Good News from Etowah High School

Etowah High School’s team won the 2013 Georgia Athletic Coaches Association’s 6A State Weightlifting Championships – its third consecutive state championship in the state’s largest classification in weightlifting.
 
The Eagles outlasted Milton HS 74-73 to take the title during the event held on Saturday, March 16, at Lambert High School.
 
The Etowah HS team had 10 members place in the top five of their weight class including three winners and four runners-up.
 
State Champions are: Michael Hunt (under 140lb division), Brandon Fortgang (141-150lb division), and Stanlee Logue (161-170lb division). Runners-up are: Austin Franzen (151-160lb division), Raishod Devezin (161-170lb division), Michael McCauley (171-180lb division) and Jakob Hassan (226-245lb division).
Additional honors are: Nick Searcy, third place; Preston White, fourth place; and Dalton Trogstad, fifth place.
 
Other members of the team are: James Arnold, Pierce Blanchard, Bryce Coroi, Brandon Engle, Keith Gordon, Haven Hill, Malley Hill, Forrest Kelly, Brad Morgan, Scott Morgan and Chandler Steele.  The team is coached by the Strength and Conditioning Coordinator Brett Vavra and Head Football Coach Dave Svehla.
 
Etowah High junior Alex C. Johnson has been selected for the U.S. Department of State’s prestigious student foreign language program.
 
The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) provides merit-based scholarships for eligible high school students to learn less commonly taught
languages in summer and academic-year overseas immersion programs.  Alex has been selected to study Russian language this summer in Russia.
 
The highly competitive program is part of a U.S. government initiative to develop future leaders with the linguistic skills and cultural knowledge needed to “promote
international dialogue and support American engagement abroad.”
 
Etowah High FFA students MiKayla Black and Logan Gantt and Advisor Ashley Rivers recently visited the State Capitol as part of Georgia FFA Day at the Capitol.  The FFA Day activities kicked off with a legislative breakfast that was hosted by State FFA President Dolly Melton, and featured a keynote address
from Governor Nathan Deal.  Twenty-two FFA chapters attended the event, including nearly 200 FFA members and advisors, FFA Alumni members and Young
Farmer members.