Earning a Golden Eagle Award were men’s golfer Zach Lindsey and softball player Maddie Monroe. Chosen for a Silver Eagle Award, named after a former Reinhardt athletic administrator and coach, were Wes Jones, a former member of the men’s basketball program, and volleyball player Sami Lane.
Golden Eagle awards are given annually to Reinhardt’s top male and female student-athletes while the Silver Eagle awards are presented to a male and female student-athlete for his/her team spirit and loyalty to the University.
A repeat recipient of the Golden Eagle award on the women’s side, Monroe is a 5-foot-8 rising junior pitcher from Calhoun, Ga., who has been selected as the AAC Pitcher of the Year twice in her first two seasons on campus. She was also a part of the 2011 Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association NAIA All-East Region Second Team after topping Reinhardt in almost every statistical pitching category this past year. Monroe made 27 appearances with 21 complete games and seven shutouts, posting a 21-5 record and 1.51 ERA. In 162 innings, she struck out 163 and walked 35 with opponents batting .219 against her. Behind Monroe, the Lady Eagles were ranked 13th nationally in the final NAIA poll after claiming both the AAC regular season and tournament championships, and finishing with a 40-11 overall record for the second year in a row. In 2011, Reinhardt made its first trip to the NAIA National Championship tournament.
All four honorees will be recognized during halftime of a men’s or women’s basketball game during the 2011-12 season. Their names are displayed on large plaques in the lobby of the James & Sis Brown Athletic Center on Reinhardt’s main campus.
Did she ever play for a state Championship at Calhoun?
This happens all the time, not only at Calhoun HS, but other successful schools, too. Winning sometimes brings out the worst in you.
Someone said Calhon recruited a QB from out of the system, then Coach Lamb recuits his family member from out of state and the other boy gets bumped to another positon. Rather funny. Recruits getting bumped by recuits. Pretty soon, the only true local kid left is the water boy.
Josh Smoker had his own catcher who came in from another county, too. In fact,you can go down the lineup no matter what sport and see outsider after outsider.
My point is this. Most people here in Gordon County are ticked off by the flood of illegal aliens in our County/City. Entire neighborhoods have been swarmed into and taken over. Every fast food store is covered up with illegals working in the back rather than our own HS kids, college students, working moms, etc. Entire shifts at our mills are covered up by illegals, taking jobs away from locals, and lowering wages for all of us.
Our local kids are no different. They are born in the county, grow up in the county, go to elementary school in the county, play little league and T-ball in the county. Then when they get into HS, in the 11th and 12th grade, athlete after athlete "magically" appears, and our kids get shoved aside like last weeks trash.
The dumb jocks and fair-weather idiot fans dont care, just as long as, "duhh, I luv a weiner, duhh!" Its not their kid that gets ripped, so that make that mom and dad or kid into whiners.
Illegal aliens taking jobs and benefits from rightful Americans isno different from coaches "recruiting" the so-called missing pieces to their team.
Kids who are in our system all 4 years get ripped for top academic honors by transfers, and so do our local boys and girls playing ball.
That aint right, no matter what type of a spin a dumb jock with no dog in the fight wants to put on it.
I would like to hear from other people who had their kids ripped by the Calhoun Sports/Academic system.
Sounds to me JoeGordon struck a nerve. Truth is the Truth. Guess you good ole boys don't like to be call out huh?
She also attended Dalton and Northwest High schools
This is a fine example of how winning is done at good ole CHS....