Spencer Adams Highlights BLITZ Player of the Year Awards for 2014

White County's Spencer Adams took home Player of the Year honors in basketball and baseball.  Adams signed with UGA to pitch for the Bulldogs, but may elect to play professionally if he is drafted in the early rounds of the MLB Draft.

Spencer Adams Highlights Player of the Year Awards for 2014

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All it takes is a glance back over the 2013-14 school year to see just how much talent we had in local prep sports.  Many of the standouts from this year have inked scholarships to play at the next level, while there are still plenty of holdovers that will lead their respective teams next season and in the years to come.

Spring 2014 saw many players come into their own, while we saw many that were expected to shine, do just that.  Spencer Adams, a White County two-sport star, was one of those prep athletes.  Adams took home the Boys Basketball Player of the Year award as well as nabbing the Baseball Player of the Year award by the slimmest of margins.  A complete look over this year's players of the year can be found here.   

Breaking down the players of the year by school goes as follows:

Habersham Central

Softball - Georgia Webb (Senior)

Volleyball - Caeli Chambers (Senior)

White County

Cross Country - Jenna Gearing (Sophomore)*

Boys Basketball - Spencer Adams (Senior)

Boys Golf - Garrett Rowland (Junior)

Baseball - Spencer Adams (Senior)

Dawson County

Girls Basketball - Sheyenne Seabolt (Junior)

Girls Soccer - Anela Melton (Junior)

Boys Soccer - Brandon Lund (Junior) 

Girls Golf - Madison Caldwell (Junior)*

Lumpkin County

Girls Tennis - Brittany Stewart (Senior)*

Towns County

NONE

Union County

Football - Joseph Mancuso (Sophomore)

Banks County

Boys Tennis - Gatlin Boswell & Justin Yang (Seniors)

Commerce

Wrestling - Chance McClure (Senior)*

Cheerleading (Team of the Year)*

Rabun County

Girls Track - Sally Woerner (Senior)

Boys Track - Charlie Woerner (Sophomore)

Hayesville

NONE

*Notates a repeat award winner from the 2012-13 school year also

This was an anomaly with the obvious overload of sophomore talent.  White County's Jenna Gearing has already earned six state titles in two years of varsity long distance running.  Two cross country titles are now joined by four state championships in the two long distance track and field events (1600 & 3200).  Gearing has a great shot at being the best in state history, and can very easily become decorated with as many as 12 state titles with a clean sweep the rest of her career.

Rabun County's Charlie Woerner is a phenomenal football player on both sides of the ball, and was narrowly beat out for Player of the Year by Union County sophomore QB Joseph Mancuso.  Both are talented players we will see on the gridiron for two more seasons!  Woerner took home the Track Athlete of the Year award, and should win at least one state title before his T&F career wraps up.  

Madison Caldwell of Dawson has become the second girl to win back-to-back Golfer of the Year awards in the history of BLITZ (2009-Present), joining Lumpkin County's Morgan Wood in 2010 and 2011.  Caldwell has a shot to win three straight, while Gearing can do the same in cross country in fall of 2014.  Gearing narrowly missed winning her second straight Track Athlete of the Year when Rabun's Sally Woerner got much love from the voting panel after winning a state title in hurdles.

All in all, it was another incredible year for Northeast Georgia prep sports, and look out for Rabun's football team, which is loaded with talent, along with Dawson County's boys and girls soccer teams, the latter of which is the heavy favorite to win state next year.