 out of 3 games in a series with the Kentucky Wildcats most recently. With the two stinging losses, the Dawgs are likely to fall out of the top-25 Baseball America polls. The series got off to a fine start with a win in the first part of a Saturday double header but the Cats offense proved too much as they pushed across 9 and 11 runs in the final two games. Perno’s team will have to bounce back quickly when they travel to Fayetteville to take on one of the best teams in the country in Arkansas. That series starts April 6 and runs through April 8. The team will be on the road again after that with a re-match against Clemson. This time, in Clemson. The Tigers laid the lumber to the Dawgs in Athens last week, beating them by a score of 10-5. Foley Field will finally see some more action following the Clemson game on the weekend of April 12, 13 and 14. Ole Miss will be town that weekend for another tough SEC series. Coach Perno is hoping that his guys can step up to the challenge and rebound in the middle of this blistering SEC schedule.
Equestrian The No. 1 Georgia equestrian team was in a tie in the final round of the Southern Equestrian Championships to South Carolina. However, with a raw score of 4201-3083, the Bulldogs fell. Carly Anthony once again rode well as she won MVP honors in her respective event along with Kylee Arbuckle, Megan Hawkins and McKenzie Lantz. Now, the team focuses their attention on the National Championship once again. As a No. 3 seed in the hunt seat and western disciplines, the Dawgs have received a first round bye in each of those events. The championships start April 12 in Waco, TX.
Tennis The third ranked men’s tennis team wrapped up the home portion of their regular season schedule with a shutout over Vanderbilt. That moved Georgia to 16-2 (6-1). The lone SEC loss came against Kentucky in what was as close and exciting of a college tennis match as you’ll ever see. Look again for that re-match in the SEC tournament or the NCAAs; it will prove to be a good one. Now that the home schedule is wrapped up, the team will have to travel Alabama, Auburn and Tennessee to finish out the rest of the season and SEC play. From there, the SEC tournament kicks off the 19th from Starkville, MS. After that, it’s on to the NCAAs which will be in Athens this year. It’s always an exciting event and could be even more exciting if Georgia continues their winning ways and makes a deep run in the tournament. Behind the solid play of Wil Spencer, KU Singh and freshman phenom Nathan Pasha, the Dawgs have every opportunity to get Athens excited about championship tennis once again. Anchored by Nadja Gilchrist and Chelsey Gullickson, the women’s team is having a heck of a season of their own. They had better luck than the men against Kentucky recently shutting out the Wildcats 7-0. They will finish out the rest of the season with Alabama of the 6th, Auburn on the 8th and Tennessee on the 14th. All of those matches will be at home. The SEC tournament will then begin on April 19 in Oxford, MS.
Softball A four game series with Florida saw a split from the two best teams in the SEC. The Dawgs won the first two games but lost the final two of the weekend against the Gators to bring their overall record to 29-7 on the season. Still, the No. 9 ranked Georgia team has much softball left to be played in the season. They will have a break from SEC play when they face USC Upstate on the 10th at 6:30. The next day though, they will have to jump head first back into SEC action as they have a double-header with South Carolina. Then they’re back on the road two days later for a three game series with Kentucky in Lexington. Senior hurler Erin Arevalo has put the team on her back to this point in the season going 14-3 with a 1.25 ERA. More incredible is the fact that she has accounted for over half of the innings pitched for the Dawgs. At the plate Kristyn Sandberg has been the model of consistency starting all thirty six games. She’s plugging away at a .366 clip with ten homeruns and thirty three RBIs. She leads the team in both of those categories.
Golf The men’s golf team recently had their best finish of the season at the Linger Longer Invitiational in Eatonton, GA. The No. 25ranked Bulldogs finished second in the field behind only the No. 7 ranked Alabama Crimson Tide. Freshman Nick Reach also had his best individual performance of the year at the tournament. Reach went birdie-birdie on his final two holes to force a playoff with Alabama’s Cory Whitsett for the individual title. Both Reach and Whitsett birdied the first three holes of the playoff but Whitsett came out on top after an eagle on 18. The team now has several weeks off before traveling down to St. Simons Island for the SEC tournament on April 20. The Women’s golf team recently had a second place finish of their own at the Liz Murphy Classic here in Athens. They finished second behind, guess who ... Alabama as well. All-American, Marta Silva Zamora finished third after carding a score of 5-under for the tournament. Much like the men, the women have some time off before traveling to Fayetteville, AK for the SEC tournament. 6
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Diamond Dawgs Vs. Kentucky Don Lyon, Kira Lyon and Lori Lyon
Melaney Perno and Darby Veazey
Courtney Elledge and Katie Daniel
John Wise, Ellis, Bentley, Mary Whitney and Whitney Long
Garrett Scantling, Chelsea Davis, Cat Hires and Lindsey Cheek
James Brinson and Lee Brinson
Brady Burruss, Jim Douglas, James Douglas, Charles Douglas and Byrd Carter
Matt Hoitsma and Ryan Hoitsma
Alysse Whatley and Mary Kate Hoban
Mac Morrison and Billy Collins
