Wesleyan’s swimming and diving teams swept the Class AAA-A state championships Saturday night at Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center.
The Wolves claimed the girls state title with 300 points, finishing ahead of runner-up St. Vincent’s Academy’s 282. Whitefield Academy was a distant third at 215. Hebron Christian’s girls, with five swimmers, tied for 11th with 70 points.
Wesleyan’s boys scored 252 points to top second-place Whitefield Academy and North Cobb Christian. Providence Christian’s boys took fourth at 193. Hattie Wasmuth starred for the Wesleyan girls with two individual state championships — the 200-yard individual medley in 2 minutes, 6.03 seconds and the 500 freestyle in 5:10.93. She also joined Vivian Hosier, Ansley Chapman and Caroline Stewart on a state title-winning 400 free relay. Wesleyan’s boys team won both the 200 free relay and the 400 free relay.
Many Gwinnett Chamber board presidents get it easy during their year leading the Board of Directors.
They may serve during a year when the chamber is taking on a major initiative or a leadership change, but, in the grand scheme of things, it’s nothing overly daunting.
Tammy Shumate, on the other hand, got to be board president in 2020, a.k.a the year a global pandemic hit and shut everything down. While that might sound like a tough time to be the board’s president, Shumate said it was a good experience in retrospect. She said she learned a lot in a short time, although the experience was similar to “drinking from a firehouse” as Tammy put it. Tammy Shumate — who is the director of corporate development at her husband, Greg’s, company, Capital City Home Loans LLC — was feted at the Gwinnett Chamber’s 75th Annual Dinner at the Gas South District on Friday night as she was named the chamber’s Citizen of the Year. She strode up to the stage to accept her award while Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” played over the sound system. She picked the song out herself. Shumate has been involved with the Gwinnett Chamber for more than a decade. She estimated she has been on its Board of Directors for about at least 15 years.
Wherever you needed him, the late Scott Cramer was there.
Cramer spent the past 18 years as a basketball official with the Multi-County Basketball Officials Association based out of Gwinnett and Forsyth Counties and the longtime Lawrenceville resident was honored in between basketball games at Archer High School Friday night. He passed away unexpectedly last August at the age of 55, leaving a void in the community.
The decorated official had the honor of refereeing two state championship games in 2019 and 2021, but what he prided himself the most on was helping others. He spent countless hours training officials and served as the association's vice president of training up until his passing. Archer was the perfect place to honor Cramer. While he never got to referee a game there, it was at the school where his two daughters graduated. He also spent many Friday nights watching the Tigers football team from the stands. Cramer started his passion for officiating in college. He attended Western Illinois University and started officiating parks and recreation games as a freshman. A year later, he was working local high school games in the area and honing in on his craft.
After moving to Georgia, Cramer became a member of the MCBOA and remained with the organization. From parks and recreation games to high school games, Cramer went anywhere he was asked. Many of Cramer’s friends and fellow officials spoke Friday night, remember a good friend and someone who was always enthusiastic about his job, even training the young officials.
Gwinnett firefighters battled a fire at a large home located at the River Club in Suwanee Sunday morning for about two hours before extinguishing it.
Fire officials said firefighters responded at 3:35 a.m. to a neighbor’s report of a house fire in the River Club gated community. The 911 caller advised entire front of the home was on fire, fire officials said. On arrival, crews found a large 9,000 square-foot, two-story residence on a basement that was fully involved throughout the main portion of the home. Within two hours, firefighters had knocked down the main body of fire, Wilson said. Crews remained on scene for another five hours dousing hotspots and applying foam to smoldering areas. The home was completely gutted and is total loss. No injuries were reported.
A fire investigator responded to the scene for origin and cause determination. The cause of the fire is currently undetermined and under investigation.
According to the private security for the River Club subdivision, the homeowners were out of town.
Gwinnett County officials will give residents several chances in February and early March to learn about the new Ride Gwinnett transit routes and offer feedback on the service.
Ride Gwinnett, which was previously known as Gwinnett County Transit until it was formally renamed in January, will kick off a series of meetings with a virtual session from 9:30 until 11 a.m. on Wednesday.
The meetings come as the transit service prepares to roll out new local service routes that will serve the Snellville, Stone Mountain, Buford and Suwanee areas, adding a new connection to destinations such as the Mall of Georgia. It is also expanding its existing coverage in the Lawrenceville, Lilburn and Duluth areas.
Ride Gwinnett is preparing to roll out microtransit service in Snellville and Lawrenceville as well. Microtransit is a service where residents who live in a microtransit zone can use a mobile phone app to request a Ride Gwinnett shuttle pick them up and take them where they want to go within the designated zones.
Although some meetings will be virtual gatherings, there will be in-person events as well. In all, eight meetings have been scheduled to take place in a span of just over one month. For a complete list of meetings and locations, head over to Gwinnett Daily Post dot com.
Timely hitting was the key as the Number 7-ranked Georgia Gwinnett College baseball team won its opening weekend series with a 5-3 victory against Indiana Wesleyan University on Saturday afternoon at the Grizzly Baseball Complex.
Senior outfielder Blaze O’Saben hit a two-run single in the fourth inning to give the hosts a 3-1 lead. He collected two hits in the contest and registered a base hit in all three games in the series.
Sophomore Braxton Meguiar extended GGC’s lead to 5-1 with an RBI single that scored junior Jon Ponder in the sixth inning. Earlier, Meguiar put the team on the scoreboard with a two-out single in the third inning.
Sophomore starting pitcher Cameron Repetti registered six strikeouts across five strong innings to pick up the victory in his first Grizzly appearance. Junior Kyle Petri followed by striking out five opposing batters across two innings before seniors Jonathan Haab and Garrett Houston each recorded two strikeouts in tossing scoreless eighth and ninth innings. Pitchers for GGC combined for 46 strikeouts during the season-opening series, earning at least 15 strikeouts in each game. The Grizzlies are back in action Friday morning, hosting the #24th ranked Taylor Trojans.
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