On the Field

  • A Perfect Match

    For three-plus decades, Tech’s tennis coaches have been inseparable—on the court and off Over the past 12 years, Kenny Thorne, IE 89, and Bryan Shelton, IE 90, have coached Tech’s men’s and women’s tennis teams, respectively. They have built a tennis program into one of the best in the nation. The teams have claimed multiple more

  • Radakovich Weighs in on ACC Expansion

    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 more

  • At 98 and 84, Sisters are Yellow Jackets Stalwarts

    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 more

  • Football Practice Facility Set to Open

    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 more

  • Mucho Macho Man

    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 more