Fall 2022

Georgia Southern Remembers Former Georgia First Lady Betty Foy Sanders

Georgia Southern University lost a devoted and cherished supporter with the death of former Georgia first lady Betty Foy Sanders. An accomplished artist, Sanders had a lifelong interest in arts education and in Georgia Southern. She leaves behind her own artwork as well as the Betty Foy Sanders Georgia Artists Collection, an assemblage of talented…
Fighting COVID-19 Inside Confinement Facilities

Georgia Southern University is stepping up efforts to combat COVID-19. It has partnered with the Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) to better fight COVID in the state’s jails, prisons and other confinement facilities. The University has established the Institute for Health Logistics & Analytics to manage a new $7.2 million contract along with the…
Overcoming the Odds

Two Georgia Southern Women Break into the Senior Ranks of Division I College Athletics Maybe it was sparked by the excitement and fulfillment of playing in college sports. Maybe it was their love of hanging around with their teammates. But just maybe it was their academic background at Georgia Southern that did the trick.These alumnae…
Passion and Perseverance

Eagles Linebacker Todd Bradley-Glenn Shows Grit On and Off the Field Todd Bradley-Glenn knows what it’s like to start from scratch. The 2022 football season is his seventh season as a linebacker with the Eagles and will be only the fourth in which he’s played. Hampered by injuries that would have permanently sidelined many players, Bradley-Glenn…
Eagles on the Virtual Battlefield

Eagle Esports Brings GATA to College Call of Duty League Georgia Southern University student-athletes have left their mark on fields and courts, the track and the range. Now they’re also creating a name for themselves on the battlefield — the virtual battlefield, that is. Eagle Esports is a group of Georgia Southern student-gamers who play the Call of…
Women’s Rifle Team Wins 2022 Southern Conference Championship

The flashing lights of the black SUV escort was the first thing you saw. Then the bus holding the Georgia Southern Rifle Team rounded the corner towards the Shooting Sports Education Center on March 6, their homecoming from the 2022 conference meet. Cheerleaders, coaches and fans hooted and hollered as the Southern Conference Rifle Champions…
Women’s Golf Win First Sun Belt Championship

Freshman Sarunchana Rattanasin earned medalist honors, senior Mia Kness tied for second and Georgia Southern won the Sun Belt Women’s Golf Championship on Tuesday, April 19, at the LPGA International Hills Course in Daytona Beach, Florida. It’s the first Sun Belt women’s golf title for the Eagles as Georgia Southern began its women’s golf program…
Sidelines

WOMEN’S TENNIS Women’s Tennis Notches Fifth Straight Winning Season Georgia Southern’s women’s tennis team’s winning season ended in the first round of the 2022 Sun Belt Conference Women’s Tennis Championships held in Peachtree City, Georgia. They were eliminated from the tournament by Louisiana. Georgia Southern finished its season at 12-11, its fifth straight winning season…
Eagle Offense Soars in Blue-White Game

Under new Head Coach Clay Helton, offense abounded at Georgia Southern’s annual Blue vs. White Spring Game on April 23. The White Squad (offense) amassed 51 points and nearly 700 yards of offense to the Blue Squad’s (defense) 28 points thanks to several big stops. In front of a crowd of more than 4,000 fans,…
In Memoriam – Fall 2022

1930s Charles Waldrop Jr. (’39) of Savannah passed away Oct. 20, 2021, at age 102. The 1939 Armstrong Junior College graduate served four years in the U.S. Army and spent 18 months in the European Theatre with the Eighth Air Force during World War II. A registered pharmacist for 50 years, he co-owned Crumbley’s Pharmacy. 1940s…