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2009-2010 Results
As of 2/2: Boys are 13-7 and currently 3rd in Region. Led by Chaz Sheats, Zach Lillie, Payton Mapp, Anthony Cosby
Girls are 5-15. Led by Lynetta Barnes, Tara Dove, Nicole Bishop, Natasha Brognton
Middle School Boys finished the season 13-1 were Athens Area Middle School Champions. Led by Brett Branton, Levi Cummings, Daniel Sheely, Micah Carpenter and Cal Garner.
Middle School Girls finished the season 4-10 and 3rd in area tournament. Led by Lexie Wood and Madison Mealor.
2008-2009 Results
Congratulations! Ron Link GHSA Class A Coach of the Year by Atlanta Journal Constitution and Raymond Higgs Athens Banner Herald Class A first team honoree, Georgia Sports Writers 1st Team All State, and AJC 2nd Team All State.
Boys: UNDEFEATED Region 8A Champions, 3d in the state with a 29-3 record.
Region player of the year, Raymond Higgs. All Region selection, Chaz Sheats. Region Coach of the year, Ron Link.
Girls: Finished 4th in the region and qualified for State Tournament. All Region selections: Ashley Lillie and Tara Dove both 2nd team.
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 Bio: COACH RON LINK
Coach Link has been a basketball coach and teacher at the high school, Junior College, and Division 1 level for forty years. He has coached and been a guest speaker in summer camps and clinics around the south. This past summer he was the only high school boys coach selected to speak at the GACA Summer Conference in St. Simons Island. He is known for his optimism and enthusiasm, and is also affectionately called the “Quote Man” by many of his former students and players. He is the author of three books: “50 Characteristics for Completing the Puzzle of Life”, “Rebuilding the Heart: Piece by Piece” and. “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”. He also travels around the south speaking to major groups, clubs, businesses, and churches.
His ability to motivate and inspire young people and help them in the “game of life” has been the main reasons so many of his teams have ended up on top wherever he teaches and coaches. He has taken many of his teams to state and national tournaments. He was selected to coach the Atlanta Team in the famous “Boston Shootout”, and his Atlanta Team won this national tournament five times (1979, ‘83, ’86, ’87 and in ’88. No other city can match the feat of the Atlanta Team. Coach Link was inducted into the “Boston Shootout Hall of Fame” for his successes as the Atlanta coach.
In his forty years of coaching he has been selected as the “Coach of the Year” twenty-one times. He has won 74.4% of his games throughout his career. This past season Coach Link led the eagles to a 28-3 over-all record, and a 19-0 Region 8-A record. He had his 7th “North East Georgia – Player of the Year” in the past eight seasons. This season he was selected as the Atlanta Journal Class A – “Coach of the Year”.
Coach Link is a “born again” Christian as he accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior when he was twelve years old. He says that his greatest thrill is not his successes but in seeing others excel in their efforts as students and athletes, and that his greatest honor was being selected to “God’s Hall of Fame” when he was twelve.
Coach Link’s major goal in life is to tell others what Christ means to him. He uses the phrase “Our Mission is Transition” for his teams to get up and down the floor, and it is used in his summer camps to get people from “lost” to “saved”.
Coach Link has been married to Cathy Link for the past thirty-three years. They have one son, Chad, and three daughters Christi, Sherry, and Jessica. He also has five grandchildren.
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