Dear Whitefield Community,
As we approach the end of the 2016-2017 athletic year, I’d like to announce three athletic updates for the 2017-2018 year.
Varsity Boys Basketball
Over the past 15 years, the Whitefield boys basketball program has experienced tremendous success with Coach Tyrone Johnson at the helm. Under his leadership, Whitefield has become one of the elite teams in Class A, winning three state basketball championships and claiming four runner-up finishes.
Coach Johnson has reached a decision to focus his attention on his role as Whitefield’s director of student life. As a result, Whitefield will bring in a new coach to build upon the highly-successful WolfPack basketball program. It is with great excitement that I share with you that Coach Courtney Brooks will become the new head basketball coach effective for the 2017-2018 season.
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Coach Brooks comes to Whitefield from Fellowship of Christian Athletes, where he has served in the basketball ministry for the past two years. He has over 18 years of coaching experience at both the high school and college level and was a four-year basketball letterman at Georgia State University. As head boys basketball coach at Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, he led the Warriors to two state championships and one state runner-up finish and was named state coach of the year by the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association. Eighteen of his former players have gone on to play NCAA college basketball, and three have been drafted to the NBA.
With Jesus Christ as the foundation of his coaching, Coach Brooks’ goal for the WolfPack basketball program is twofold: to impress upon his players the importance of building a relationship with the Savior and to develop a mindset of tenacious work ethic held in place with discipline, obedience, unity, and chemistry.
We are excited to welcome Coach Brooks to the WolfPack family and are incredibly thankful to Coach Johnson for the passion he has brought to the basketball program and for the lives he has impacted through his mentorship. Please join me in welcoming Coach Brooks and thanking Coach Johnson!
Varsity Cheerleading
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The WolfPack Athletic Department would like to introduce Coach Amelia Carmichael as the varsity cheerleading coach for the 2017-2018 school year.
Coach Carmichael joined Whitefield in the fall of 2016 as a Middle School English teacher and assisted the Middle School cross-country team. Prior to Whitefield, she worked in Cobb County Schools and served as a community cheer coach for Kennesaw Mountain High School junior cheerleading for four years and South Cobb High School junior cheerleading for five years. She has coached cheerleading for basketball, football, and competition squads.
With Whitefield’s mission statement as the centerpiece of the cheerleading program, Coach Carmichael hopes to create a sisterhood of disciplined, passionate, and Christ-centered athletes who support one another, the teams for which they cheer, and the Whitefield community as a whole.
We thank Coach Andrea Blackwood for her years of service to the WolfPack cheerleading program and are grateful for the energy and school spirit she has fostered at Whitefield. We are excited that she will be continuing her passion for teaching as a member of the Middle School English department next year.
Athletic Training
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Also joining the WolfPack family next year is Coach Felicia Tucker, who will serve as Whitefield’s head athletic trainer.
Coach Tucker has served as the head athletic trainer for the Georgia Tech women’s basketball team for the past eight years and has also overseen the care for the Yellow Jacket cheerleading squad. Prior to Georgia Tech, she was an assistant athletic trainer at Winston-Salem State University and head athletic trainer at Agnes Scott College, where she provided primary care and coverage for seven varsity teams along with establishing treatment and rehabilitation protocols.
Coach Tucker earned her bachelor's degree in exercise and sports science from the University of North Carolina and her master's degree in sports medicine from Georgia State University. A NATABOC certified athletic trainer, she is a member of the National Athletic Trainer's Association and the Georgia Athletic Trainers' Association, and she is licensed by the state of Georgia as an athletic trainer.
While we look forward to finishing out a great spring season, we are excited about the future of WolfPack athletics and are eager to see what the 2017-2018 season has in store.
Thank you for backing the Pack with us!
Danny Ryan
Athletic Director
As we approach the end of the 2016-2017 athletic year, I’d like to announce three athletic updates for the 2017-2018 year.
Varsity Boys Basketball
Over the past 15 years, the Whitefield boys basketball program has experienced tremendous success with Coach Tyrone Johnson at the helm. Under his leadership, Whitefield has become one of the elite teams in Class A, winning three state basketball championships and claiming four runner-up finishes.
Coach Johnson has reached a decision to focus his attention on his role as Whitefield’s director of student life. As a result, Whitefield will bring in a new coach to build upon the highly-successful WolfPack basketball program. It is with great excitement that I share with you that Coach Courtney Brooks will become the new head basketball coach effective for the 2017-2018 season.
Coach Brooks comes to Whitefield from Fellowship of Christian Athletes, where he has served in the basketball ministry for the past two years. He has over 18 years of coaching experience at both the high school and college level and was a four-year basketball letterman at Georgia State University. As head boys basketball coach at Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, he led the Warriors to two state championships and one state runner-up finish and was named state coach of the year by the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association. Eighteen of his former players have gone on to play NCAA college basketball, and three have been drafted to the NBA.
With Jesus Christ as the foundation of his coaching, Coach Brooks’ goal for the WolfPack basketball program is twofold: to impress upon his players the importance of building a relationship with the Savior and to develop a mindset of tenacious work ethic held in place with discipline, obedience, unity, and chemistry.
We are excited to welcome Coach Brooks to the WolfPack family and are incredibly thankful to Coach Johnson for the passion he has brought to the basketball program and for the lives he has impacted through his mentorship. Please join me in welcoming Coach Brooks and thanking Coach Johnson!
Varsity Cheerleading
The WolfPack Athletic Department would like to introduce Coach Amelia Carmichael as the varsity cheerleading coach for the 2017-2018 school year.
Coach Carmichael joined Whitefield in the fall of 2016 as a Middle School English teacher and assisted the Middle School cross-country team. Prior to Whitefield, she worked in Cobb County Schools and served as a community cheer coach for Kennesaw Mountain High School junior cheerleading for four years and South Cobb High School junior cheerleading for five years. She has coached cheerleading for basketball, football, and competition squads.
With Whitefield’s mission statement as the centerpiece of the cheerleading program, Coach Carmichael hopes to create a sisterhood of disciplined, passionate, and Christ-centered athletes who support one another, the teams for which they cheer, and the Whitefield community as a whole.
We thank Coach Andrea Blackwood for her years of service to the WolfPack cheerleading program and are grateful for the energy and school spirit she has fostered at Whitefield. We are excited that she will be continuing her passion for teaching as a member of the Middle School English department next year.
Athletic Training
Also joining the WolfPack family next year is Coach Felicia Tucker, who will serve as Whitefield’s head athletic trainer.
Coach Tucker has served as the head athletic trainer for the Georgia Tech women’s basketball team for the past eight years and has also overseen the care for the Yellow Jacket cheerleading squad. Prior to Georgia Tech, she was an assistant athletic trainer at Winston-Salem State University and head athletic trainer at Agnes Scott College, where she provided primary care and coverage for seven varsity teams along with establishing treatment and rehabilitation protocols.
Coach Tucker earned her bachelor's degree in exercise and sports science from the University of North Carolina and her master's degree in sports medicine from Georgia State University. A NATABOC certified athletic trainer, she is a member of the National Athletic Trainer's Association and the Georgia Athletic Trainers' Association, and she is licensed by the state of Georgia as an athletic trainer.
While we look forward to finishing out a great spring season, we are excited about the future of WolfPack athletics and are eager to see what the 2017-2018 season has in store.
Thank you for backing the Pack with us!
Danny Ryan
Athletic Director