In this first episode of the 2025-26 school year, Don Baker reveals interesting facts, stats, and other information about sports and athletics around the District. Athletic participation is increasing around the country, and Cobb is no different. More and more students are becoming athletes, thanks to more and more choices and opportunities.

Also, Brad McBrayer relates his experience of being part of the District's sports reporting team as well as the level of completion—and compassion and care—he has seen and experienced.

Takeaways:

• Cobb County School District boasts over 16 high schools, fostering immense athletic talent across diverse sports disciplines.
• The podcast discusses the remarkable increase in athletic participation among students since the pandemic, reflecting broader national trends.
• Notably, flag football and esports have emerged as rapidly growing sports, significantly enhancing student engagement in athletics.
• The introduction of the AD Impact Award highlights the importance of recognizing the hard work of athletic directors in schools throughout Cobb County.
• The recent renaming of Pope High School's football field to Matt Hobby Field exemplifies the community's commitment to honoring those who have made significant contributions to youth sports.
• Cobb County's emphasis on student safety has led to the implementation of a 20-minute emergency action meeting before sporting events, enhancing preparedness and response capabilities.

Cobb County School District is one of the largest districts in the country with over 16 competing high schools and a deep pool of talent in every sport.

This is the Cobb Sports Podcast.

Let's dig in.

So I wanted to have a, this is a.

We've been back to school now for about, about two months in fact, actually right at two months now.

So there's been a lot of athletics that have happened.

There's a lot of things going on in the classroom and out of the classroom.

But, you know, for the concern of this podcast, it's the sports.

I'm sitting here once again with Don Baker, director of athletics for, for Cobb County Schools.

So, Don, welcome back.

Yeah.

Again, absolutely appreciate you swinging by today.

Sure, Absolutely.

So one of the, one of the things that you do, you do it internally for the administration here at the county, but this newsletter that you send out always lists interesting, interesting things in there.

One of the things that I had no idea about that.

Of course you would.

Is that athletic participation overall.

So nationally, it's growing by leaps and bounds.

And it's also doing that in Cobb as well.

Yeah.

So the National Federation of High Schools recently sent out their participation survey results.

And this is really kind of a carryover from when we came out of the pandemic.

Our numbers went through the roof and we had a ton of kids that made, I don't know if they were playing at one point and then got away from it or if the pandemic made them realize, maybe I want to do more in my school community.

But since the pandemic, I think across the country you have seen an increase in athletic participation.

More kids have come out and more kids have stayed with it, which is even more important and I think speaks to interscholastic school based athletics.

Right.

They're having fun.

It means they're having fun.

It means they're building relationships, you know, while learning the lessons that that sports teaches.

Yeah.

So you're to put some, put some numbers here.

Nationally, overall, 80 or 8,200,000 plus high school, high school student athletes were participating.

And this is 24, 25.

And that was an increase of, of nearly 200,000 kids.

Right.

And we're seeing that number even growing this year.

Right?

Correct.

Yeah.

Trend.

Correct.

I mean, everything is, is trending up just like it was like it has over the last five years.

And then in, in our district, we are mirroring that.

Okay.

And so we are Almost up to 13,000 total athletes in the district.

And so again, that's a record number for us.

And I think that, again, everything that I have in front of me tells me that's going to continue.

Okay.

And I know that before we got on, we were talking about a handful of activities where we're starting to see that.

I was going to say, what do you attribute that to within the county?

So, obviously, anytime that you get a new offering, you're going to have immediate interest and no matter what that is.

But between esports and flag football, they have been game change.

They have just exploded.

When we first started to do with esports, I think only five schools took it on.

This year, I think we'll have 11.

Wow.

Okay.

And so, I mean, we've got a 43% increase in participation there.

That's the smallest end of the big three that I, that I see.

Doubling the number of schools that offered it in year between year one and year two.

And then we're going to add another one this year.

So again, that's.

That's continuously going up.

Flag football is the fastest growing sport in the country, male or female.

I think the national average, they're up in the last five years, 388% across the country.

So girls are really leaning into that sport and enjoying it.

Here in Cobb, we've had a 300% growth in that same time period.

I think when we first started, just a little less than half.

We had seven schools and about 115 kids that played it that first year.

Last year, we had 15 schools with 464 kids.

This year, all 16 schools are all for it.

So we'll be over 500 kids, more than likely, that are participating in that.

