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Grey Richardson excels as Buford wrestling state champ, football defensive lineman
Anytime, anywhere. That’s the motto for Grey Richardson, a state champion wrestler in his weight class and a key member of Buford’s state championship football team last season. It’s not a combination of sports that usually goes together with the calendars overlapping and the physical demands both require, but none of it bothers Richardson. Not even when the two schedules completely back into each other. “I love his attitude,” Buford wrestling head coach Tom Beuglas said. “For example, we’re going out to Kansas City two days after the football state championship. And if we make it, he’s going to have to stay and play football. And I go, ‘I guess you’re not going to be going to Kansas City.’ And he goes, ‘Oh, I’m going!’” Richardson plays on the defensive line in football, a body type that creates both advantages and disadvantages for wrestling. On one hand, a lot of the techniques are the same. Getting leverage, using his hands, beating the guy in front of him. But in the same vein he wrestles in the 285-pound division, a spot many schools either can’t fill or maybe only have one wrestler. It meant at times he had to wrestle a
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Georgia Festival of Trees brings holiday fun and activities Nov. 21-29
Georgia Festival of Trees will return Nov. 21-29 for its week-long celebration with a new holiday children’s book to guide families through the festival of custom-designed Christmas trees. Held at Gas South Convention Center in Duluth, the festival features trees, wreaths, centerpieces, and nativity scenes designed, decorated, and donated by individuals and organizations across the […] The post Georgia Festival of Trees brings holiday fun and activities Nov. 21-29 appeared first on Rough Draft® .
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Buford grad Teresa Metz has gone from soccer star to parachute team member at the United States Military Academy
As a member of the parachute team at the United States Military Academy in West Point, senior Teresa Metz has made more than 400 jumps, including recently landing on the field at historic Michie Stadium before the college football game between Army and Tulane on Oct. 10. But prior to her appointment to West Point, Metz — a standout soccer player at Buford High — had spent very little time aloft. “I had rarely been in airplanes before,” said Metz, who graduated from Buford in 2023 and will graduate from West Point this spring. “I was in high school when I flew for the first time. When I came to West Point, I had no jumping experience at all.” The Cumming resident — who attended Pinecrest Academy before enrolling at Buford — had two older brothers who wrestled at West Point. When she visited them one weekend and saw the parachute team in action before a football game, Metz knew what she wanted to pursue at the academy. “I came up for a football game to visit my brothers and we saw them wrestling and then went to a football game, a staple weekend activity,” she said. “The parachute team
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Gwinnett Daily Post
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Defense, special teams help Buford pull away from Marietta
BUFORD — With the Buford offense struggling in the first half, the Wolves’ defense and special teams took over in the third quarter. A safety, a big kickoff return and a long punt return in a span of less than five minutes in the third put a close football game out of reach. That sequence propelled the Wolves to a 30-6 win over Marietta in the first round of the Class AAAAAAA state playoffs on Friday.. “There is no game in Class 7A that’s easy. Every team that makes the last 32 (of the playoffs) is good enough to beat anybody at any given time,” Buford head coach Bryant Appling said. “If you slop around at times it’s going to look like that. I am proud of the defense and how they played. They bowed their necks all game. We started making plays on defense, we started making plays on special teams and we got the offense rolling.” Defending state champion Buford (11-0) will host Archer in the second round of the state playoffs after the Tigers upset North Cobb 24-17. Buford led 7-0 at halftime and the Wolves punted on their first possession of the third quarter. Punter Valentino