Flag Football Player of the Week: Grace Maddox, North Oconee

Grace Maddox, a senior wide receiver/free safety who helped lead North Oconee into today’s Class A-4A championship game against Southeast Bulloch, is GHSF Daily’s Flag Football Player of the Week. In four playoff victories, Maddox intercepted five passes, broke up 11 passes and scored three touchdowns and an extra point. She has 25 interceptions this season in 17 games. With two minutes remaining in a 13-6 victory over Columbus in the semifinals, Maddox caught a 25-yard pass in the back of the end zone, outjumping two defenders, for the winning touchdown. Maddox is a soccer player committed to Louisville. “Grace is an elite athlete who has grown leaps and bounds in only her second year playing flag football,” North Oconee coach Jay Lasley said. “As a defender in soccer, she uses that feel for how the game is moving and has an uncanny instinct of being where the ball is going before the quarterback throws the ball. As a wide receiver, she has great hands and the ability to create separation with her speed in her routes. On a deep ball you just throw it up and let her go track it down.”

GHSF Daily, in partnership with the Atlanta Falcons, has recognized a Flag Football Player of the Week each Monday leading up to the championship games. The Falcons will provide a “Falcons Care Package” of souvenirs and merchandise to each weekly winner at the end of the season.