We've had multiple state champs come out of Cobb in this sport, and we've kind of made a name for ourself in this sport in a very short period of time.

And so that's, again, that speaks both to the level of coaching and the level of kids that we have in this district that are.

That are buying in and leaning into this as a new sport and kind of mirroring what is happening across the country.

It's super exciting.

Yeah, sure it is.

And I say it every chance I get it.

And while we're talking about this, flag football is beginning.

Right, right.

The game.

The games are starting this week, Correct.

Okay.

So get out there, see a flag football game.

You won't be disappointed.

It's.

It's so much fun.

It's.

It's a Moving clock.

You, you know pretty much exactly how much time you're going to have invested there.

And, and it's, it's just a fun game.

Those, those girls play hard.

They do.

And kind of to piggyback on that theme of increasing opportunities for our girl, our female athletes, girls wrestling is our highest.

We've seen our highest growth in the last five years when the GHSA split wrestling to between girls and boys before the girls were having to wrestle the boys and you know, all the way, all the way up until the state championship.

And so where they would then break off, but now that they have separated it into its own sport, we've had a 366% increase in girls wrestling in that same, you know, in that.

In the last five years.

So we started with 32 kids that said, I'll do that, you know, And I think 14 schools now, all schools offer it.

And this year will be close to 200 girls that are wrestling as well.

So again, everything is trending up for us right now.

And that's great.

Yeah, that is great.

So one of the things that you absolutely need at a high school to have a successful sports program overall is a very successful and attention to detail type ad.

And you started by AD I mean athletic director.

You started an award just this year.

You have a number of awards that you hand out.

And we've talked about the Cobb cup in previous podcasts, but this is a new award called the 80 impact award.

Yeah.

And you awarded the first one just was the Friday before spring or fall break.

Yeah.

Okay.

So this was an idea that, that I had.

And every Friday I go out and I award Athlete of the Week to our athletes in their different schools.

One male athlete, one female athlete in the entire district.

It is hands down the best part of my week.

That has been great.

And then we kind of used that and springboarded that into our Coach of the Month recognitions.

We partnered with the Atlanta Braves to do that, and they are part of that recognition.

And so every week or every month I would go out, we award the athlete of the week or we award coach of the Month, and the athletic director is obviously there.

And they would, you know, organize everything.

They would orchestrate everything just like they do every day.

And then we would take the picture and then they'd have to go to lunch duty, or they'd have to go to car duty, or they'd have to go to back to being assistant principal.

And it just kind of, I just kind of felt like they were the missing piece from A recognition standpoint.

And so with the AD Impact award, the way it's a little different is it's not selected by me, it's selected by their peers.

So the other athletic directors in the district, they nominate, and they have to write a little narrative as to why they feel like this person should win it.

And this is a partnership with the credit union of Georgia.

They are one of our fan of the game sponsors.

Both.

It's their award.

Picchino Italy is another fan of the game sponsor, and they've jumped on board to kind of add to that the swag pack that the AD gets as a result.

But this is the fan of the game program, corporate sponsorship program that is run through our foundation as well as my office in order to give back to our schools.

And this is just one benefit of that program, is we're able to show our appreciation to our athletic directors, who, quite frankly, are working two jobs.

Sure.

They are an assistant principal during the day, and at 3:30, they switch hats and they become an athletic director.

And that job could go until midnight and.

Or Saturday.

And.

Or Saturday.

And during breaks when everybody else is at the beach or whatever.

And so I just wanted to create something to highlight the job that they are doing day in and day out, not just once a year.

When we recognize the district AD of the year.

Right.

It doesn't necessarily take away from that award, but we've got ads in 16 schools that are doing great things every single day.

And so just wanted to kind of create a platform for them to be able to be celebrated there.

Okay.

And the inaugural winner is.

Matt Williams, North Cobb High School.

Yeah.

So Matt has.

Is.

Just has a unmatched devotion to his school, to his athletes, and has just done a really great job for a long time.

And so it was great.

He didn't know.

And so when I showed up, he kind of looked at me like I had two heads and like, what are you doing here?

And I'm walking down the hall with his principal and some representative from the credit union of Georgia, Amanda Arnold.

And so it kind of took him by surprise as well.

And he was very reluctant to have his photo taken because that's kind of who we are.

