Fellowship Christian Wins Cooperative Spirit Sportsmanship Award

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Roswell, GA -- With hazing in high school athletics on the rise, everyone associated with sporting agrees it is vital to instill in students basic principles of good sportsmanship to ensure every athlete in Georgia and across the nation competes in a safe and secure environment.

For that reason, Georgia’s Electric Membership Cooperatives, are especially proud to announce the winners of the 2015 Georgia High School Cooperative Spirit Sportsmanship Awards.

Roswell’s Fellowship Christian School was named the winner for Region 6 in the A (1-A) Division.

“Sportsmanship is an essential element in the mission of education-based athletics,” said Gary Phillips, Georgia High School Association Executive Director. “Good sporting behavior involves many important values that influence the behavior of productive citizens. The GHSA appreciates the efforts of Georgia’s EMCs to support and recognize schools that have excelled at good sportsmanship.”

Since 2006, EMCs in Georgia have sponsored the Cooperative Spirit Sportsmanship Award to underscore the importance of encouraging and rewarding positive sporting behavior.

According to the GHSA, students, athletes, coaches, spectators and any others associated with high school activities programs should adhere to the fundamental values of respect, fairness, honesty and responsibility in order to be considered for the Award.

“Schools such as Fellowship Christian are worthy of recognition because they routinely exhibit sportsmanship across a variety of sports and groups—ranging from students, parents and adult volunteers to coaches, spectators and sporting officials,” Lindsay Brides, vice president of Communications and Member Services for Georgia EMC, said.

The Award recognizes not only student athletes but fellow students, school staff, parents and event spectators, thereby becoming not only a school honor, but a community honor as well.

Cooperative Spirit Sportsmanship Awards are presented annually by EMC representatives during fall athletic events and school assemblies to GHSA-member high schools in 48 regions and six classifications.

Georgia EMC is a statewide trade association representing the state’s 41 EMCs, Oglethorpe Power Corp., Georgia Transmission Corp. and Georgia System Operations Corp. Collectively, Georgia’s customer-owned EMCs provide electricity and related services to 4.4 million people, nearly half of Georgia’s population, across 73 percent of the state’s land area.

The GHSA is a voluntary organization comprised of more than 400 public and private high schools that strives to promote good sportsmanship and a cooperative spirit among its member schools.

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Photo: Lindsay Bridges, the vice president of communication for Georgia EMC; Athletic Director Bryan Lindner and Head of School Kathy Teston. Credit: Fellowship Christian School