Behind the G

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In 1909, a year after the Georgia High School Association was created, state high schools competed for the first time in recorded history. Spanning two days once that year, students statewide gathered from schools in close proximity to their own for a district literary meet: Gainesville High School served as host for this area. You see, since the literal dawn of high school competition in Georgia, Big Red has been a big player, and when athletics came into the official fold they really started stomping. Now, most of the schools from that first competition don’t exist anymore, or do in another form with a different name, but GHS remains and not only that, GHS thrives, having spent the 119 years since that first recorded GHSA event building a competitive and athletic legacy few can match. I’m Katie B. Davis, 1997 graduate of GHS, sports information director AT GHS, and co-host of the new podcast Behind the G. After spending nearly 20 years telling other people’s stories as a sports write