Macon Touchdown Club

Can you believe that August 1st is just a day away?

The Macon Bacon will start a best of 3 play-off series tonight in Savannah, against the Bananas, and will host Game 2 tomorrow night in Macon, at Luther Williams Field. Game starts at 7:00PM, and tickets are on sale now. Get your tickets in a section that has the big ceiling fans, for the most comfortable game viewing.

I hope that everyone is doing well, as we get closer and closer to our first meeting of the year on Monday night, September 12th.Coach Brian Bohannon, Head football coach at Kennesaw State University will be our first speaker of the year.
We should have four weeks of OrthoGeorgia Players of the Week to recognize at the first meeting.

We are only 20 days away from the Macon Touchdown Club Middle Georgia Kick-off Classic, held at Mercer University’s Five Star Stadium. It should be a great day of High school football, with Jones County taking on Northside, and Northeast taking on Mary Persons.
This will be the 7th year of the Macon Touchdown Club Middle Georgia Kick-off Classic, and has been a great event, and a great way to promote high school football, and raise funds for the Macon Touchdown Club Educational Foundation.
If you would like to Volunteer to assist with this event, please reach out to King Kemper at kkemper@thesummitgroupmacon.com

We are only 43 days away from our first Macon Touchdown Club meeting of the Fall of 2022. It should be a fun and exciting season for us.
Our Dues will remain at $250.00 for our 2022 Season. As always, this covers the 12 meetings in the Fall, and the Spring Jamboree in early March, with Coach Kirby Smart.

If you are not a member of the Macon Touchdown Club, and would like some information, please reach out to me. We would love to have you join us in the Fall.

The Membership Package should be mailed out next week, so be looking for it in the mail.
If you would like to go ahead and mail in your check, send it to:

Macon Touchdown Club
PO Box 7946
Macon, Ga. 31209

Russell Deese heads up the committee for the OrthoGeorgia Players of the Week awards. If you would like to be a part of this committee, please reach out to Russell at thesportsbeat@hotmail.com

Confirmed Speakers
Coach Brian Bohannon – Kennesaw State
Mark Schlabach, ESPN and Best Selling Author
Bill King – The Bill King Show
Coach Chris Hatcher – Samford
Coach Clay Helton – Georgia Southern
Coach Drew Cronic – Mercer
Robin Hines, Jr. – GHSA Executive Director
Coach Rob Manchester – GMC
Coach Geoff Collins – Georgia Tech
Wes Durham – ACC and Fox Sports Network Announcer
Dari Nowhkaw – SEC Network – Dari will be with us on the Monday night of the SEC Championship Game week.

Look forward to seeing everyone real soon.

Thank You for being Members, Sponsors, or Friends of the Macon Touchdown Club. The Macon Touchdown Club is as important today as it was when created in 1946.

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Myles Brown – Covenant Academy

Coleman Cauley – First Presbyterian Day School

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The Bobby Gene Sanders Memorial Scholarship was established to recognize a young person’s accomplishments on and off the field as well as in the classroom. By evaluating the academics, community service, athletic accomplishments and leadership qualities of these outstanding scholar athletes, the Club awards a monetary scholarship to honor the student athlete and further their education.

Through the fundraising efforts of the Macon Touchdown Club, the Macon Touchdown Club Educational Foundation maintains the endowment in order to fund the scholarships this year, as well as future scholarships. Since 1983, the Foundation has awarded over $382,000 in scholarships for college bound scholar athletes.

If you would like to make a contribution to the Foundation, please go to www.macontouchdownclub.com/foundation for more information.

Camden Smith – First Presbyterian Day School

Mr. Smith is a great example of a community servant leader. His volunteered time to help with Middle Georgia Special Olympics and Worship team leader for High School Chapel are just a few examples of his compassion for others. And are a portion of the 120 hours he has given in service to his community and school. Camden is a team captain for his football team and participate in other varsity sports and is vice-president of his Sr Class. While doing all of this Mr. Smith maintained a 4.0 GPA with 7 AP classes and 1 dual enrollment course. He is an honor roll and national honor society member. The words his coach and teachers use when describing Camden are “inspirational, leader, dedicated, and compassionate”.

Charlie Morris – Tattnall Square Academy

Mr. Morris maintained a 4.0GPA and scored 1340 on the SAT. In addition to superb academics Mr Morris is secretary of the student council, beta club member, Captain of the football team, President North Macon Youth Leadership Council. Charlie works full time during the summer and was 1st team all-region baseball player on the state champion team. Mr. Morris volunteers over 40 hours on community service projects each summer.

Grayson Dugger – Jones County High School

Mr Dugger’s 1520 SAT score along with a 4.0 GPA while taking 13 AP courses is most impressive.

Grayson accomplished these high academics while also being a 3-sport outstanding athlete (football, wrestling, track and field). He is an active member of technology students’ association, beta club and Georgia Certificate of Merit recipient. Mr. Dugger led his wrestling team to the elite 8 and was captain of his football team and was 1st team all-region and GACA all-state team. Grayson will be attending Georgia Tech.

Sushrith Panda – Central High School

Mr. Panda holds a 3.94 gpa and is ranked 4th academically in his senior class. Sushrith boast an impressive 1380 SAT score while actively serving his community. Some of his many projects include cleaning up the Ocmulgee River, helping the homeless in the daybreak event, multiple projects as an Eagle Scout and was awarded the Order of the Arrow in his scouting activities. In his school life his honors are many special achievements in robotics, beta club, all A Honor Roll, Captain of his soccer team and Captain of his cross country team. As a kicker, he made all of his PATs except one and averaged over 50 yards per kick off. Mr. Panda will be graduating early at the age of “16”.

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The Macon Touchdown Club Middle Georgia Kick-off Classic is excited to have these four great High School football teams to compete in the seventh year of the Kick-off Classic. The Macon Touchdown Club Middle Georgia Kick-off Classic has a dual purpose, first is to promote high school football in Middle Georgia, the second is to raise funds for the Macon Touchdown Club Educational Foundation.

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I had the pleasure of working with this group of Officers this year. I wanted to say a big Thank You for all that you do for the Macon Touchdown Club.

Left to Right: Garland Tyner (Treasurer), Russell Deese (Secretary), Gail Mansfield (Vice President), Bryant Longshore (Executive Director), Davey Keys (President).

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Mark Schlabach  graduated from the University of Georgia, Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. He covered SEC football, and various sports along with  the University of Georgia for nine years as a journalist for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. He was a columnist for the Washington Post for two years covering college football and basketball.

Mark is an accomplished author, writing almost a dozen books including the New York Times best seller, Called to Coach: Reflections on Life, Faith, and Football. He also collaborated on several books about the Duck Commander Family. Mark also co-authored the book, Heisman, The Man Behind the Trophy. He now resides in Madison, Georgia with his wife and three children.

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Mr. Jordan is a two-sport professional athlete, who began his MLB debut in 1992 and football in 1989. He has played baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves as well as the Dodgers and Rangers in the 15 seasons he played in the big leagues. He was named a National League All-star in 1999. Jordan began playing professional football with the Atlanta Falcons while still playing baseball for the Cardinals. In total, he played 36 NFL games, spanning three seasons and finished with five interceptions and recovered four fumbles. He played all 16 games for the Falcons in the 1990 and 1991 seasons. In 1998, he founded the Brian Jordan Foundation, a three-core program which includes literacy, health/fitness and scholarship which helps children reach their full potential in life. Not only is he an analyst for Fox Sports South, he is an author and a highly sought after speaker.

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