Braden Jarvis wins SAA weekly track award

The Southern Athletic Association (SAA) recently announced Braden Jarvis of Berry College was one of two athletes named the conference’s Men’s Track and Field Athletes of the Week.

The former multi-sport Gordon Lee High School standout continued his streak of three straight meets with a new personal records in the pole vault. He won the Birmingham Southern College (BSC) Birdwell Classic with a new height of 4.40 meters (14-feet, 4-inches), which ranks as the top mark in the SAA this season.

Additionally, that height ranks fourth in the South/ Southeast Region and 20th, nationally.

Oglethorpe University’s Mike Rosenbluth was the SAA Men’s Track Runner of the Week after finishing second at the BSC Hilltop Classic in the 5000 meters with a 15:38.2, the current second all-time mark in school history.

FCA Spring Banquet

The Lookout Mountain Chapter of Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) will welcome former University of Georgia and University of Miami head football coach Mark Richt and wife, Katharyn, as the keynote speakers at their annual spring banquet on Friday, April 30.

To meet COVID-19 guidelines, this year’s fundraiser will be a tailgate-type event at the open-air First Horizon Pavilion in Chattanooga. All proceeds will assist the FCA in the Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade and Walker County schools and communities.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the 1961 charter of FCA in the tri-state area.

Table sponsorships, program ads, general admission seats are available to support and attend the celebration. Tables include eight seats and passes to meet the Richts. The meal will be catered by famed Atlanta-based restaurant, The Varsity.

For details go to lookoutmountainfca.org, or call (706) 764-1954.

Gordon Lee Basketball Camp

The Gordon Lee Future Trojans Basketball Camp will be held June 21-24 from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. each day at the Gordon Lee Middle School and High School gyms.

The cost is $100 per camper and open to first grade through rising sixth grade boys.

To register, contact Coach Matt Smith at matt.smith@ glschools.org.

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Brant Sanderlin, Berry College Former Gordon Lee Trojan Braden Jarvis clears the bar during a meet at Berry College’s Valhalla Stadium on March 6. Jarvis was recently named as one of the SAA’s Men’s Track Athletes of the Week.