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2B I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I dawsonnews.com
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13,2018
Future Tiger basketball camp set to begin June 19
From staff reports
The Dawson County
Tigers basketball program
is offering a summer camp
for upcoming sixth, sev
enth and eighth graders.
The coaching staff
would like to use this
opportunity to build rela
tionships and develop fun
damental skills with the
“Future Stars” of Dawson
County.
Tiger Development
Camp is open to all stu
dents planning to attend,
play or tryout for basket
ball at Dawson Middle
School or Dawson County
Junior High School.
Players will learn offen
sive and defensive strategy
used in the high school’s
program.
The camp is under the
direction of Head Coach
Chad Pittman and
Assistant Coach Michael
Parker. It will be held from
6 p.m. to 8 p.m. June
19-21 at the Dawson
Count High School gym.
The fee for each player
is $25. All players will
receive a Tiger Basketball
shirt.
For more information or
to sign up for the camp,
contact Chad Pittman at
cpittman@dawson.kl2.
ga.us.
United Karate takes trophies at regional tournament
For the Dawson County News
Pictured from left to right,Travis Hamner (instructor), Brad Bowelle (chief instructor), Alexis Weir, Kason Komuda, Christopher
Frausto, Aiden Marshall, Austin Marshall, Wayne Marshall (instructor), Brayden Sheriff, Kennedy Henderson, Jon Gooby,
Hunter Slay, Jameson Ballard, Asa Payne, Wade Flemming, Jake McKaskle, Harley Slay, Lola Harris, Nolan Geraghty, Tyler
Goodnough, Xander Gaddis, Margot Mildenhall, Nathan Gooby, Jonathan Buckley, Cody Thornton and Josh Thornton
(instructor). Not Pictured: Rowen Smith, Owen Woody, Thor Stringer, Ava Foster, Gideon O'Bryant, Jasper Skogman, John
Bozeman, Nate Carder and Luke Scheinoha.
United Karate Studio of
Dawsonville sent 32 competi
tors to a regional tournament
in Ellijay in May. Eighteen of
those were first-time compet
itors and almost every one of
them earned at least one tro
phy. The Dawsonville studio
is a relatively new studio
while the Dahlonega location
has been established for over
a decade. Chief Instructor
Brad Bowelle said what
makes the Dawsonville story
special is all the success sto
ries coming from their first
tournament event.
“I believe a main reason for
these competitors’ successes
is that our United Karate
Studios of Dawsonville and
Dahlonega foster a strong
competitive spirit along with
laser-beam focus and excep
tional dedication to their
training,” Bowelle said.
FROM 1B
Camp
Mostellar, a lifelong soccer
player, participated in YMCA
leagues, high school teams and
even the Air Force’s practice
camp throughout his life and
helmed the soccer program in
Big Canoe where his children
played.
“We’ve lived up here since
2000. We have five kids and our
kids started playing soccer and
because we’re right there on that
Dawson-Pickens line, we had to
travel up to 80 miles for our kids
to play at the competitive level
that they needed,” Mostellar
said. “I got to thinking there has
to be a better way.”
And so UFA Mountains was
bom as a way to provide recre
ational and academy and select
soccer programs across rural
north Georgia.
Currently there are 800 recre
ational players and 200 academy
and select competitive players in
the division.
This week’s camp has been a
way for UFA to get out in the
community and help kids of all
ages develop their soccer skills.
“You can take a player who
may not be the best athlete but
he sees the game very well and
has very good technique and he
can be an excellent player,”
Mostellar said. “You can take a
very good athlete who may not
see the game as well who
doesn’t have the best technique
but he can also be an outstand
ing player because it’s not all
about genetics. It’s about the
technical ability - the passing,
the receiving, the dribbling - the
physical and the mental aspect
of it.”
Kids focused on the basic ele
ments most important to the
game: dribbling, passing, receiv
ing and trapping the ball and
shooting. Most importantly, they
had fun as they ran around the
field kicking the ball.
From simple warmups to
focusing on individual skills to
scrimmage games at the end of
each day, the campers were able
to develop important personal
skills and leam the importance
of teamwork.