We kind of work behind the scenes to make sure that our kids have good experiences and our coaches have the tools that they need to coach them.

Yeah, it's kind of like being the sound guy.

People only notice you when something goes wrong.

You got that right.

Yes.

Totally agree.

All right, so along the same lines you had in your newsletter, you had Mentioned that Osborne volleyball has made history this year and they've made history by winning seven games.

Now that may not seem like a very big accomplishment, but talk a little bit about why that's such a big accomplishment.

Well, I think that one of the things that Ron Box, the athletic director there at Osborne has, they have adopted this philosophy and this focus on the word grit.

In fact, he has a hat now.

That says he does.

And it, it is a, it is built into the culture of that school now.

Not just the student athletes, but every kid in the building and the, and the staff as well.

And it really, again, I don't get caught up on the wins and losses.

Right.

Because if you could see the picture that I included that they posted on social media, the smiles on those kids faces, it looks like they've won a state championship because they have figured out that if I work hard and if I show up every day, we can accomplish something together.

And it may be something that's never been done before and they'll be able to say that moving forward.

Right.

And so I just feel like sometimes the victory is found in that resilience, in the teamwork, in the character of the student athletes that they build just 1% each day until they're able to accomplish something together.

And I just thought that it was, I thought it was great.

Yeah.

So long term success for maybe not every athlete, but most athletes who are competitive and get into sports.

Just think that wouldn't, wouldn't it be great to be a pro athlete?

Well, in Cobb we do, we have, we have 12 total players on active NFL rosters this year.

And of course, you know, we're, we're right, right in the throes of, of NFL season.

So football's on everybody's mind.

And another reason why this was, was brought to mind for me, the most recent Monday Night Football there was, there was two games.

We had Denver playing Cincinnati and then the New York jets playing Miami.

We had a representative from Cobb in all on all four of those teams in both of those games.

That's pretty cool.

Evan Ingram playing for Denver.

Miles Murphy playing for Cincinnati on the same field.

They both went to Hillgrove.

Justin Fields, in case you didn't know, went to, went to Harrison High School.

He's playing for the jets and Darren Waller playing for Miami.

31 year old.

I think he is 31 or 32 year old.

Darren Waller first game back after came back retiring and they were back, scored.

Two touchdowns for the Dolphins.

Had had an exceptional night.

He just, he was.

And I was they, they kept flashing him on the screen like that.

I'm, I'm so happy for him.

Well, and the cool part about especially the, the NBC game on the.

And what didn't affect this one, but typically I think it's that the NBC Sunday night game where they are allowed to, to introduce themselves and they say, typically they'll say they're college.

And I love when we have some of our athletes say they're high schools.

It's happened before.

And I love it when any athlete does that.

I've seen some of them even they'll say they're middle school or they're elementary school because we are a product of so many people and so many experiences.

So the fact that we have athletes that play on the highest stage that still recognize where they came from speaks to the experience they had and that it was positive.

And so I think that that's great.

And I've heard them do that from time to time.

Yeah, I think now that you say it, I think, I think when, when, when Darren Waller was playing for the Raiders, I think I heard him say North Cobb High School.

Yeah.

I mean, that's, that's pretty good.

That's pretty special.

It is.

It is.

So, yeah, we have 12.

12 Cobb players and that, that doesn't include practice teams and other, other things that you don't see on the, on the field or in the, in the, in the televised games.

So we've got more, more than 12 associated with the NFL, but 12 on, on active rosters and that.

And that is we have seven from, from Hill Grove.

And that is.

That's.

That.

That's the most from, from, from any school or I guess any.

We have most from any district in Georgia.

Is that.

That is correct.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, Georgia is, is a hotbed for football.

Has.

For.

Has been for a long time and arguably produces some of the best football players in the country.

Obviously, anytime that they rank them, Florida, Texas, California are the big three.

We're usually that next state.

Okay.

But pound for pound, I think when you look at per capita, I'll take kids from, from this state over any state.

Okay.

All right.

So moving on to our next topic here, I wanted to highlight these final two stories.

One's about student success and then one is about.

About safety, both of which are major priorities for the district.

One of these examples jumped out to me as student success is something that the Alatoona High School Leadership Council is doing.

It's something called the coffee Huddle.

It's not necessarily unique just to Allatoona, Alatoona just does a really good job highlighting it.

But they have members of their athletic leadership council.

On Fridays they will go down to their coffee shop and they.

