Coastal Pines Technical College

   By Kevin Price

Richmond Hill has a history of success in cross

country, and this past weekend Myles Head added

to that success with his performance at the Class

AAAAAA state meet.

Head, a junior runner for the Wildcats, finished

fourth overall in the boys 5K event in Carrollton.

With that outstanding performance, Head has

been chosen for the Coastal Pines Technical

College Boys Student-Athlete of the Week honor

by 912 Sports in our Southeast Georgia coverage

area.

Head crossed the finish line in the 3.1-mile race in

16 minutes, 7.95 seconds. He was just a little more

than a full second behind the third-place runner.

The winner in the Class AAAAAA championship

was Jameson Pifer from Collins Hill High School. He

finished in 15:45.56 to claim the state individual

title.

Head helped the Wildcats place sixth overall in the

final team standings. They had one other runner

record a top-10 finish.

Richmond Hill’s last top-10 finish at state was in

2023 when the Wildcats finished 10 th .

Head was coming off a third-place finish in the

sectional qualifier when he finished in 15:50.62.

Earlier this season, he finished first at the

Richmond Hill Invitational with a time of 16:02.63.

Coastal Pines Technical College Male 

Student Athlete of the Week

Week 1 - Fred Causey (Clinch County) 

Week 2 - Terron Birden (Ware County)

Week 3 - Santiago Bizzell (Bacon County) 

Week 4 - Traviion Miller (Clinch County)

Week 5 - Elijah Brown (Liberty County)

Week 6 - Jaeveon Williams (Pierce County) 

Week 7 - Grant Moore (Brunswick High)

Week 8 - Jaylon Deal (Richmond Hill)

Week 9 - Keon Childers(Statesboro)  

Week 10 - RJ Simms (Jeff Davis) 

Week 11 - Jaiden Knight (Appling County)

Week 12 - Josiah Gibbons (Brunswick High)

Week 13 - Myles Head (Richmond Hill)

  By Kevin Price

Gabriella Francis put together a big junior season for

the Richmond Hill girls cross country team that featured a big finish.

Francis placed eighth this past weekend at the Class

AAAAAA state meet held in Carrollton while helping the

Lady Wildcats to a 10 th -place finish in the team

standings.

The outstanding individual showing by Francis earned

the Richmond Hill standout the Coastal Pines Technical

College Girls Student-Athlete of the Week in our

Southeast Georgia coverage area by 912 Sports.

Francis was one of two Lady Wildcats who finished

among the top-10 in Georgia’s largest classification.

She finished the 5K race in 19 minutes, 31.40 seconds.

Fellow Richmond Hill runner Chloe Miller was ninth as

she finished in 19:54.04. Miller is a sophomore.

The Lady Wildcats have placed in the top-10 each of the last five years at state. For Francis, the state race was her third straight

competition in which she finished inside the top-10 in

the individual standings. She was fifth at the sectional

meet and came in second at Richmond Hill’s home meet

in mid-October.

Francis also had a runner-up finish at an early-season

meet for the Lady Wildcats.

Coastal Pines Technical College Female 

Student-Athlete of the Week

Week 1 - Maggie Brown, softball (Coffee)

Week 2 - Cheyenne Crosby, cross country (Brunswick)

Week 3 - Chloe Miller, cross country (Richmond Hill)

Week 4 - Danni Lynn, softball (South Effingham)

Week 5 -Olivia Bennett, softball (Pierce County) 

Week 6 - Jada Boatright, softball (Glynn Academy)

Week 7 - Cassidy King, cross country (Glynn Academy)  

Week 8 - Maddalyne Jones, softball (Appling County)

Week 9 - Talia Johnson, volleyball (Richmond Hill) 

Week 10 - Lauren Dunn, cross country (Frederica Academy) 

Week 11 - Victoria Wallace, flag football (Richmond Hill) 

Week 12 - Cheniyah Jackson, softball (South Effingham)

Week 13 - Gabriella Francis, cross country (Richmond Hill)