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After studying the youth camp landscape for the past decade, and now serving as the Head Coach of Nike Elite 11, former Super Bowl-winning quarterback and current ESPN analyst Trent Dilfer has decided to change the way future quarterbacks are developed by establishing the first QBEpic. At the world-­class LakePoint Sporting Community facilities in Emerson, Georgia, quarterbacks will receive best-in-class training on and off the field from the finest group of quarterback coaches ever assembled. Quarterback Engineer George Whitfield Jr. will lead the all-star staff of quarterback coaches. On the field, QBs will go through elite level drills that NFL quarterbacks such as Andrew Luck, Ben Roethlisberger, Cam Newton, Colin Kaepernick and others have used to maximize their talent and ability. Off the field, QBs will dive into cognitive training provided by Axon Sports, the premier technology relied upon by NFL and college teams to train their players in the mental aspects of playing the position. Video training and instruction provided by eCoachSports will enable QBs to refine their fundamentals throughout the weekend and, more importantly, allow them to maintain their quarterback development training conversation long after the QBEpic experience has finished. The weekend is intentionally designed to break the current youth sports camp mold. This newly formulated, innovative blueprint will change the face of non-­contact football for decades to come. It’s not a camp. It’s a transformative experience that will allow each quarterback to reach his maximum potential. Spots are limited. Athletes can sign up for either the two- or three-day version of the event at www.QBEpic.com. Friday registration opens at 6 p.m. (3 day) Saturday registation opens at 8 a.m. (2 day) The event wraps up Sunday at 3 p.m.

Rally Volleyball at LakePoint Sporting Community in Emerson begins a second, 8-week session for 2015 of Co-Ed 4's league action beginning June 18. Each team must have one woman on the sand to play. Each week consists of league doubleheaders where each team plays two matches. Each match is a best-of-three games (sets) to 21 utilizing rally scoring. There is a maximum of six players per roster with league play every Thursday night at the Rally Volleyball sand venue at LakePoint. Play begins at 7:00pm with doubleheaders held June 18, June 25, July 9, July 16, July 23, July 30, August 6, and August 13. Fees are $65 per player for the first 4 players; $35 each for players 5 and 6. For questions or more information, email: info@rallyvb.com. To register, use this link: Rally Volleyball Registration

Reinhardt University junior and former Woodland High School softball player, Randi Wimpy, has repeated as an NAIA softball first team all-American. She is the first Reinhardt player to ever repeat as an all-American and she was also named Appalachian Athletic Conference Player of the Year for the second consecutive year. The 5-8 catcher also earned JUCO all-American honors her freshman season while playing at Walters State in Morristown, TN, making her a three-time softball all-American. Read more at reinhardteagles.com http://www.reinhardteagles.com/article/2925.php 2015 NAIA Softball All-Americans http://www.naia.org/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27900&ATCLID=210116093 Jason Greenberg's story,"Wimpy named all-American for 3rd straight year," in The Daily Tribune News

For the second week in a row, a Scott Hamilton Golf Academy PGA star won in Texas. Steven Bowditch won his second PGA Tour event at the AT&T Byron Nelson. Last week, it was Chris Kirk winning at The Colonial. Scott Hamilton is the Director of Golf at Cartersville Country Club. Hamilton also coaches Kyle Thompson who won in a playoff today on the Web.comTour's Rex Hospital Open in Raleigh, NC. Bowditch story on PGATour.com ---> http://www.pgatour.com Thompson story -----> http://rexhospitalopen.com Learn more about the Scott Hamilton Golf Academy

Final Score Atlanta basebal poll for each classification: Class AAAAAA 1. Parkview 2. Walton 3. Kennesaw Mountain 4. Pope 5. Collins Hill 6. North Gwinnett 7. Milton 8. Brookwood 9. Lambert 10. Mountain View Class AAAAA 1. Greenbrier 2. Gainesville 3. Allatoona 4. Jones County 5. Loganville 6. South Effingham 7. Union Grove 8. East Paulding 9. Starr’s Mill 10. Ola Class AAAA 1. Buford 2. Whitewater 3. Veterans 4. St. Pius 5. Cartersville 6. Locust Grove 7. Wayne County 8. North Hall 9. Columbia 10. Troup County Class AAA 1. Blessed Trinity 2. Jefferson 3. Westside-Augusta 4. Westminster 5. Jackson 6. Pierce County 7. Hart County 8. Callaway 9. Oconee County 10. Ringgold Class AA 1. Wesleyan 2. Darlington 3. Fitzgerald 4. Rabun County 5. Greater Atlanta Christian 6. Lovett 7. Heard County 8. Gordon Lee 9. Benedictine 10. Bacon County Class A 1. King’s Ridge 2. Hebron Christian 3. Eagle’s Landing Christian 4. Schley County 5. Tattnall Square 6. Treutlen 7. Whitefield Academy 8. Emanuel County Institute 9. Brookstone 10. Atkinson County For more, see: http://www.scoreatl.com/stories/2015-final-baseball-rankings/

