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Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County High School head tennis coach Bryan Getty watches Tagg Bedingfield bounce the ball off his racket during a “Summer Tennis Camp” Monday at the Kingwood Golf Club & Resort tennis courts.

Enoch Autry/The Clayton Tribune. Rabun County High School head tennis coach Bryan Getty watches Tagg Bedingfield bounce the ball off his racket during a “Summer Tennis Camp” Monday at the Kingwood Golf Club & Resort tennis courts.

Rec department’s jammed-packed summer

The swimming pool is open for the season; the 7th Annual Recreation Shootout Golf Tournament is this month; and a slew of summer programs are on the calendar for a busy Rabun County Recreation Department. The pool will be in operation for swimmers seven days a week.
TFS Athletics. Tallulah Falls Middle School students DJ Broome and Jack Thomson finished 11th over at the Georgia Bass Nation State Tournament.

TFS Athletics. Tallulah Falls Middle School students DJ Broome and Jack Thomson finished 11th over at the Georgia Bass Nation State Tournament.

Bass fishing wraps up season with state tournament success

The TFS bass fishing program wrapped up its 2022 season over the weekend while competing in the two-day Georgia Bass Nation State Tournament. The high school duo of Haygen James and Koen Eller placed 44th overall, hauling in 15.02 pounds over the two days.
Submitted photo. Rabun County strength coach C.J. Stockel will be inducted into the National High School Strength Coach Hall of Fame.

Submitted photo. Rabun County strength coach C.J. Stockel will be inducted into the National High School Strength Coach Hall of Fame.

Stockel strong choice for strength coach hall of fame

A defensive end speed rushes a left tackle in football to grasp and yank down a quarterback for sack. A sprinter blazes out of his blocks on the starter’s gunfire; leans with the curve around the track; and pumps his knees like pistons on the straightway across the finish line.
Photo courtesy Austin Poffenberger. Randy Morris will become the Tallulah Falls School Tennis Youth Development coordinator after 20 years as the tennis program’s coach. The 2022 TFS boys and girls teams made it to state.

Photo courtesy Austin Poffenberger. Randy Morris will become the Tallulah Falls School Tennis Youth Development coordinator after 20 years as the tennis program’s coach. The 2022 TFS boys and girls teams made it to state.

Longtime Indians tennis coach Morris moves into new role within program

Longtime TFS tennis coach Randy Morris is moving to a new role within the Tallulah Falls tennis program. After more than two decades of fostering relationships with countless student athletes, he will continue to develop those relationships in the sport of tennis in a new position.

State Final Four

The Rabun County girls tennis team’s history-making run ended May 5 on the blue courts of Pace Academy in the Class AA state tournament Final Four. The 4-0 loss for the Ladycats in Atlanta was the girls tennis program’s first-ever appearance in the GHSA semifinals.