COMMERCE—With only a week under his belt on the job as North Oconee High School Rick Rasmussen has begun taking a page out of the Philadelphia 76ers’ book.
Oconee County native Chloe Beck etched her name in tennis stone last weekend. Beck and her doubles partner, Charleston, S.C. native Emma Navarro became the first American duo to win the Junior French Open doubles championship since 1982 and only the sixth and seventh Americans to ever win th…
North Oconee High School graduate Kumar Rocker ascended from the earth of average college baseball players and entered the realm of the immortals.
Family got 11-year-old Anabella Bluhm into the swimming pool when she was 5-years-old. Bluhm and her older sister and younger brother all spend the month of June competing the summer swimming league for the Friendship Sharks.
The last two weeks the Oconee County/Athens area has been on display nationwide. Not for it’s football. With two four-star and nationally recruited quarterbacks in town and the University of Georgia’s football presence looming in all of its glory, one would think the area would be football-crazed.
Summer Hill swimmer Addie Hayes entered the summer swimming season without much expectations or pressure to accomplish anything.
Parents dusted off the tents, packed the snacks and loaded the car with excited youth marked with sharpie as the summer swimming season kicked off on Thursday night.
The Oconee Club Swim Team competed in a swim meet against Friendship on Monday night on Athens Academy’s campus in both team’s second meet of the summer season.
There aren’t many student-athletes that have come through North Oconee High School in the last two decades that haven’t been come across or been coached by Randy Cain.
My heart has finally stopped pounding and my sweat has finally been cleaned from my clothes and stashed in the closet.
