From Staff Reports
AMERICUS — AMERICUS—Southland high graduate Mollie McGowan will join Coach Brennen Sewell’s Lady Hurricanes in the fall of 2009 to play in the NCAA Peach belt conference. While at Southland Academy Mollie excelled in sports lettering in five different sports, achieving all region in four different sports and All State in one, She was also selected region 3AAA Player of the year in basketball her senior year. Mollie is thankful to Coach Jimmy Thaxton who taught, supported and encouraged her efforts in tennis after he recruited her to be a part of the tennis team at Southland. Thaxton stated that it was his privilege to have had a chance to have such a superior athlete who has the heart of a lion and the intelligence to match. He said that this is the only way she could have developed in two high school seasons to the level of earning a tennis scholarship. He expects rapid progress in her tennis at GSW. Mollie a scholar athlete at Southland says she is excited and appreciates the opportunity Coach Sewell has given her to continue playing a sport that she loves during her college career and one she can play for the rest of her life. She is committed to giving it 100% when she walks on the court.
