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News Articles: High School Sports

About two dozen high school cheerleaders, their coach and another woman are shown in a posed photo underneath a GHSA logo and next to a sign that says "GHSA Champions."

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  • Sports

Georgia cheerleaders head to national championship. But it almost didn't happen

The Collins Hill High School team is going to the nationals after winning two battles — one at the state championship with other cheerleading teams and one with the Georgia High School Association.

February 05, 2026
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
Portal Flag Football players in the GHSA 2021 Championship game

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  • Sports

Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation grants $6.3 million to six Atlanta School Districts for sports access

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation announced they are granting funding totaling $6.3 million to six Metro Atlanta school districts over three years. The funding will increase access to sports at the middle school and high school level. 

December 18, 2025
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By:
  • GPB News Staff
Harris County flag football team wins first state championship in program history. Courtesy of The Ledger-Enquirer

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  • Sports

Harris County flag football team wins first state championship in program history

The Harris County High School flag football team has won the program’s first state championship.

December 16, 2025
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By:
  • Mark Rice and
  • The Ledger Enquirer
2024 Flag Football game featuring North Oconee, Dacula, Rockdale.

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  • Sports

Atlanta Falcons host 200 students in annual Girls Flag Football Showcase

200 hundred high school athletes from across Georgia showed off their skills in a combine-like workout in front of college flag football coaches, hoping to secure offers to play at the next level.

August 29, 2025
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By:
  • GPB News Staff ,
  • GPB Sports Staff ,
  • and 1 more
Georgia's Mason Howell, a high school junior, qualified for the U.S. Open during field play at the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta on June 2, 2025.

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  • Sports

Thomasville, Ga., high school golfer Mason Howell beats bogeys to qualify for U.S. Open

The 17-year-old high school junior went 36 holes without a bogey.

June 04, 2025
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By:
  • Associated Press and
  • GPB News Staff
players and officials

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  • News

Lawmakers and athletic leaders encourage more flag football for girls

Georgia lawmakers and athletic leaders gathered at Mercedes-Benz stadium Thursday to spread the word about a girls' sport that's growing in popularity. 

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Southwest guard Chase Dupree screams after a dunk during the Patriots’ 65-54 semifinal win over Toombs County. Southwest will play B.E.S.T. Academy for the state championship Saturday at the Macon Coliseum. Jason Vorhees / The Melody

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  • Sports

Southwest advances to first state title game since 1989 with thrilling 65-54 win over Toombs County

The Patriots kept the lead and ran out the clock on Toombs County, riding the energy of the impassioned crowd to secure a 65-54 win in the Final Four of the GHSA Class A-Division I state tournament Saturday night and advance to the championship game in Macon next weekend.

March 03, 2025
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  • Micah Johnston
Senator Greg Dolezal

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  • News

State Senate committee lays groundwork for restricting transgender athletes

The state Senate committee considering the participation of transgender athletes in sports released its findings Friday. 

December 16, 2024
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Grayson High School basketball player dunks

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  • News

Here's what to watch for in the Georgia High School Basketball Championships this week

The Georgia High School Basketball Championships are getting started Wednesday at the Macon Coliseum and GPB will be broadcasting it live.

March 07, 2023
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By:
  • Peter Biello

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  • Politics

Dave Matthews visits Cobb County as Georgia set a new single-day record for in-person early voting

On the Tuesday, Nov. 29 edition of the Georgia Today podcast: Georgia sets a record for early in-person voting, the fastest growing sport in Georgia schools is flag football, and Dave Matthews makes an appearance in Cobb County for Sen. Raphael Warnock.

November 29, 2022
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  • Peter Biello
McEachern varsity high school flag football team

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  • Sports

Girls flag football is the fastest-growing sport in Georgia schools

As the girls high school flag football playoff games get underway in Georgia, GPB Morning Edition host Leah Fleming finds out what makes the game so attractive to players.

 

November 29, 2022
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By:
  • Leah Fleming
Girls sports

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  • News

Ga. Senate lawmakers pass bill that bans transgender athletes from school sports

The Georgia Senate passed the “Save Girls Sports Act,” which would ban Georgia schools from competing against others that allow transgender athletes to play on girl’s sports teams and would require student athletes to participate in sports according to the sex on their birth certificate.

February 24, 2022
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By:
  • Riley Bunch
People try to get on a bus as they leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Russia attacks Ukraine; Women and the ballot in 2022; 'Red meat' issues in session

Thursday on Political Rewind: How will a deeply divided electorate respond to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Also, our panel discussed the role women on both sides of the aisle are playing in this year’s election — as candidates, organizers and voters.

February 24, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Sam Bermas-Dawes ,
  • and 1 more
Tattnall Square Academy wrestler Grady Tisdale practices at Macon’s Rush Mixed Martial Arts gym. The only member of his high school wrestling team, Tisdale is one of the best wrestlers in Georgia at his weight class.

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  • Sports

A team of one: Tattnall’s only wrestler Grady Tisdale has his eye on a state title

Grady Tisdale, a senior at Tattnall Square Academy, is the school’s only wrestler.

February 11, 2022
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By:
  • Tanya Ott
Imani Bell's father (in purple) stands with his attorneys, reacting to news of criminal charges against two high school basketball coaches involved in the heat-related death of the 16-year-old in August 2019.

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  • News

Family Reacts to New Criminal Charges Against Coaches In Girl's 2019 Heat-Related Death

Two Clayton County high school basketball coaches have been indicted on criminal charges of second degree murder, second degree child cruelty, involuntary manslaughter, and reckless conduct.

August 11, 2021
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  • Amanda Andrews
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