Athletic Association OKs budget, hikes Georgia-Florida ticket prices
May 26, 2011 by Georgia Sports Communications
Filed under Football, Sanford Knows Best, Sports
A budget of $89.95 million for fiscal year 2012 and hike in 2012 Georgia-Florida football game ticket prices were approved by the Georgia Athletic Association Board of Directors at its annual spring meeting Thursday at St. Simons Island, Ga. The $89.95 million budget figure represents an increase of approximately $5 million over the fiscal year [...]
Diamond Dogs blanked in SEC Tournament opener
May 26, 2011 by Georgia Sports Communications
Filed under Baseball, Sports
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Third-ranked Vanderbilt posted a 10-0 SEC Tournament win over Georgia Wednesday as a pair of Commodores combined on a one-hitter at Regions Park. Georgia (28-29) entered the tournament as one of the top defensive teams in the league (.975 Fielding Percentage) but a couple of miscues in the second frame led to [...]
Garrapiz, Gullickson advance in NCAA singles competition
May 25, 2011 by Georgia Sports Communications
Filed under Sports, Tennis
STANFORD, Calif. – Georgia senior Javier Garrapiz advanced to the second round of the NCAA singles championship with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory over 23rd-ranked Raony Carvalho of Texas Tech Wednesday evening at Stanford’s Taube Tennis Center. With the sets even, Garrapiz broke twice to build a 5-0 lead and cruised to a 6-1 decision [...]
UGA Track & Field aims for NCAA championship qualifiers
May 25, 2011 by Georgia Sports Communications
Filed under Sports, Track & Field
Forty members of Georgia’s track and field teams traveled to Bloomington, Ind. to prepare for the NCAA East Preliminary Round, which runs from Thursday to Saturday. Twenty-two Bulldog men and 18 Lady Bulldogs made the trip in hopes of finishing in the top 12 in their respective events and advancing to the NCAA Outdoor Championships [...]
Sports Notebook: UGA swim coach honored
May 25, 2011 by Georgia Sports Communications
Filed under Blogs, Dog Days, Sports, Swimming & Diving
Harvey Humphries, Associate Head Coach of swimming and diving at Georgia, has been chosen as the 2011 recipient of the Richard E. Steadman Award by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. The award is given annually in honor of the CSCAA’s former president, Robert E. Steadman, who throughout his 50-year career maintained caring relationships [...]
UGA researchers win $1.34 million climate change grant
May 25, 2011 by UGA News Service
Filed under Agriculture, Environment, News, Research
Researchers and an outreach specialist at the University have been awarded a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to identify and promote ways pine forests can be used to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The grant is part of a larger $20 million award being [...]
Hines Ward dances to title; Isner almost pulls off huge upset
May 25, 2011 by Staff reports
Filed under Blogs, Dog Days
Some notes about former Bulldogs: Former Georgia football standout and Pittsburgh Steeler Hines Ward can add another description to his list: Dancing with the Stars winner. The former Super Bowl MVP was in championship form Tuesday night, as he and dancing partner Kym Johnson won the title after judges’ scores and audience votes gave the [...]
Recent UGA graduate who fell from trestle remembered as “free spirited”
May 25, 2011 by Staff reports
Filed under News
A 2011 University graduate died Tuesday after he was found laying on the ground near the bottom of the Murmur Trestle in Dudley Park. In a special media release, the Athens-Clarke County Police reported Richard O. Sabine, Jr., 22, “may have fell or possibly jumped from the trestle.” Wednesday afternoon, ACC Capt. Clarence Holeman said [...]
Diamond Dogs open SEC Tournament with No. 3 Vandy
May 24, 2011 by Georgia Sports Communications
Filed under Baseball, Sports
The Georgia baseball team (28-28, 16-14 SEC) enters the SEC Tournament as the No. 5 overall seed and will face third-ranked Vanderbilt (44-9, 22-8 SEC) on Wednesday night at Regions Park in Hoover, Ala. The Georgia-Vanderbilt game begins 30 minutes after the conclusion of the South Carolina-Auburn contest slated to begin at 4:30 p.m. CDT. [...]
Bulldog tennis players begin NCAA singles competition
May 24, 2011 by Georgia Sports Communications
Filed under Sports, Tennis
STANFORD, Calif. – Three members of the Georgia men’s tennis team including Wil Spencer, Sadio Doumbia and Javier Garrapiz, along with UGA’s defending women’s champion Chelsey Gullickson will begin play in the singles portion of the NCAA Championships Wednesday at Stanford University. Spencer will play at 1 p.m. ET against Louisville’s Austen Childs, while Doumbia [...]
