Improvement Tracker: 9 winning coaches to be honored at GACA Falcons Luncheon
GHSF Daily’s Improvement Tracker standings are final, and the nine winners will be presented with awards in February at the GACA Falcons Luncheon in Macon. The Improvement Tracker, sponsored by Siemens, has been a weekly GHSF Daily feature since August. It ranked the top five teams and their head coaches in each classification based on their improvement in the computer Maxwell Ratings, but with some exclusions. Only teams with winning records were listed. In the end, each team and coach also had to make the playoffs, finish top four in its region and improve playoff seeding or state playoff finish from the previous year to qualify. The objective was to recognize not only the challenge of improving a team but also making it relevant on the state level. Congratulations to the nine winners – Adam Carter of Lowndes, Steve Hibbitts of Lakeside (Evans), Tyler Jones of Cambridge, Tommy Jones of Cherokee Bluff, Will Rogers of Sumter County, Buddy Martin of Toombs County, Lee Chomskis of Lincoln County, Tommy Lewis of Landmark Christian and Erik Soliday of Tiftarea Academy.
Class 6A
+12.20 - Lowndes (Adam Carter)
+10.64 - Grayson (Santavious Bryant)
+9.54 - Collins Hill (Drew Swick)
+8.07 - Hillgrove (Justin DeShon)
+4.91 - Buford (Bryant Appling)
Class 5A
+17.68 - Lakeside-Evans (Steve Hibbitts)
+14.89 - Sprayberry (Brett Vavra)
+13.69 - Woodstock (Dan Devine)
+8.87 - Lee County (Dean Fabrizio)
+6.83 - Sequoyah (James Teter)
Class 4A
+13.47 - Cambridge (Tyler Jones)
+13.41 - North Oconee (Tyler Aurandt)
+12.21 - Eastside (Jay Cawthon)
+9.53 - Blessed Trinity (Ed Dudley)
+4.08 - Hampton (Chad Ashley)
Class 3A
+12.80 - Cherokee Bluff (Tommy Jones)
+8.35 - Westside-Augusta (Lee Hutto)
+7.38 - Westover (Corey Joyner)
+5.69 - Douglass (Stanley Pritchett)
+4.57 - Peach County (Marquis Westbrook)
Class 2A
+8.46 - Sumter County (Will Rogers)
+7.97 - Carver-Columbus (Pierre Coffey)
+7.11 - Ringgold (Austin Crisp)
+5.27 - Hapeville Charter (Winston Gordon)
+4.94 - Carver-Atlanta (Darren Myles)
Class A Division I
+11.36 - Toombs County (Buddy Martin)
+7.52 - Heard County (Shane Lasseter)
+6.00 - Dublin (Roger Holmes)
+5.72 - Fannin County (Chad Cheatham)
+2.54 - Worth County (Jeff Hammond)
Class A Division II
+6.25 - Lincoln County (Lee Chomskis)
+6.07 - Warren County (Steven Simpson)
+5.40 - Mitchell County (Dondrial Pinkins)
+3.31 - Miller County (Tom Causey)
+2.82 - Metter (Lee Shaw)
Class 3A-A private
+13.96 - Landmark Christian (Tommy Lewis)
+13.11 - Hebron Christian (Jonathan Gess)
+2.76 - North Cobb Christian (Matt Jones)
+2.30 - Mount Paran Christian (Connie Arnold)
+1.91 - Christian Heritage (Frank Barden)
GIAA
+13.01 - Tiftarea Academy (Erik Soliday)
+12.20 - Deerfield-Windsor (Jake McCrae)
+8.68 - Lakeview Academy (Lee Coleman)
+8.35 - Rock Springs Christian (Clint Ashmore)
+7.11 - Westfield (Chad Campbell)