With their classmates who have special needs and run those shops in schools across our district.

And they are able to just kind of hang out with them and sit down and have a cup of coffee and joke and laugh and just be kids together.

And I would argue that that student leadership council is probably getting more out of that interaction than the kids that are actually in there, you know, working and hanging out.

Because I remember when I was a local school ad, we had one of those, those kids are working Jack like they are.

They are on the clock when they are, you know, doing that.

And they take a great deal of pride in that as well.

But I think that, you know, these huddles like they're doing in Allatoona, and I know that they shared some pictures with that and there's a smile on every face.

Right.

And I think that it's providing lessons of empathy, of patience, of perspective, that slowing down and engaging with your peers, which quite frankly, kids don't do as much anymore.

Right, right, right.

With their phones and with technology and it's got to be fast and, and everything is just moving so fast, you lose that genuine conversation, that genuine connection face to face.

You got it.

And this is giving them an opportunity to do that with, with a group of kids that they may or may not have normal with and on and vice versa.

Those kids that are in that coffee shop get a sense of I'm just like any other kid in this building.

And I think that that is a huge benefit as well.

You know, spending time with those athletic leaders, it creates that sense of belonging that they're just as much as part of that building as anybody else, because they are.

And so I feel like it's just a great idea.

And I think it's.

I know that Chris Murray, the athletic director there at Alatuna, he said it's the best part of his week to go in there and hang out with them when they do that on Fridays.

And I think it's a great idea.

That's great.

Yeah.

All right, last topic for you, Don.

Sure.

Student safety.

So one of the things that, that, that we started doing before the football and I assume this is going to be before, even before, like basketball games and is before any sporting event.

Yeah.

So.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

So the plan is, and what you're referring to is what we are calling our 20 minute meeting and Want to give Ron Boggs, again, athletic director at Osborne, a pat on the back because he was the one that really took this ball and ran with it following the demar Hamlin incident.

We had an AD meeting shortly after that incident happened.

And what I did, I presented what all went into the emergency response that night.

That saved his life, quite frankly.

And part of that was a 90 minute meeting that the NFL does.

It's a required meeting that happens 90 minutes before kickoff of every NFL game where everyone involved in the emergency action plan meets to go over what their plan is in the event that they have a variety of emergencies.

It could be weather, it could be health related, and it allows everyone the chance to introduce themselves, to put a name with a face, so that in the event they have to press play on that emergency action plan or eap, that everybody knows who everybody is.

It's not the first time you're seeing that guy or that girl.

You got it?

And so what Ron did is a couple years ago, he modified it and he calls it a 20 minute meeting.

So it happens 20 minutes before kickoff.

And all of those parties, the officials, the school administration, school resource officers, the EMTs that are on site, athletic directors from both schools, trainers from both schools, and even this year we're implementing, coaches from both schools all meet.

It takes about five minutes.

And it is the most valuable five minutes of the night.

And I know that.

So if you go to one of our football games, it's a Cobb football game, you may see about 20 minutes prior to kickoff, a gathering at midfield of those people.

That's what they're doing.

They are going over the emergency action plan so that in the event they have to execute that plan, everybody knows what everybody's role is.

And it makes that process move much smoother.

I can tell you at the beginning of the season when we had severe weather, I think the third year in a row, the very first week of football, right, I was at Osborne and we had our 20 minute meeting.

We talked about, in the event that we have to evacuate the stadium, this is what we need to do.

We literally said, ready, break.

We turned and had to implement that.

We had weather that rolled in really, really quickly, but it went really smoothly because we had just gone over it.

And so that attention to detail is something that at the end of the day, I'm not going to compromise on.

Our two main goals is student safety and student athlete experience, in that order.

And so this, the 20 minute meeting that we're doing, I'm learning something every single time that we do it.

Okay.

Recently I was at Hillgrove and Jonathan Brown, athletic director there, he's doing that.

And their trainer, he gave a non verbal cue to the EMTs.

He was like, and obviously we're doing this not on video, but he made an X with his arms and he was like, he looked at the EMTs, he goes, if you see me do this, that means I need you now.

Okay.

That's a huge time saver.

Right?

You keep everybody engaged.

He's using non verbal communication to expedite things.

That's a great idea.

And so as I have gone to other 20 minute meetings, I've told that ad and we're going to talk about it when we meet here in a week or so.

