40 Tech athletes to graduate this weekend
Georgia Tech will hold graduation ceremonies Saturday at the Georgia Dome. Among the graduates will be 40 current or former Tech athletes and managers. Notables include football players Chandler Anderson, Preston Lyons, B.J. Machen, Steven Sylvester and Omoregie Uzzi. Anderson, in fact, will report to Naval Air Station Pensacola Jan. 3, three days after playing his final game for Tech in the Sun Bowl.
Former Tech baseball player Charlie Blackmon, who made his major-league debut this season with the Colorado Rockies, will also graduate, as will three-time tennis All-American Guillermo Gomez, whose Tech career ended this past spring before turning professional.
Kristen Adkins, softball (STC)
Doug Allvine, former football (MBA)
Chandler Anderson, football (BSBA)
Sarah Anderson, women’s track/cross country (BMED)
Cy Avila, cheerleading (MGT)
Charles Blackmon, baseball (BSBA)
Zach Brewster, baseball (MGT)
Joseph DiDia, men’s track/cross country (BSBA)
David Duncan, baseball (BSBA)
Tiffany Eason, cheerleading (PUBP)
Alexander Erickson, men’s track/cross country (ME)
Samuel Freeman, former football (MGT)
Guillermo Gomez, men’s tennis (IE)
Joseph Hardy, former football (IE)
Cali Harrison, women’s swimming (MGT)
Christy Jones, softball (ME)
Aleksandra Krupina, women’s tennis (GEML)
Preston Lyons, football (HTS)
B.J. Machen, football (STC)
Joshua Martin, men’s track/cross country (ME)
William Miller, golf (IE)
Thomas Oatts, men’s track/cross country (ECE)
Dean O’Brien, men’s tennis (MGT)
Aleria Perry, cheerleading (MGT)
Paul Reese, former football (BSBA)
Charles Rohling, men’s track/cross country (MGT)
Matthew Simonds, baseball (BSBA)
Kevin Skenes, men’s swimming (ME)
Michael St. Denis, former football (PSYC)
Alexander Stephenson, men’s track/cross country (CE)
Kylie Stradley, cheerleading (BSBA)
Steven Sylvester, football (STC)
Duncan Thompson, men’s track/cross country (ECE)
Mary Ashley Tippins, volleyball (MGT)
Christian Townsend, cheerleading (MGT)
Jacob Tzegaebe, men’s swimming (CE)
Omoregie Uzzi, football (BSBA)
Conner Volpe, manager (AE)
Alexander Walker, former football (MGT)
Joshua Wallace, former football (MGT)
Among the acronyms:
STC – Science, Technology and Culture
BSBA – Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
BMED – Biomedical Engineering
PUBP – Public Policy
GEML – Global Economics and Modern Languages
HTS – History, Technology and Society
ECE – Electrical and Computer Engineering
CE – Civil Engineering
AE – Aerospace Engineering
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77 comments Add your comment
General Wood
December 18th, 2011
7:28 am
Jimmy, certainly you’ve noticed that this newspaper covers anything related to UGA. They even have an article about the “possibility” of a QB transferring. I do believe the UGA football factory has the win at all cost part covered. Unless you are know CPJ intimately you should be quiet.
Congratulations to all of these fine young people and good luck!
bulldog steve
December 18th, 2011
8:04 am
Hey supersize, maybe the AJC thought all the Tech fans were already in Texas for the bowl game. Have the fans bought over 1000 tickets yet? Impressive.
george p burdell
December 18th, 2011
8:43 am
Congrats to all the student athletes who graduated!! You all should be very proud of yourselves, no matter what those trembling chihuahuas may say to you. Look at it this way, UGAs housing degree gives you a tool belt and hammer. GT’s building and construction degree gives you a suit and tie to go boss around mutts who were gives a hammer as a graduation present.
Go Jackets!
george p burdell
December 18th, 2011
8:50 am
In response to General Wood, I agree with your statement. Have you read the comments after the mutts loose a game? They want their entire coaching staff fired! Talk about hypocrites…
Wild Bill
December 18th, 2011
9:09 am
Congrats to all of those who got out, especially those who participated in sports! I will never forget the organ rising in the Fox Theater playing the Ramblin Wreck song back in 1970 and yes, it is good to be one of the 17%. THWG
General Wood
December 18th, 2011
9:33 am
Yes Mr. Burdell, CMR is a fine man until he loses a game then the bandwagon fans want him gone. It’s sad but the nature of some of their fan base.
General Wood
December 18th, 2011
9:36 am
bulldog steve, you should purchase a ticket to the Sun Bowl for a service member. That would be impressive.
Hey, George Stein...