The third annual FCA Golf Classic will be in full swing Monday (June 1) at the Cartersville Country Club at 1310 Joe Frank Harris Parkway to raise money for the Bartow/Polk Fellowship of Christian Athletes to send student athletes and coaches in Bartow County to FCA camps. Registration and lunch will begin at 11 a.m., followed by a shotgun start at noon. Please see Donna Harris' story "FCA sponsors golf tournament to raise money for athletes camp fees" in The Daily Tribune News

Perfect Game Youth Baseball takes center stage May 29-31 at the LakePoint Sports Complex in Emerson, the East Cobb Complex in Marietta, and Joe Cowan Park in Euharlee. 64 teams are competing for the inaugural 11U and 12U PG Southeastern Championships that conclude with title games Sunday night at Perfect Game Park South at LakePoint. For more info, schedules, and standings: 11U PG Southeastern Championship For more info, schedules, and standings: 12U PG Southeastern Championship

Former Cartersville High School softball standout Kailah Rain recently received all-conference, and all-region distinction following her freshman season at Embry-Riddle University in Daytona Beach, Florida. As an outfielder starting in all 46 games, Rain hit .328 and led the team in hits. The Eagles were 25-21 in 2015, 8-8 competing in the NAIA's Sun Conference. Please see Michael Pierce's story regarding All-Conference selection at http://erauathletics.com/news/2015/4/29/SB_0429155644.aspx?path=softball Please see Michael Pierce's story regarding the NFCA selection at erauathletics.com

Former Woodland High School softball star, Ainsley Faulk, and her Auburn University at Montgomery softball teammates successfully defended their NAIA Softball World Series title Thursday night (May 28). The 35th annual NAIA national championship tournament was conducted at the Jensen Softball Complex in Sioux City, Iowa. Faulk, a 5-foot senior outfielder, was utilized in the title game as a pinch runner for catcher Lauren Shaw in the top of the fourth inning. AUM swept through the winners bracket to make the finals, but lost to Lindsey Wilson (KY) Thursday (May 28) forcing an 'if necessary' game for the national title. The Warhawks (46-9) blanked Lindsey Wilson in the nightcap, 10-0 in six innings, to take the NAIA crown for a second consecutive year. Faulk is the daughter of Havon and Kim Faulk of Taylorsville. Link to www.aumathletics.com (Championship story) Link to www.aumathletics.com (Faulk bio link) Link to NAIA Softball World Series

Cartersville High School had eleven different sports teams to qualify for the state playoffs in Class AAAA during the 2014-15 school year including a state title in competitive cheerleading and final four appearances in both football and baseball. Those performances placed Cartersville 11th overall in the 2014-15 Regions Directors Cup standings for GHSA's Class AAAA. Regions Bank sponsors the annual GHSA all-sports trophy awards for the Georgia Athletic Directors Association. Each school can earn points in twenty-five different sports, with their top eight scoring teams in each gender counting toward the all-sports champion distinction. Other sports earning state playoffs points for the Hurricanes during 2014-15 were Girls and Boys Soccer, Girls and Boys Tennis, Boys Basketball, Girls Track & Field, plus Girls and Boys Cross Country. Cartersville and Heritage-Catoosa tied for the top overall spot in Region 7-AAAA with 616.5 points each. Northwest Whitfield earned the most points in the region in boys’ sports. Heritage-Catoosa was the top scoring school in the region in girls’ sports. Cartersville was second in the region for each gender. Marist was the overall winner in Class AAAA, followed by St. Pius X, Woodward Academy, Buford, and Carrollton. Adairsville was 30th overall in Class AAA, earning state playoff points in Girls Golf, Cheerleading, Girls Soccer, Football, Wrestling, Baseball, Girls Tennis, Volleyball, Boys Cross Country, and Boys Track & Field. The Tigers were fourth overall in Region 6-AAA behind Calhoun, Sonoraville, and Coahulla Creek. Westminster was the overall winner in Class AAA, followed by Blessed Trinity, Oconee County, Calhoun, and Central of Carroll County. Cass was 12th in Region 7-AAAAA, earning state playoffs points in Wrestling and Girls Track & Field. Woodland was 13th in Region 7-AAAAA with points earned as state finalists in Wrestling. Cass was 74th and Woodland 76th in the classification. Cambridge was the overall top scoring school in Region 7-AAAAA and placed third in the state behind Starr’s Mill and Allatoona. McIntosh and Greenbrier rounded out the top five in GHSA Class AAAAA. Excel Christian Academy was 12th in Region 6-A and 81st in Class A with 53 state playoffs points earned by softball. Trion was the overall top scoring school in the region and tops in girls’ sports. Mt. Paran Christian earned the most points in boys’ sports from Region 6-A. Commerce was the overall top school in Class A, followed by Athens Academy, Stratford Academy, Hebron Christian, and Trion. Sortable results for all classifications, regions, schools, and sports are available at the Georgia Athletic Directors Association website. Please see: http://gadaonline.net/Current_Standings.html