If you can implement those non verbals and speed up that process, you could save a life by doing that.

And so every single time that I go to one of these, I end up coming away better and finding better ways to do things because of the great people that we've got on site.

Is that something that GHSA mandates for us or is that something that we're doing?

No, we kind of took the lead on that.

So this was something that was not taking place.

And we, you know, obviously I saw what happened with Damar, Hamlin saw the benefit of Ron doing it on a smaller scale and I just said, listen, this is moving forward.

This is what we're doing.

Okay.

And so we have kind of been a trailblazer in regards to this safety piece and other districts are now jumping on board to do the same thing because they're seeing value in it as well.

Okay, so back to my initial question then.

Is this something that you are seeing that will be implemented before every sport or how do you.

Good question.

So the plan this year is to.

We're doing it for every football game, every home football game, and then every home basketball game.

Whenever you move from an outdoor stadium into a indoor arena, the emergency action plan looks different.

There are different challenges with both.

And so you need to be able to communicate that as we move forward.

When we get into the spring, we have all, we go back outside now.

We've, we've kind of created a template as to what it's going to look like.

So if a school chooses to continue to do that in the spring, they can.

But right now the requirement is at our football games and then at our basketball.

Basketball games.

So that's the plan right now.

Okay.

Is there anything that I haven't asked you that you wanted to add on this?

This first podcast of the 20, 25, 26 school year.

I think that, you know, still in, in all of our fall sports right now, we've got teams that are ranked.

We have teams that are playing at a very high level.

And I would just encourage you, go out and support our kids, go out and support our coaches because, you know, they're, they're really, they're pouring into your kid and so they're, they're taking time away from their family to pour into your kid and go support not only your kid, but support the effort of the school and the community school that is pouring into your kid and just see the great things that they're doing because they are.

You know, I think that Cobb's the best place to teach, lead, learn, and play.

Right.

I've said that to the superintendent a couple times.

I'm like, you don't have to put it formally on anything if you don't want to, but I do because I believe it.

And so go out, support them.

And we appreciate that.

Support.

Don Baker, thanks for joining the Kyle Sports Podcast.

Thank you.

Welcome to the bonus segment of the Cobb Sports Podcast.

And I am sitting here in a different room with Brad McBrayer, who's the newest to our sports reporting team for the, for the Cobb School district.

And Brad, you've been, you're.

First of all, you're a, you're a born and bred Cobb.

You're a Cobb grad.

I am.

Tell us a little bit about yourself.

Yeah, I grew up in West Cobb Middle School and North Cobb High School, and I was a basketball player mostly.

I played football for a little bit, but I was mostly a basketball player.

I went on to the University of Georgia and then came back to live right here at home where I was, where I grew up.

Okay.

And you did sports video for 30.

Plus years with Turner Sports, first with CNN Sports and then with Turner Sports, the entertainment side, doing things on TNT and TBS and all their different brands.

And then you also were getting into being an official for several sports with ghsa.

I did.

After Covid, I was looking for something to do to get out of the house since work kind of locked me in the work from home mode.

And one of the things I did at the urging of a friend was I was certified to be a GHSA high school umpire.

I did that for about five years.

And then I had started, I was certified to be a football official for a season when I ended up stepping into this role.

Okay, now there's a.

You.

You did a, you did a Podcast with Don Baker and Josh Matthews.

What several years ago I did is about two years ago.

Okay.

They have a podcast that it's talks about the role of the AD and all the different things that the AD deals with, athletic directors deal with on regular basis.

And they had a specific episode relating to high school officials and they wanted players and parents kind of know the other side of the story there.

And so I was one of the guests on that episode.

Okay.

Yeah, so we'll, we'll link that in the show notes if you want to, if you want to listen to that, that interview and that, that's kind of, I guess, a deep dive into.

And I, because I haven't listened to it yet, but, but it's a pretty much a deep dive into what it, what it takes to be an official with, with for high school sports.

Yes.

And then I think that's something people need to know is that the high school officials that we have aren't just volunteers that are thrown onto the field without any background or training.

There is some extensive training that goes into it.

And in particular in this area with the high level of sports that we have in Cobb county, the training is very extensive, very, very extensive on field training, online training, it's a lot.

And you have some good officials, really, really good officials that are on the field that know what they're talking about.

Okay.

All right.

