The 61st Ashley Dearing Award Nominations 2014

It’s that time of year again, The 61^st Ashley Dearing Award. The award is named after the late Ashley Dearing, a former Savannah auto dealer and strong supporter of local high school sports. It is given to a male high school athlete in Savannah, who has participated in football, basketball and a spring sport. Ashley loved high school sports in Savannah, and it is evident in his Greater Savannah Athletic Hall of Fame bio.

“Dearing has been a long-time booster of local sports and is most noted for his annual award to the most versatile high school athlete, which he has been awarding since 1953. A year later, Dearing also began awarding the Dearing Cup, presented to the Armstrong Atlantic State University basketball player with the best foul shot percentage. Dearing has served as a member of the Savannah Recreation Commission, the Board of Trustees of the Victor B. Jenkins Boys Club, and the Greater Savannah Athletic Hall of Fame Trustees. He has also been on the advisory council of the Chatham County Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He received the Honorary F Award from the University of Florida for interest in athletics and sports programs at the school. Dearing was named “1969 Man of the Year” for service to youth by the Savannah Co-Ed Hi-Y Council by the Savannah YMCA.”

This year there are 60 nominations as listed below. The 61^st Ashley Dearing Award recipient will be announced shortly. The nominee that receives the most votes from the Ashley Dearing Award committee is declared the winner. The committee is made up of members of the media, WJCL, WSAV, WTOC, and the Savannah Morning News and all athletic directors in Chatham County who have varsity football, basketball, and varsity spring sports. Good luck to all candidates.

SCHOOL	61st Ashley Dearing Nominations 2014
Beach	1.      Bryant, Marlon (Senior); football, basketball, soccer 2.      Peterson, Malik (Senior); football, basketball, baseball
Benedictine	3.      Holguin, Joseph (Junior); football, basketball, baseball 4.      Johnson, Noah (Freshman); football, basketball, track 5.      Kennedy, John (Freshman); football, basketball, track 6.      King, Adam (Freshman); football, basketball, baseball 7.      Kropp, Will (Feshman ); football, basketball, golf 8.      Mahoney, Brendan (Freshman); football, basketball, lacrosse 9.      Marini, Chase (Sophomore); football, basketball, baseball 10.   Marini, Cooper (Freshman); football, basketball, baseball 11.   Moore, Philip (Freshman); football, basketball, baseball 12.   Muller, Jack (Junior); football, basketball, lacrosse 13.   Stewart, Brad (Junior); football, basketball, baseball 14.   Werntz, Drew (Junior); football, basketball, track 15.   Whitfield, Nick (Freshman); football, basketball, track 16.   Williams, Josh (Junior); football, basketball, track 17.   Winders, Ben (Freshman); football, basketball, track 18.   Wright, Ben (Senior); football, basketball, baseball
Bible Baptist	19.   Boatwright, Chad (Senior); football, basketball, baseball 20.   Campbell, Kennard (Senior); football, basketball, baseball 21.   Campbell, William (Junior); football, basketball, baseball 22.   Cowart, Chris (Senior); football, basketball, soccer 23.   Gale, Brighton (Junior); football, basketball, baseball
Calvary	Bivens, Adante (Freshman); football, basketball, track Bostick, Kobe (Freshman); football, basketball, track Calderon, Salvador (Freshman); football, basketball, track Elton, Marc (Junior); football, basketball, baseball  Gaylord, Evan (Freshman);  football, basketball, baseball Herndon, Alex (Sophomore): football, basketball, track Wells, Thomas (Freshman); football, basketball, baseball
Groves	31.   Davis, Jerry (Senior);  football, basketball, track 32.   Mitchell, Clarence (Junior);  football, basketball, soccer
Jenkins	33.   Benlevi, Malik (Junior); football, basketball, track                    34.   Futch, Montraveon (Freshman); football, basketball, track         35.   Lanier, Jamelle (Senior); football, basketball, track 36.   Smalls, Melvin  (Freshman); football, basketball,track
Johnson	37.   Darryl  Meyers (Senior); football, basketball, track 38.   Dushad Morris (Senior); football, basketball, baseball
Memorial Day School	39.   Cooper, Miacah (Junior); football, basketball, track 40.   Dukes, Kendarius(Senior); football, basketball, track 41.   Ford, Kevin (Sophomore); football, basketball, baseball, track 42.   Habersham, McKinley (Junior); football basketball, track 43.   Latson, Marlin (Senior); football, basketball, track 44.   Washington, Earl (Senior); football basketball, track 45.   Wright, Deric (Senior); football, basketball, track
Savannah Christian	Bateman, Nick (Junior); football basketball, lacrosee Haeussler, Ben (Sophomore); football basketball,  baseball Mertz,  JT  (Junior); football, basketball, track Reese, Evan  (Freshman); football, basketball, track
Sav. Country Day	Ben Johnson (Senior);  football, basketball, soccer Demetrius Robertson (Sophomore); football, basketball, track
Savannah High	Anderson, Dustin (Freshman); football, basketball, baseball Newton ,Eric (Junior); football, basketball, baseball Norman, Jamal (Senior); football, basketball, track
St. Andrews	Chisner, Daniel (Junior); football basketball, track 56.   Hall, Michael (Junior); -football basketball, soccer Mayo, Nate (Junior); football basketball, baseball, track Morgan, J.D.  (Junior); football, basketball, track 59.   Shapard, Thomas (Junior); football basketball,  baseball
Windsor Forest	60.   Moore, Sherman (Junior); football basketball, soccer