Chip Saye

1 week ago | ajc.com | Chip Saye

The spring playoff season, the busiest time on the GHSA athletic calendar each academic year, gets under way this week when playoffs begin in one sport and a team champion will be crowned in another. Esports will get things started Monday with playoffs that will determine the teams that will compete for championships at the end of the next week. In slow-pitch softball, a champion will emerge from the 16-team, double-elimination state tournament that will be played this week in Woodstock.

3 weeks ago | ajc.com | Chip Saye

Holy Innocents’ Hailee Swain and Caleb Wilson were in the starting lineups Tuesday night at the McDonald’s All-American Games, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s all-classification players of the year came away with one victory and one loss at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.Swain, a 5-foot-11 point guard committed to Stanford, led the East girls team with 13 points in a 104-82 loss. The East fell behind 18-0 at the start, trailed 31-14 after the first quarter, and never recovered.

3 weeks ago | ajc.com | Chip Saye

GIRLS PLAYER OF THE YEARHoly Innocents’ girls basketball coach Nichole Dixon still has the video of Hailee Swain, then a fifth-grader, struggling to make a layup during one of her first workouts with the program seven years ago. Dixon kept it, she said, because she felt like she was watching something special. “I remember one day in the gym with her vividly,” Dixon said. “She was working on driving and shooting a left-handed layup and couldn’t make the layup.

3 weeks ago | ajc.com | Chip Saye

Holy Innocents’ Hailee Swain and Caleb Wilson, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s girls and boys all-classification basketball state players of the year, will be Georgia’s representatives in the McDonald’s All-American Games, to be played Tuesday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.This will be the 12th time since the inaugural McDonald’s girls game in 2002 that a school has had a boys and girls representative in the same year.

4 weeks ago | ajc.com | Chip Saye

Holy Innocents’ girls basketball coach Nichole Dixon still has the video of Hailee Swain, then a fifth-grader, struggling to make a layup during one of her first workouts with the program seven years ago. Dixon kept it, she said, because she felt like she was watching something special. “I remember one day in the gym with her vividly,” Dixon said. “She was working on driving and shooting a left-handed layup and couldn’t make the layup.