Gordy Gruhl 1,000 Wins Tribute
Tweet Any time a coach reaches a win total that ends with two zeroes is a significant accomplishment. However, there are not many coaches who have three zeroes in the last three digits of their career win total. Deerfield-Windsor basketball coach Gordy Gruhl become one of the few high school coaches in Georgia history [...]
Read More →DEERFIELD IS DOING IT AGAIN!
Tweet Written by Ted Anderson. Insurance agent Ted W. Anderson worked in sales for half a century, has lived in Albany since 1993. He is president of Dover Lane Neighborhood Watch. Send email to him at aj@thealbanyjournal.com. Yes, Deerfield Windsor School is doing it again with their boy’s basketball program. They weren’t supposed to [...]
Read More →Prep Game of the Week—Stratford at Deerfield-Windsor
Tweet What: Semifinals of the GISA Class AAA playoffs When: Friday, November 18, 7:30 p.m. Where: Webb Stadium, Albany 2011 records: Stratford is 10-1 overall. Deerfield-Windsor is 10-2 overall. Last week: Deerfield-Windsor defeated Mount de Sales, 24-7. Stratford defeated Bulloch, 42-7. All-time series record: Stratford leads 22-19. First meeting: Stratford 21, Deerfield-Windsor 12 [...]
Read More →Prep Football Game of the Week—Mount de Sales at Deerfield-Windsor
Tweet What: First round (quarterfinals) of the GISA Class AAA playoffs When: Friday, November 11, 7:30 p.m. Where: Webb Stadium, Albany 2011 records: Mount de Sales is 7-3, 3-3 in GISA Region 2-AAA. Deerfield-Windsor is 9-2, 8-0 in GISA Region 1-AAA. Last week: Deerfield-Windsor defeated Southland, 41-0. Mount de Sales lost to Tattnall Square, [...]
Read More →Deerfield’s Alex Berry named National Merit semifinalist
Tweet Special to the Journal Alex Berry, a senior at Deerfield-Windsor School was recently named a semifinalist for the 2012 National Achievement Scholarship Program. Semifinalists are designated within geographic regions and are the highest-scoring program entrants in the states that make up each region. Berry is one of more than 160,000 African-American high school juniors [...]
Read More →Game of the Week: Deerfield at Sherwood
Tweet By Walter L. Johnson II Editor’s Note: Welcome to the 2011 debut edition of “High School Football Game of the Week” in the Albany Journal, and online at thealbanyjournal.com. Each week during the season, one game involving a team within the Albany Journal coverage area will be featured in this column.
Read More →Deerfield headmaster speaks to Kiwanians
Tweet He’s only been here two years, but Dave Davies has found a lot to like about the Albany community. Davies, a Pennsylvania native who is headmaster at Deerfield Windsor School, arrived here from Dallas, TX, in 2009. He noted he does not miss the traffic congestion and other urban hassles of Texas’ second largest [...]
Read More →WHAT A RUN!
Tweet The Deerfield-Windsor girls soccer team made it to the GISA Class AAA Final Four before finally succumbing last week to defending state champion Stratford, which followed the victory by winning a second consecutive state title over Mount de Sales. Deerfield finished 13-5-1. The Deerfield boys lost in the Elite 8 round. PHOTO BY WALTER [...]
Read More →BACK TO WORK!
Tweet Hollis Hood, a Deerfield-Windsor School coach, directs drills during football practice Monday. The Knights are the reigning GISA Class AAA state champions.
Read More →End of the road for Deerfield
Tweet Well, it just wasn’t meant to be, I guess. I was there, with my wife, to witness the end (for this year only) of the dreams of both of the Deerfield boys and girls high school basketball teams. These two teams were great and certainly have absolutely nothing to be ashamed about by losing [...]
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