By Kevin Price
Jarvis Wright has been a big-time scorer in each of his first three years of high school basketball.
And Wright scored a lot of points in summer games with Ware County last month as well.
The rising senior for the Gators averaged 26 points a game while playing 30 games in June as Ware traveled to several camps to get in some floor work as a team during their summer training season.
Wright’s impressive play has led 912 Sports to select the standout player as our Coastal Pines Technical College Boys Student-Athlete of the Month.
“He’s one of the top 2025 college basketball prospects in Georgia,” said Ware head coach Lenny Williams.
A 6-foot shooting guard, Wright played his first two years of high school basketball at Charlton County. As a freshman, he averaged just over 19 points a game and made 123 shots from 3-point land as he first displayed his prowess from long-range.
Wright averaged 19.9 points per game as a sophomore and ended up going over the 1,000-point mark during the season which ended with the Indians playing for a state championship.
He made 170 three-pointers in that 2022-23 season including a miracle before the buzzer in the state semifinal to send Charlton to the championship game.
Last season, he played for Ware and led the Gators to the Class AAAAA state tournament.
Wright has college scholarship offers from North Florida, Morehead State, College of Coastal Georgia and Fort Valley State among others.
Schools still recruiting him include Iona, Wofford, Presbyterian and Lipscomb University among others.
Wright, of course, will be one of the area’s premier players going into the 2024-25 season here in Southeast Georgia.
Coastal Pines Technical College
Boys Student-Athletes of Month in 2024
January - Arthur Reed, Coffee, wrestling
February - Anthony Lowe, , Brunswick , wrestling
March - Evan Joiner, Ware County, baseball
April, Ryan Thomas, Brunswick, baseball
May - Camden Hickox, Appling Co., track and field
June - Trace Carter, Ware County, golf
July - Jarvis Wright, Ware County, basketball
By Kevin Price
Georgia Blount had a strong sophomore season for the Camden County girls golf team.
And she has had a pretty good summer, too.
The Lady Wildcats standout finished near the top of the leaderboard in two premier Georgia State Golf Association tournaments in June which led to her being chosen by 912 Sports for the Coastal Pines Girls Technical College Student-Athlete of the Month honor.
Blount finished fourth at the GSGA Girls’ Championship hosted by Sea Island in late June and then followed that showing with a tie for ninth at the Georgia Women’s Amateur Championship played at Country Club of Columbus before the end of the month.
Her strong play has come on the heels of a big finish to the the spring with the Camden girls as Blount placed second a second straight year in the Class AAAAAAA state tournament to earn all-state honors.
She also was selected as the 912 Sports Large-School Player of the Year for girls golf this past season.
“Georgia started working with a mental coach toward the end of spring and that has really helped,” said Brent Blount, head coach at Camden. He is also Georgia’s father. “She wanted everything to be perfect, and golf like life isn’t perfect.
“So Georgia is doing a much better job of letting things go and just making the best score she can on that day. We call it ‘controlling what you can control.’ I would say her new mental approach has helped her the most this summer.”
Blount, a rising junior at Camden, finished at 2-over-par at the state girls tournament played on Sea Island Golf Club’s Retreat Course last month. Her top-five performance there featured a 5-under 67 in the final round as she closed strong and finished six shots back of the winner.
Blount earned a spot on the state roster for the upcoming Georgia-Junior Challenge Match on July 27-28 with her finish at the Georgia girls tourney.
At the Women’s Am, Blount also posted a 2-over score over three rounds while competing in a field that included top players from around the state including many collegiate players. She shot 1-under 71 in the opening round in Columbus before shooting 74 in round two and 73 in the third round to finish tied for ninth. She was six shots back of champion Sara Im who will be a sophomore on Vanderbilt’s women’s team this fall.
Also this summer, Blount recorded a top-10 finish at an American Junior Golf Association tournament in Orlando. She also reached a playoff in a qualifier played at Druid Hills Golf Club in suburban Atlanta for the U.S. Girls Junior Championship.
As an all-state player this past season, Blount was invited to play in the Georgia High School Association’s all-star match which pitted top boys and girls players from South Georgia against their counterparts from North Georgia. Blount helped the South team to a victory in that competition.
Following a busy June, Blount has taken a break from golf thus far in July, but she is set to return to action next week at the AJGA Keith Mitchell Junior Championship on Sea Island’s Plantation Course.
She will be a 912 standout to watch over the next couple of years as well.
Coastal Pines Technical College
Girls Student-Athletes of the Month in 2024
January - Trenity Hamilton, Charlton Co., basketball
February - Marigona Lau, Glynn Academy, wrestling
March - Ellie Luppino, Glynn Academy, tennis
April - Katlyn Sullivan, Statesboro, riflery
May - Kiara Green, Charlton Co., track and field
June - Mackenzie Connell, Pierce Co., golf
July - Georgia Blount, Camden Co., golf
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