“It’s open to everybody and
it’s an outstanding opportunity
to learn and to interact,”
Mostellar said. “It’s a great
teambuilding sport because
everybody gets the ball.
Everybody gets the opportunity
to make decisions on the field.”
The campers, ranging from
four to 13 years old, also learned
that they can become great play
ers through hard work and pas
sion, and that the size of the
player doesn’t matter in soccer.
“One of the things that I love
about soccer is that you don’t
have to be the biggest guy in the
world to play - the best player in
the world, (Lionel) Messi, is my
size only a lot more muscular
than I am - because everybody
is the same height when the
ball’s on the ground,” Mostellar
said.
FROM 1B
Sticker
play on the next level,”
Sweat said. “Not only does
she get to go play at the
next level she’s going to get
to go play in major Dl, so
goal accomplished.”
As a coach, Sweat is
excited and proud to see
Sticker achieve her goals.
“I know the feeling when
I get to go see our players
that we’ve had and they
walk out in the college uni
form - that does a coach’s
heart good,” he said. “I’ll
be glad to see it when it
happens and when I see her
ran out in a Clemson uni
form playing in an ACC
game. That’s something to
look forward to.”
As soon as she hit high
school her freshman year,
Sticker began making an
impact on the varsity team.
During her sophomore year
she became the team’s top
scorer and helped the Fady
Tigers reach the Elite Eight
in state competition.
During her junior year,
Sticker averaged 17.5
points per game. She also
hit her 1,000th point mile
stone and was recognized
for her achievement Feb. 9.
Her achievements kept
racking up as Sticker was
named to the Georgia
Athletic Coaches
Association All-State Girls
Basketball Team, selected
to the 7-AAA All-Region
Team and was invited to
play in the GACA North-
South Junior All-Star
Game March 17 at Dalton
High School.
“(Other coaches) want
her to play every sport here
but she plays so much bas
ketball during the off sea
son that she doesn’t have
time to play other sports
and I’m sure if she did she
would be good at any oth
ers that she’d play because
she just has that ability,”
Sweat said.
Sticker has always had
the drive and dedication for
basketball, possessing the
God-given abilities to be a
great athlete, Sweat said.
And what could have
been a major hiccup in her
career last season was only
a stumbling block in the
road as Sticker persevered
to return to the court after a
foot injury.
In the middle of the sea
son with rivalry games on
the horizon, Sticker was
out for six weeks recover
ing from four to five
sprained ankle ligaments.
“I kept my head up,”
Sticker said. “Everything
happens for a reason. I
believe that. I had to be
there for my teammates,
support them. Just because
I sat on the bench doesn’t
mean I wasn’t part of the
team.”
With the help of physical
therapy and a burning
desire to beat Fumpkin
County, she returned to
play Jan. 9 and continued
to be the team’s top scorer.
Because Sticker is enter
ing her senior year, she will
not be able to officially
sign an athletic scholarship
with Clemson until
November and as far as
Sweat knows, she will be
the first athlete from DCHS
to sign with a major Dl
school.
“Booking forward to that
day because then when you
put your name on that
paper it’s a little bit differ
ent than saying ‘yeah I’ll
come’ so that official sign
ing day is what we’re look
ing for then she’s really
going to Clemson,” Sweat
said.
But her time at Dawson
County is far from over. As
a rising senior, she has
become a team leader and
Sweat hopes Sticker will
help lead the team deep
into the state tournament
for the team’s seventh year
in a row.
“Not to be selfish but,
Clemson, we get her one
more year,” Sweat said,
laughing.
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Cats: $50
DOB: 4/5/2007
WEIGHT: 18.70 LBS
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Rusty does seem to be good with other dogs,
although we would always recommend a
meet and greet. He also like kids as well.
Rusty was surrendered to our shelter after
being gone for several years. His owners at
the time were travelinga lot more and,
unfortunately, were not ableto take Rusty
with them.
DOB: 6/7/2011
Ricci'sowner passed awayand his
sister brought her into our shelter in
hopes we could find a new Fur-Ever
home. She hasonly three legs as one
other back legs was amputated.
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