So like I said, you can link to that or click the link for that for that podcast if you want to learn more about what it takes to be an official for high school sports.

All that to say Brad knows sports.

I do.

I do have a, have a connection with sports.

That is true.

So give me your maybe 60 second synopsis of what you've.

You've.

You've obviously been.

Been intimately involved with it as an official and as a, as a fan.

But, but now, now you're seeing it from a little bit of a, of a, of a different angle.

What, what's your, your overall impressions, I guess, of, of, of the quality of athletes, of the, the programs of, of the, the staff.

All of the, all of the things.

Going on with Cobb thing I will say about Cobb sports, and I have been saying this since my, my children and playing their sports, Cobb athletics in general, it's on the level in many cases with college sports.

Okay.

My son in particular played at baseball at Walton High School and he essentially would tell people he was playing college baseball while he was in high school because so many of his teammates were committed to play in college baseball at a D1 level.

So the level of talent, what goes on on the field in Cobb county is in many cases college level talent.

And it's not just in baseball.

It's basketball, it's football, it's across the board.

And, and I've seen that just in my short time with the sports team here is that we are seeing great athletes who are far beyond most high schoolers when it comes to talent and their abilities.

Yeah, that's one of the things that Don Baker says.

Usually he says it on almost every podcast, but he says, name the sport and I'll, and I'll.

I'll show you the athlete that we have.

That, that, that's, that's top, elite level that excels.

And usually it's not just the athlete.

It's.

It's.

It's several or dozens.

You know, there's a lot, there's a lot of talent within the county.

All right.

There's also other really good, like, heartwarming things going on too.

And you were, you were just at.

At a game at.

At Pope.

So tell us a little bit about what happened the Friday before fall break.

Yeah, so the Friday before fall break at Pope High School, they were celebrating the 20th anniversary of the first ever mat hobby game.

And the mat hobby game at Pope within the Pope community is.

It's a special thing for them because it represents one, a former football player for Pope High School that unfortunately dealt with cancer.

He ended up passing away just after his senior class graduated.

But while he was at Pope back 20 plus years ago, they started a small fundraiser on his behalf.

But in dealing with what he was going through, going to all the different cancer centers throughout the nation for his treatments, he saw the need that there was for research and aid and funding for childhood cancer, the childhood cancer research.

And so he asked that the funds that were raised for him not go to him and his family, but to go to childhood cancer research in a broad scale.

That turned into the mat hobby game, which became a huge fundraiser for Pope High School every year.

And they've done it now for 21 years.

Again, this was the 20th anniversary, and they've raised over $400,000 in that time to go towards the research.

And this one, just at that, just.

At that game alone, just at that.

Game alone at Pope High School.

And this particular one was very special because not only was it the 20th anniversary, but the Pope used that opportunity to honor Matt even further by renaming their football facility Matt Hobby Field in his honor.

Oh, wow.

And that was, that was.

It was.

It was meant to be a surprise to the family.

And I asked you earlier, do you think that they, because you know how these, these things tend to, tend to get out.

But you think it was truly a surprise?

I truly think it was a surprise.

His father, Judd, is a very calm demeanored man and he, he doesn't have big reactions, so it was hard to tell from him.

But his wife Pam, I could tell the motion hit her pretty hard and, and real, and there was some real emotion there.

So I do think the family was completely surprised.

That's amazing.

That's great.

So just wanted to introduce you to Brad.

You'll be hearing more from him on the Cobb Sports Podcast as we continue through this year.

And speaking of research and funding for childhood cancer, this Saturday at Lassiter, they're holding the, I don't know offhand, I don't know what the 21st annual or whatever the number is, but the Rider rally for Rider, which is, which is another Ryder Ewing was diagnosed with childhood cancer.

And so they've been playing this, it's now a lacrosse tournament, I guess, but it's all ages.

So what they really try to do is get girls involved more heavily in lacrosse, get them interested.

And again, so it's elementary through middle through high.

So there's all sorts of, and there's schools all around the metro area to come.

But that'll be this Saturday at Lassiter.

And it's a, it's a big event.

If you don't know about it.

It's called Rally for Rider.

Look it up.

And then, of course, there'll be an article afterward.

I hope you enjoyed this episode and learned something that you didn't know about sports and student athletes around the district.

We'll do this again next time, but until then, keep supporting your favorite schools and teams around Cobb.

Thanks for listening.