December 18th, 2011
11:01 am
Please correct this statement from an infamous GT poster named george p burdell “Have you read the comments after the mutts loose a game?” (poasted today at 8:50am)…you holier than thou hypocrit…and bad lawyer, too…and probably worse human being…but a Tech apologist just the same…
DJ
December 18th, 2011
11:49 am
Seriously AJC, why in the world would either article about Tech’s graduates or Georgia’s graduates be in a blog format? This is actually solid, meaningful information about the accomplishments off the field, and you know only a bunch of complete idiots (from both sides) will come on here and say the dumbest things. Oh well, congrats to these athletes. I still count “getting out” of Ma Tech as one of my life’s greatest accomplishments, and it definitely prepared me for all I’ve faced out in the real world.
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December 18th, 2011
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George Stein
December 18th, 2011
1:06 pm
That’s funny, Hey, George Stein. In a post criticizing someone else for his grammar, you misspell hypocrite.
The point of my prior comment – which I’m not surprised you missed – was that some guy used methinks in his post because he thought it would make him sound smart. Unfortunately for him, he misspelled it and confirmed his own idiocy.
Supersize that order, mutt
December 18th, 2011
2:34 pm
The only thing that relates most UGA fans to CLASS is that it ends in A S S, which describes the majority of them
Supersize that order, mutt
December 18th, 2011
2:38 pm
bulldog steve, have you bought a ticket for the Outback Bowl, or do you just live vicariously through the accomplishments of a bunch of kids you have never even met, like most of the mutts who post on here?
RambleOn84
December 18th, 2011
3:56 pm
Was it really necessary to allow comments on this type of story?
Oh, I forgot. Over half of the AJC’s “clicks” come from typical Tech-UGA banter. And what better way to stir the fire than to bring out the old “wait, I thought all Tech athletes were engineers HAR HAR HAR!” lines from the clever dog fans?
Keep up the good work, AJC!
Uh, George Stein...
December 18th, 2011
4:08 pm
….I believe grammar and spelling are two entirely different things – but, then again, one would not expect a Tech guy to be able to necessarily know the difference…and, to top it off, YOU missed the point of the question about geroge p burdell’s sentence that misspelled the word “lose”…but, keep on pluggin’ – maybe you will win one of these “war of words”, possibly once every eleven posts…
Hey, supersize...
December 18th, 2011
6:31 pm
…your explanation of the word “class”, and then your application to the majority of UGA fans (do you even know what the word “majority” means) may be right on – however, it also applies to you as you continue to prove it everyday with your posts about anything NOT GT…
Supersize that order, mutt
December 18th, 2011
6:34 pm
@Hey, supersize, might I remind you that this is a TECH BLOG!!! I talk about anything and everything that is GT when the opportunity arises, but then trolls like you come on here and immediately steer the conversation away from anything pertinent to the topics being discussed. I don’t obsess over any of our opponents. If you could say the same thing, then you would not be posting garbage on a TECH BLOG!!!
George Stein
December 18th, 2011
8:09 pm
You believe wrong, Uh George Stein.
As to my earlier post, explain how it was hypocritical, loser. I’m assuming you can’t because it wasn’t.
Golden Hand
December 19th, 2011
7:49 am
Does anyone know whether Uzzi has been accepted to grad school? He was a RS junior this year, so would be really nice to get him back, but I understand getting into Tech’s business grad school is nothing like automatic for football players.
RAMBLE ON!!!
December 19th, 2011
9:27 am
Congratulations to all.
Just remember, when hiring a UGA graduate, to be very thorough checking their work references (if they have any).
dawgfan
December 19th, 2011
10:25 am
Of the 40 only 13 were engineering majors. Of that 13 only one was on the football team. We bring this up because Techies are all sore losers who hide behind this engineering crap when their football team loses to Georgia. Oh, and its also in your fight song you clueless morons. Looking at this list maybe it should go something like this instead:
“I’m a ramblin’ wreck from Georgia Tech and a helluva History, Technology and Science major.”
Georgia Tech=JOKE.
juvenal
December 19th, 2011
11:01 am
made 2 As and a C in calculus, fan-you? the math the IM people take is not the same as the other folks, but it will only be a joke when coaches that recruit against us stop showing the textbook to kids….
RAMBLE ON!!!
December 19th, 2011
11:37 am
“sore losers”
“clueless morons”
dawgfan=inferiority complex.
Supersize that order, mutt
December 19th, 2011
12:29 pm
dawgfan, I can assure you that even the HST major is a harder major than any that the mutts take
News Flash
December 19th, 2011
2:54 pm
After reading multiple blog entries I have conclude – half of the posters (GT & UGA) haven’t graduated from any school and most certainly not GT or UGA. I mean really – it’s not spelling – it’s word usage.
A few would be commical but the volumn here is a tragic display of our failed public education system
Hey supersize
December 19th, 2011
2:59 pm
Your arrogance and ignorance is showing. You cannot “assure” anything without having firsthand knowledge.
damngooddawg!
December 23rd, 2011
5:08 pm
Congrats to Tech grads! Do well in life!