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Michael D. Chason Director of Public Relations ABAC 30 -- 2802 Moore Highway Tifton, GA 31793-2601 Phone 229-391-5055 Fax 229-391-4781 mchason@abac.edu

IMMEDIATE January 21, 2009

ABAC ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME TO INDUCT 1984 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM

TIFTON—The first national championship team in the history of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College will be inducted into the ABAC Athletics Hall of Fame on Feb. 13.

Coach Norman “Red” Hill and the 1984 men’s tennis team won the National Junior College Athletic Association championship, the first of five national titles in the history of the college.

Other inductees include Ellen Vickers, who was the coach for the 1991 national champion women’s softball team; Dorsey Brooks, who played on the 1937 men’s state championship basketball team; Cook Holliday, who was the first ABAC athlete to qualify for the National Junior College track meet in 1962, P.W. Bryan, Jr., a standout baseball and basketball player at ABAC in 1955-57, and Newell “Sarge” Dorsey, who served for 12 years as Intramural Director at the college.

Tickets are now available at a cost of $20 per person for a 4:30 p.m. dinner on Feb. 13 in the Grand Lobby of ABAC Lakeside. Tickets can be purchased from the ABAC Athletics Office by calling Shirley Wilson at (229) 391-4930.

The honorees for this year’s Hall of Fame class will then be recognized at the ABAC tennis match at the Red Hill Tennis Center.

ABAC initiated the Athletics Hall of Fame during the 100^th birthday celebration last year. The first inductees included Thomas Cheney; Bruce Gressette, Norman Hill, Orion Mitchell, Philip Simpson, and Milena Stanoytcheva.

“That first group really set a high standard for the Hall of Fame,” Athletics Director Alan Kramer said. “I think this year’s inductees had some amazing accomplishments as well.”

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