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Spotlight on The Four Coursemen As we walked up the gravel path to a little green house tucked in the corner, we began to smell it. The food. Immediately we knew we were in the right place. I have been dying to go to a Four *V\YZLTLU KPUULY HUK ÄUHSS` NV[ [OL JOHUJL to experience it with three of my closest friends Saturday, March 24. I don’t know that it’s possible to put into words what an experience dining with them is like, but I’m going to do my best. If you have never heard of this culinary bunch before, let me explain what they do. Typically two times a month, a group of friends, who all have backgrounds at some of Athens most beloved restaurants, get together and cook dinner. This is no ordinary meal though. The group creates meals based on what’s in season and only uses sustainable ingredients that they then pair with incredible wines and spirits. They open up their adorable green house to 24 guests and PU]P[L [OLT PU MVY H Ä]L JV\YZL TLHS [OH[ SLH]LZ them wanting to lick their plate it’s so good. The dinners have become so popular that a seat at one of the two long wooden tables in their white walled dining room is almost impossible to come by. They announce the dinner a few days before it’s happening by email and [LSS `V\ ^OLU `V\ ^PSS IL HISL [V ZPNU \W 4` ÄYZ[ attempt was unlucky. I got on to their website at 12:01 p.m. and the entire dinner was already
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Following that, we were served a spring onion soup with what ended up being my favorite wine of the evening. Country fried venison that was instantly light because of the perfect touch of orange zest led us into the main event of the evening, the heritage farms Cheshire pork chop. It was so good people were picking up the bone to try and get every last bite they could. The grand ÄUHSL ^HZ IS\L JOLLZL PJL JYLHT ^P[O H ILPNnet. Even my roommate who isn’t a fan of blue cheese adored the dish. It was frozen perfection. It wasn’t just the incredibly delicious and creative food that left me wanting more, but the people and the conversations, the whole experience that is at the core of every great meal. There were two stand-out moments during the night for me that were just so perfectly Athens. It happened to be Patterson Hood of The Drive-By Trucker’s birthday the night we were there, so the entire room got to serenade him with Happy Birthday. How many people get to do that? Then, we ended the night by passing around a communal glass of moonshine. Yes, you read that correctly, moonshine. As I looked around the room at the 23 other faces talking and laughing while they passed the glass around, I couldn’t help but feel like we were all a part of something bigger than just a meal. And that feeling alone was worth the price of admission.
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By Daniel Peiken I advised everyone to attend Breastfest Athens 2012 this past weekend. I was there and it was one of the most beautiful days with tons of great local music, beer and sunshine. Bloodkin, the Grandfaloons, Efren, Betsy Franck & the Bareknuckle Band, Mark Cunnigham & the Nationals, Dangfly, the Chasers, Charlie Garrett Band, Chris Moore, Dodd Ferrell, Kyshona Armstrong & Deja Vu, plus many others. Folks left loving Athens more than when they arrived (if that's possible). Check out www.AthensRockShow.com to watch more than 1400 of my videos and pictures of Athens bands. Here is where Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go if I could go out every night and see every band that I wanted to see in Athens. 4/4 Caroline Aiken, Josh Daniels, Emily Jackson (Caledonia Lounge) 4/5 Alabama Shakes (Georgia Theatre) 4/6 Abigail Washburn (The Melting Point) 4/6 Ruby Kendrick, Midnight Revival, Androcles and the Lion (Caledonia Lounge) 4/7 the Darnell Boys, w the High Strung Band, Whiskey Gentry (Georgia Theatre) 4/7 Deja-Vu with Nathan Sheppard (The Melting Point) 4/9 Centromatic (Georgia Theatre) 4/11 Rehab (Georgia Theatre) 4/12 The Broadcast (No Where Bar) 4/13 Umphrey's McGee, Sweet Knievel (Georgia Theatre) 4/13 Hopeforagoldensummer (New Earth Music Hall) 4/17 Warren Haynes (Georgia Theatre) 4/18 Bloodkin / Johnny Corndawg / Shovels and Rope (Georgia Theatre) 4/18 Lowdive, Passafire (The Melting Point) 4/21 the Futurebirds, Don Chambers, New Madrid (Georgia Theatre) 4/27 Dream So Real Reunion (The Melting Point) 4/28 Perpetual Groove (Georgia Theatre) 5/5 Coheed & Cambria (the 40 Watt Club) 5/9 Jane Jane Pollock, the Growlers (Georgia Theatre) 5/11 Mother's Finest (Georgia Theatre) 5/16 M. Ward (Georgia Theatre) Come to Athens for the Bulldawgs and stay for the Rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Roll. Chances are the person serving you sweet tea at lunch will be performing on a stage that night.
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Spotlight on future Dawg: Davis McLanahan Temple and Rhodes are the proud parents of second grader Davis McLanahan. Davis along with her brother William and sister Clara are huge bulldog fans! We asked Davis a few questions about what aspects of UGA she likes the best.
What is your favorite thing that Hairy Dawg does?
What is your favorite UGA sporting event to go to and why?
Who is your favorite Gym Dog? My favorite Gym Dog is Kat Ding. She is my favorite because she is really good at the bars which are my favorite. Also, she is very pretty.
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My favorite sport at UGA is gymnastics. I love going to the Gym Dog meets! I like going to them because the girls are athletic. My favorite parts are watching them on the bars and when they dance.
What is a funny memory you have of Spike?
What is your favorite thing about UGA? My favorite thing about UGA is how Stegeman can change into different things. One day it is the basketball court, one day the gymnastics meet is there, and the next day Perfectly Polished is there.
At one of the basketball games all the boys kept pushing him down and he kept falling over. It was really funny but I felt bad for him.
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