By Van Jensen on November 7, 2011
In September, the Atlantic Coast Conference accepted applications from the Pittsburgh and Syracuse to join the ACC. With the additions, the conference will include 14 teams and stretch across the entire East Coast. After the announcement, Tech athletic director Dan Radakovich spoke at a press conference about the expansion. What was the timeline of the [...]
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By Van Jensen on November 4, 2011
It was half an hour before the start of the 2011 Yellow Jackets football season, and a steady crowd filed into gate nine on Bobby Dodd Stadium’s east side, ready to watch Tech take on Western Carolina. A gold Jaguar pulled up along Techwood Drive, Yellow Jackets pennants flying from the rear windows. Out stepped [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Vol. 87, No. 7, Yellow Jackets
By Van Jensen on August 19, 2011
In years past, whenever inclement weather moved over Atlanta, the Georgia Tech football team was forced to vacate their on-campus practice field, board buses and ride over to the Georgia Dome. Now, they simply have to take a few steps inside the John and Mary Brock Football Practice Facility, which is planned to be completed [...]
Posted in Vol. 87, No. 6, Yellow Jackets
By Van Jensen on August 19, 2011
As Dean Reeves, Mgt 73, was walking from the barn to the paddock before the start of the 2011 Kentucky Derby, he heard a familiar chant. Unmistakable shouts of “Georgia Tech! Georgia Tech!” rose from a section of the more than 160,000 spectators in attendance. “Apparently word got out about the story behind our racing [...]
Posted in Vol. 87, No. 6, Yellow Jackets
By Rachael Maddux on August 19, 2011
Coach Bruce Heppler on what makes Georgia Tech golf great Bruce Heppler can’t seem to escape golf. Growing up, his parents and sister all played, and he financed his own club fees by chasing down range balls and washing clubs. But after his junior college cancelled its golf program his sophomore year, he set aside [...]
Posted in Excerpt, Vol. 87, No. 6, Yellow Jackets
By Van Jensen on April 29, 2011
In the world of competitive kayaking, only hundredths of a second separate the elite from the also-rans. The training is intense and goes year round. In the upper echelons of biomedical academia, graduate students often sacrifice their personal lives to distinguish themselves as researchers. While either of those would be challenge enough, James Wade, ISyE [...]
Posted in May/June 2011, Yellow Jackets
By Van Jensen on April 22, 2011
While a freshman at the Naval Academy, Brian Gregory might not have had the stature of 7-foot-tall All-American David Robinson, but he did have a reputation as a star player all the same. “He was a smart guy, super disciplined,” said Chris Thomas, who was in Gregory’s class and lived across the hall from him. [...]
Posted in Excerpt, May/June 2011, Yellow Jackets
By Van Jensen on April 22, 2011
The goal is not to win the Death Race, it is to simply finish. To accomplish that, one must endure 24 hours of physically grueling tasks mixed with an array of mental challenges. Barbed wire figures prominently. The organizers say it takes a lunatic to enter and a very special person to finish. Each year, [...]
Posted in Excerpt, May/June 2011, Yellow Jackets
By Van Jensen on February 21, 2011
Shaina Ervin spent her four years as a star pitcher at North Carolina State as a looming threat to the Georgia Tech softball team. Ervin, who is 6 feet 3 inches tall, led the Wolfpack to a successful run against the Yellow Jackets from 2003 to 2007 and helped her team win the 2006 ACC [...]
Posted in March/April 2011, Yellow Jackets
By GTalumni on February 18, 2011
By L. Mitchell Ginn On Jan. 24, 1964, the direction of Georgia Tech athletics and the fortunes of one of the South’s premier collegiate institutions were forever changed. Head football coach and athletic director Bobby Dodd and President Edwin Harrison were at the annual SEC coaches meetings at the Americana Motor Hotel in downtown Atlanta. [...]
Posted in Excerpt, March/April 2011, Yellow Jackets
The 2011 Vol. 87, No. 7 digital edition of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine is now available. 
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