Metter High School students and staff gave a warm send off to the Lady Tigers softball team as they head to the Elite 8 State Championship in Columbus! Their first game will be Wednesday, October 25 at 11 am against Prince Avenue. Let's go Lady Tigers!!! 🥎🐅🏆
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MHS Tigers warm a big win over Claxton High School tonight with a score of 42-0!
The MHS Lady Tigers are headed to Columbus for the Elite 8 on the road to a State Championship! The first game will be Wednesday, October 25 at 11 am against Prince Avenue. Let's go Lady Tigers!!! 🥎🐅🏆
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Columbus bound!!! The Lady Tigers have defeated Swainsboro High for the Super Regionals Championship!! Let’s go!! 🧡🖤🏆🔥🐅
Update: our Tigers fell to Toombs 35-6 but what a great season! Thank you to all the hard work of the players, coaches, cheerleaders, parents and fans.
MHS Lady Tigers Softball defeats Swainsboro 7-1! Tigers will play Swainsboro again (the "If" game because Swainsboro was undefeated) today (Oct 19) at 6 pm. You can follow them on GameChanger by searching Metter Varsity Lady Tigers or check back here or on Metter High School's facebook page for results! Let's go Lady Tigers!!
Dr. Bubba Longgrear, Candler County School District Superintendent, has been recognized as one of four 2024 Superintendent of the Year Finalists for the state of Georgia by the Georgia School Superintendents Association (GSSA)!
"It is an honor to be recognized as a finalist," says Dr. Longgrear. "This is truly a recognition for the good work of our school system and community."
Nominations were received from August 2, 2023, to September 1, 2023. Nominations were made by boards of education, colleagues, community members, and businesses, from all over our state.
There were 24 candidates nominated and four were selected as state finalists to represent the superintendent’s profession in Georgia. These four finalists will now move to the next phase of completing an application to enter the national competition, where one of the four will be selected to represent the state of Georgia against the other 49 states and Canada.
"This is a tremendous honor to be amongst the very best professionals who answer the call to serve in the K-12 Public School Superintendency...a most challenging and honorable career," says Dr. John Zauner, Executive Director of GSSA.
Our MHS Lady Tigers Softball Team lost 2-3 against Swainsboro Tigers at the Super Regionals being held at Crawford County High School. Tigers will now play Pelham High School. Follow the Lady Tigers on Gamechanger or check back here for updates.
It's almost Basketball season!!
Boys Basketball tryouts will be held Tuesday, October 24th through Thursday, October 26 from 3:20 pm until 5:45 pm in the MHS gym. Students must have a physical on file in order to tryout and a permission form signed by parents.
Football players can tryout once their season has been completed.
The American Rescue Plan Act Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief required the Candler County School District to create a plan to ensure additional steps are taken to safely reopen schools for in-person instruction, keep schools open, and take appropriate measures to helps schools invest in mitigation strategies consistent with the CDC. In addition, school districts must address interrupted instruction by committing a minimum of 20% of these funds to address learning loss. Please review the ARP and Return to In-Person Instruction plans and provide any feedback.
Link to the plan: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QfccHPn8GO_3rradJinOj8i2fl4gMYqX/edit#slide=id.p1
Link to feedback form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeTGt1SSLuMmmB7WFABWoxpbLztmvv9FALWkEoVyt1WAEBTZw/viewform
Our Lady Tigers Softball Team will enter the Super Regionals on Wednesday, October 18 during Game 2 against Swainsboro Tigers at 2 pm at Crawford County High School. When we win Game 2, we will play the winner of Game 1 at 6 pm.
GHSA has set ticket prices at $12 for a day pass or $20 for tournament pass. There will be no Cash Sales, GoFan Only. https://gofan.co/event/1169750?schoolId=GA23136
The address for the school is 400 East Agency Street, Roberta, GA. There will be designated fan parking at the front of the school beside the football stadium. To access the softball complex, fans enter through the visitor’s entrance of the football stadium. Stay to the far right walkway, and follow the walkway to the softball field.
GO METTER LADY TIGERS!!!
So proud of the Metter Tiger Pride Marching Band! All Superior Ratings and swept Class AA in every Caption at the 2023 Effingham Co. Coastal Empire Classic!
MHS Cheerleaders won 2nd place at the Sweet Onion Cheer Competition today! Congratulations!! 🥇
Our JROTC Raiders are at the Area 9 meet today in Bryan Co. Two of our raiders were named Best Raiders —congratulations to Abbigail Hall and Marshall Myers! And our Male Mixed team won first place in the Region!!! Way to go Raiders!!
Candler County Schools personnel, along with other leaders on the community, traveled to the State of the Ports today as Georgia Ports Authority leaders presented an update on the port’s $1.9 billion master plan and infrastructure investments.
Georgia Ports provides one of the nation’s best-connected port operations, with 35 weekly ocean carrier services, additional terminal capacity and land available in Georgia to attract new business.
Georgia’s ports and inland terminals support more than 561,000 jobs throughout the state annually, and contribute $33 billion in income, $140 billion in revenue and $3.8 billion in state and local taxes to Georgia’s economy.
JV Football and Softball games scheduled for today, Oct 12, has been CANCELLED.
Music in the Park scheduled for tonight has been postponed to a later date. Follow this page to find out when!
—Candler County SWIRL Council
La música en el parque prevista para esta noche se ha pospuesto para una fecha posterior. ¡Sigue esta página para saber cuándo!
—Consejo SWIRL del condado de Candler
MHS Tiger Football will take on Savannah High School on Friday, October 13 in Savannah at 6 pm. You can listen to the game on WHCG Better 105.9 FM in your car or online at https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fradio.securenetsystems.net%2Fcirruscontent%2FWHCG%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR30yuosFxSd66AZIbn9Ly28_DU2ibCe7svPSC__lzF-rKbQB50n7Q1NGP0&h=AT1aRJsWUuob1T2ydT2KLz6ksUV1pxv3wcfVI3CDVBPr0FNGek74CND8mEZOp5TBxNgbAPXSTYc4-Nm1ECEFiq-wTBgiCxsfN9ZP4qamJhewXUIsDMp6ov4tIx2El-5YAWVvjEA&__tn__=%2CmH-R&c[0]=AT1JMvowZ1YWA4dXUJeVjrTu6vN9e6e6q5NeQibpyN-PoL2HAKeKfejWfjCHbk9d-zsXKGCVfvbUCB8t7Zg9h-5sXJ7Yx0R4eUjIHzjaE_lENSO8lBJi6Xjdk3F87eFghaa4No7T6ZdODlJIXYQlfNN-Ax3iEg
Thanks to all who drove during Metter Ford's Drive One 4UR School! We had over 330 test drives which exceeds the goal. Some of the drivers have still not completed the post survey that was texted or emailed to you after you completed the drive. If you haven't completed, please do so asap to get credit and funding for your drive.
A Special THANK YOU to The Pond House and to JoMax BBQ for donating tonight's Booster Meal! We appreciate Ricky and the teams at the restaurants! Go check them out this weekend for some good food! YUM!!
