Entering the doors into the Wetumpka High School competition gym, the tables were set with an athlete and their family accompanied to reign in the plethora of Indians signing their Letters of Intent last Wednesday.
In total, 15 student-athletes signed in front of a gym full of their classmates with coaches spanning across sports in accompaniment. The football team was well represented on the day with Tavon Gray to LaGrange College, Ethan Bailey to Lousiana Monroe, Clenanagelo Peake to Faulkner, Justin Godwin to Miles College with Jimmy King and Morion Dorsey both signing to Mississippi Community Christian College.
For baseball, Tyler Johnson signed with Reid State while Mason Fuller signed with Lurleen B. Wallace Community College. Wetumpka basketball standout Nolan Fitch signed to Huntingdon College. Indians’ soccer goalie Ashton Sipes signed to Washington and Jefferson College. Track and field standout Jada Walker signed with Stillman College. Jackson Greenwood signed with Montevallo for swimming. Ashton Tomlin signed with Coastal Alabama Community College for tennis. Then to round out the signees both Maggie Harrison and Lily Chandler signed scholarships to be part of the Huntingdon College band.
All of the student-athletes were introduced by the coaches who helped mold them through their high school careers, teaching them how to be successful both on and off the field.
“It's just a reminder that when you work hard, and you consistently work hard in the classroom and through your sport and extracurricular, that you have an opportunity, that the world is yours,” Wetumpka athletic director and head football coach Bear Woods said.
Not only was it a day to shine a light on the amazing student-athletes littered through the hallway at Wetumpka as they took their next steps as college athletes. But it is even a further testament to the level of success of Wetumpka sports as a whole to send so many to college on scholarships.
“We're thankful for these families and friends who come to be the support system for our student-athletes here at Wetumpka High School,” Woods said in the opening prayer. “We're thankful for the leadership that's in the classroom, for our teachers, our administration and we're thankful to all we have here together to celebrate these young ladies and young men.”
