MOULTRIE — Colquitt County sophomore Hannah Huante earned bronze medals in the 100-yard breaststroke and the 50-yard freestyle in the Region 1-7A swim meet held Jan. 26, in Douglas.

The finishes earned Huante honorable mention on the All-Region 1-7A swimming team.

Huante also was among 10 members of the Colquitt County swim team that competed in the 19th Coffee Winter Invitational held Jan. 14, also in Douglas.

She had fifth-place finishes in 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard breaststroke events.

Huante also was on a pair of relay teams that took fifth-place finishes.

The 200-yard freestyle relay team also included Chloe Tillman, Rylie Everson and Kathrine Springman.

Also on the 200-yard medley relay team were Tillman, Springman and Ellery McBryde.

McBryde had a sixth-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke, Tillman was eighth in the 100-yard freestyle and Springman was ninth in the 100-yard freestyle.

Also competing for the Lady Packers were Marina Perez, Kara Hall and Yaidenis Fernandez.

Andrew Perdew represented the Colquitt County boys.

Of this and that:

• Indiana University’s Carson Tyler earned Big 10 Diver of the Week honors for his performance in the Hoosiers’ win over Purdue.

The former Colquitt County and Moss Farms athlete scored a 423.80 on platform, the highest score in the country in the event this year.

Tyler scored at least 60 points on all six of his dives and at least 70 on four of them.

He also scored a 431.40 on 3-meter in a Jan. 27 meet at Louisville that set a pool record.

Tyler will compete next in the Big 10 Championships that begin on Feb. 22.

• Helping the Andrew College baseball team get off to a 4-2 start are former Packers JT Whatley and Gavin Steptoe.

Whatley has a home run and four runs batted in, while Steptoe, a left-handed pitcher, has made two appearances, working four innings with a 4.50 ERA.

• Thomas Propst, son of former Colquitt County head football coach Rush Propst, has signed a National Letter of Intent to play collegiately at the University of West Georgia.

Propst was a senior receiver at Piedmont (Ala.) High School last season and helped lead the Bulldogs to the Class 3A championship game.

He caught 46 passes for 672 yards and five touchdowns in his senior season.

He last played at Colquitt County as a member of the ninth-grade football team in 2019.

• Abby Plymel is 6-for-14 with two doubles for the ABAC women’s softball team.

Over the first five games, the former Lady Packer is 5-for-16 with two doubles.

• Janiah Ellis is averaging 13.0 points and 3.9 rebounds for the Clark Atlanta University women’s basketball team.

The former Lady Packer scored 14 in the Panthers 59-51 win at home over Albany State on Jan. 30.

• Henry Daniels, who spent the last two seasons playing baseball at ABAC, is now at the University of West Georgia and is hitting .563 with a double and three runs batted in.

The 6-foot-5, 220-pound left-hand hitting first baseman/outfielder hit .348 with nine doubles, a triple, 10 home runs and 39 runs batted in for the Stallions last year.

• Jeb Johnson has returned for his second season at ABAC and the right-handed pitcher is 1-1 with a 2.53 ERA. He has struck out 16 batters in 10.2 innings.

• Ty Megahee is back for his fifth season as an assistant baseball coach at the University of Pittsburgh, where he helps with the hitters, coaches infielders and is the team’s recruiting director.

The former Colquitt County shortstop played collegiately at Darton and Mercer and also has served as an assistant at Mercer, Monmouth, Auburn and Western Kentucky.

Pitt will open its season on Feb. 17 against Maine in Sarasota, Fla.

• With Rush Propst being named recently as associate head coach at Coosa Christian in Gadsden, Ala., there are now 10 former Colquitt County coaches serving as head football coaches in Georgia and Alabama.

The others are Sean Calhoun, Colquitt County; Robert Craft, North Forsyth; Jeff Hammond, Worth County; Shelton Felton, Valdosta; Scott Roberts, Swainsboro; Justin Rogers, Thomas County Central; Byron Slack, Cook; Reggie Stancil, Dacula; and Rico Zackery, Westlake.

• Santavious Bryant has been named the head football coach at Grayson, replacing Adam Carter who took the Lowndes job last month.

Carter replaced Zach Grage who was forced out after one season.