All sports will include men’s and women’s teams.
Last year GHC hired the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics to conduct a feasibility study on athletics. It also conducted a student survey to gauge the interest of students in such a program, and held a number of student and community forums to explore the issue among these constituencies. Ultimately, a new student fee to pay for the program was approved by GHC’s Student Engagement Council, and the results of the forums and studies all pointed to enthusiastic support for a formal athletics program.
For the next few years, all GCAA activities will be run from Rome or Cartersville. The other GHC sites can’t currently accommodate the facilities required to support teams. The Floyd campus, which sits on 226 acres of land six miles outside Rome, already has a gymnasium, as well as eight tennis courts and a soccer field. Additionally, it has the space to construct a baseball field if desired.
GHC/Cartersville encompasses 50 acres of land, and while there is currently no baseball field on the campus, there is room to create one at a later date.
In the meantime, the college can explore other options to use existing playing fields in Cartersville/Bartow County.
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