A dream for any collegiate athlete is to get to that sport’s biggest stage and be part of a team that competes for a national championship. That is exactly what former Cass High School softball standout and Shorter University softball player Kelsey Holoway experienced in her first season at the college level. Although Holoway saw limited ‘on the field’ playing time in her first season, the experience of being an every day member of a championship calibre team and immersion into that team's routines are irreplaceable. For many athletes, the transition from high school and local travel ball to the college level can be daunting. Holoway found her way to handle the pressures. "The biggest transitions for me were all of the traveling and not knowing a single person on the team when we began. Each freshman is thrown into a pool of even more freshmen and upperclassmen. Trying to find my place on the team and learn the ways of the team was often a struggle. We had a lot of away games this season. That caused us to be on the road almost every weekend. We traveled to Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. The travel was very time consuming while trying to keep up with classes," said Holoway. Shorter, in its first year of full eligibility in NCAA Division II, made a post-season run that carried the Hawks all the way to the D2 Women’s College World Series. Playing in the Gulf South Conference with teams perennially ranked nationally, Shorter finished the regular season with a 20-12 mark in the conference and entered the GSC conference tournament as a No. 4 seed, but then the team found its groove. “We didn’t play our best during the regular season,” noted Holoway. “Our record showed that. But I have never been on a team that had so much heart for the game and one another. Something turned around for us in the post season and it was a thrill to prove our team belonged.” Conference foe, Valdosta State, spent most of the 2015 regular season atop the national polls and was the host and top seed going into the Gulf South tournament. The Blazers won two of three conference games at Shorter in February. There was even doubt, at one point, whether or not the Hawks would even qualify for the conference tournament. Shorter won six of their final eight conference series and went 14-7 during that stretch to earn the fourth seed. When Valdosta State stumbled at the conference tournament and lost two straight, Shorter’s momentum was just beginning. “We started believing in ourselves and trusting each other at that conference tournament,” added Holoway. “We weren’t even ranked in the Top 25 in the nation at that point, but our confidence just grew.” Shorter won five times in the Gulf South Conference tournament and only lost once. The Hawks beat North Alabama in the finals to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. In the NCAA South Regional, the Hawks were again assigned to play in Valdosta and went 3-0 to advance. Shorter beat Alabama-Huntsville in the opening round and then knocked off Valdosta State twice to win the regional. With the regional crown, the NCAA made Shorter a Super Regional host and the Lady Hawks responded with a two game, best-of-three sweep of Florida Tech to earn a Women’s College World Series berth. At the NCAA Division II WCWS in Oklahoma City, Shorter opened with a pair of wins over St. Mary’s (TX) and Indianapolis, before falling twice in the national semifinals to eventual national champ, University of North Georgia. North Georgia shutout Dixie State (UT), 5-0, for the Nighthawks first NCAA crown. The Shorter Hawks 2015 season ended with a brilliant 43-17 overall record. Holloway relished the team experience. “We were underdogs, but the greatest thrill was our team proving we deserved to be there. Finishing third in the nation is a great accomplishment,” she added. The former Lady Colonels first baseman appeared in ten games for the Hawks in 2015 with a .250 batting average that included a double and 3 RBI. After being part of such a successful campaign, she understands what she has to do. "For me personally, I just need to continue to work hard and make the adjustments I need to make for this up coming season,” noted Holoway. "This team is full of God-given talent and hard working girls. Anyone who steps on to the field for our team is never just handed the opportunity. Every one of us work tremendously hard and every person on this team is the definition of selfless. You just have to keep working and the success will come.” Holloway believes her role and the team’s future is bright. “We're losing four seniors to graduation and a couple of others, but we have some really talented girls coming in. I believe we can do just as well next season as we did this year and hopefully even better. All it takes is us working as one unit instead of individuals,” concluded Holoway.

Excel Christian Academy is hosting a baseball and softball camp June 1-4 for ages 6 to 12 at the Excel Softball Field. The camp will run from 9am until noon each of the four days. The cost is $60 per child; $40 for a second sibling; and $20 per third sibling. Participants should bring their own bat, glove, cleats, hats, helmets, and bat bags. To register, email Chad Parker, cparker@excelca.org The Excel Softball Field is located at 325 Old Mill Road in Cartersville.