Augusta, GA
Elizabeth Metress joins family business of basketball with new job at Coastal Carolina
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – Augusta College males’s basketball coach Dip Metress has devoted his skilled life to the sport of basketball. So it’s no shock his daughter Elizabeth shares his similar ardour for the sport. Now, she’s going to start her skilled profession because the director of girls’s basketball operations at Coastal Carolina College underneath new head coach Kevin Pederson.
Metress got here to Conway, South Carolina after spending 5 years working with the Georgia Bulldogs ladies’s basketball program as each a scholar supervisor and graduate assistant coach. She started her profession as a scholar supervisor in 2017 till 2020 when she was promoted to a graduate assistant coach.
She spent many summers working her dad’s basketball camp at Augusta College and loved a profitable taking part in profession at Grovetown Excessive College. Dip Metress, who simply wrapped up his 18th season on the helm of the Jaguars, recollects taking her to her first recreation when she was simply 4 weeks previous.
“She’s type of come full circle on this basketball world,” stated Dip. “She all the time wished tp pursue this dream of teaching basketball, regardless of my arguments generally to don’t do that. However she’s undoubtedly pursuing one thing she loves. And training may be very exhausting, since you don’t know when your alternative goes to come back about.”
Dip laughed when he talked about that Elizabeth will formally transfer out of the home on Monday. However earlier than that, there are some rites of passage left to get pleasure from in Athens, Georgia. “She graduates Thursday, and can stroll throughout the stage at Stegeman Coliseum on Friday,” added Dip. “She’s already began working in Myrtle Seaside. It’s an unbelievable alternative at 23 years-old to be on the employees with a brand new coach and an incredible, rising college.”
Elizabeth Metress holds a bachelor’s diploma in arithmetic training and a minor in sport administration together with a grasp’s diploma in kinesiology from the College of Georgia.
Dip Metress will maintain his annual children basketball camp at Augusta College from June 20-24.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – The Community Foundation for the CSRA is pleased says it’s entering a new phase of its Hurricane Helene Community Crisis Fund granting process.
Since the storm’s aftermath, the Foundation has granted $2,803,500 to nonprofits that have worked on the front lines providing critical services and administering aid.
This phase of granting will continue to fund in 20 counties, in both Georgia and South Carolina, that were impacted by Hurricane Helene.
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The foundation will expand its granting parameters to include not just 501(c)3 nonprofits, but also churches, civic organizations, and schools who have been or will be providing direct services to Helene impacted individuals.
Shell Berry, president and CEO of the Community Foundation for the central Savannah River Area, said:
The foundation has developed five grant categories: Relief Reimbursement, Lost Revenue, Increased Operating Costs, Infrastructure Needs for Public Lands, and Long-term Recovery Programming. These categories aim to provide comprehensive support for affected communities and organizations.
The foundation has also recruited a volunteer grant panel that is made up of individuals who represent many of the counties we fund.
Working with the staff of the foundation, this volunteer panel will ensure that funding decisions reflect the needs and perspective of the communities we serve.
Their insights will be invaluable in evaluating applications and making final funding decisions.
For more information about this new granting process, please visit the Community Foundation’s website, ww.cfcsra.org. To contribute to the Hurricane Helene Community Crisis Fund, visit www.cfcsra.org.
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