CCSD Team Wins National Honors at Erg Rowing Competition
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CCSD Team Wins National Honors at Erg Rowing Competition
The Cherokee County School District erg indoor rowing team earned regional and national honors!
The CCSD Erg Sprint Team earned 16 region honors and four U.S. Rowing Indoor National Championships medals at the Atlanta Erg Sprints held this month at Georgia Tech. Congratulations to all the winning students and coaches, thank you to our partners, and thank you to our School Board for its laser focus on ensuring our students are learning more, growing more, and achieving more in our classrooms than they could anywhere else!
Three students earned national Silver Medals: Sydney Dyer of Dean Rusk MS (first in region), Braylen Hall of Teasley MS (second in region), Jack Shaffer of E.T. Booth MS (first in region). Braylen additionally earned a national Bronze Medal, and Sydney additionally earned fourth-place and sixth-place national honors (first and second in region).
More team members earning Top 10 national rankings are: Dylan Saulinskas of Cherokee HS, fourth place (first in region); Baya Reeves of E.T. Booth MS, fifth place (second in region); Devon Chavez of Mill Creek MS, seventh place (first in region); Graham Stiles of Creekview HS, eighth place (first in region) and ninth place (second in region). Aiden Phillips of Teasley MS earned second in region honors. PE teachers Paige English of Teasley MS placed sixth in the nation and Donna Ross of Mil Creek MS placed 10th at the event. See the team’s full results online here and here.
The students and staff who competed at the Atlanta Erg Sprint qualified through excellent performances at the first-ever CCSD Erg Sprints held earlier this year. The CCSD Erg Sprint Team is coached by Ann Carey of Allatoona Rowing Association, which has partnered with CCSD since 2023 on the erg middle school PE program funded by the George Pocock Foundation Erg Ed Grant.
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