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Chattahoochee Tech Takes Fourth

Students from Bartow County, including one of Cartersville, were among those who helped team earn the highest finish out of Georgia schools in a horticulture competition.

More than 20 Chattahoochee Technical College students, instructors and staff members celebrated Sunday in Joliet, Ill., as it was announced that the team had placed fourth in the annual competition portion of PLANET Student Career Days.  

“It was a great result,” Shane Evans, instructor and division chair of technical programs, said in a news release Sunday. “The students performed well as individuals and as a team, which was certainly rewarded in today’s final outcome.”

For nearly 20 years, the team has finished in the top 10 in the nation, including first-place finishes in 2008 and 2010. Led by horticulture instructors Evans, John Hatfield and Bejie Herrin, the team competed against about 800 students from both two-year and four-year colleges and universities. As many as 100 students competed in some of the competition’s 28 events.

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Helping the team make its way to a fourth-place finish were Bartow residents Joseph Moore of White and Anita Philips of Acworth, who were among those walking away with top-10 finishes in individual events. Moore took first in Landscape Plant Installation and Phillips took third in Personnel Management.

Cartersville resident Nanci Lee also was on the Chattahoochee Tech team.

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Chattahoochee Tech’s team scored a combined 3,902.61 points, just behind top three finishers Brigham Young University – Provo, University of Michigan and Brigham Young University-Idaho. Along with the school’s fourth-place award, the team had 17 individual or small group finishes in the top 10, including seven top-three finishers in individual and group events. The school’s top finisher among individual competition was Humzah Khraim of Marietta, who came in fourth out of 807 competitors.

“These men and women have made us very proud,” CTC President Sanford Chandler said in the release. “It is proof again that CTC’s programs and students can compete against the best and brightest in the industry.”

Attached to this article are .pdf versions of the school’s team roster and top-10 finishers.


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