Georgia Tech

Even with the departures of three starters along the offensive line from last year’s squad, the Tech football team expects to be better up front as the 2010 season gets underway. With two redshirt seniors leading the way and several talented underclassmen expected to contribute after strong play in fall camp, the Jackets feature talent and depth at every position along the line and will look to improve their play after a season that saw the team rush for 295.4 yards per game and pass for 151.6 yards per game.

Men’s basketball team to play in tournament in Bahamas

This season, the Tech football team will have to endure multiple changes if they want to repeat as ACC Champions. The team will have a new B-back, a new starting wide receiver, a new safety and a new defensive end. Even Tech’s jerseys will be a little bit different from last year’s.

Four teams, Tech, Indiana, Alabama A&M and UAB, all opened their respective seasons with last weekend’s Courtyard Marriott Classic. Tech hosted the tournament at O’Keefe Gym and won two of its three games. Tech dropped the opener to Indiana on Friday, Aug. 28 but won both matches the following day.

Several of Tech football’s units have gone through transitional phases in the months following the end of the 2009 season thanks to the departures of vital players on both the offense and defense. One such unit is the wide receiving corps, which faces the task of replacing Demaryius Thomas after the star receiver departed for the NFL after his redshirt junior season. Tech has several talented options in the receiving corps, though, and the unit will look to continue improving its skills as the start of the season approaches.

Last season, Tech won the ACC and received an invite to play in the Orange Bowl. However, Tech and three other ACC teams lost their bowl games doing nothing to supplant the ACC’s reputation as purely a “basketball conference.”

On Aug. 11, senior tennis player Eliot Potvin finished runner-up in the ITA/USTA National Summer Championship. Potvin entered the tournament as the No. 2 overall seed behind Daniel Stahl of Notre Dame.

Last season, the Tech golf team won the ACC and made a deep run in the NCAA Championships. In a display of the players’ progress, three of Tech’s golfers played well enough this summer to qualify for the U.S. Amateur Golf Championship. Senior Paul Haley, junior William Miller and incoming freshman

With several key players from last season’s squad returning to lead a young but talented roster, the Tech volleyball team enters the 2010 season prepared to contend for an ACC title and a second straight berth in the NCAA Tournament.