The Mountain Lion Talk

Just four student-athletes in Young Harris College history have claimed individual conference titles. Cross country is the most successful with three individual champions. 2015 saw Nancy Murgor claim the women's crown and Matthew Biwott claim the men's title. The following year it was Abraham Asis  keeping the men's crown in the Enchanted Valley. Men's golf has the fourth individual conference champion as Peter Chung finished with the 2021 title.      

Note: athletics were restarted at Young Harris in the 2010-11 school year. Softball has been most successful since then as they've won 353 games, in addition to having the only two forty-win seasons across any sport at Young Harris. They've won at least twenty games in ten of twelve seasons since 2011  Second-most successful is baseball , as they've been the winning team 289 times since the restart of athletics in the Enchanted Valley. Counting their seven wins so far this season, the five-time conference champion men's soccer team is third-most successful as they've won 162 games since the 2010 season restarted their program. They have ten double-digit win seasons including nine straight from 2011 to 2019 and have won at least seventeen games four times, including their best single season record of nineteen wins, which was set in 2014.   

Volleyball Kallee McKinney tallied her sixtieth appearance on Friday against Georgia College- becoming the second in program history to reach that milestone- and currently sits at 61 games after Saturday's match against Lander *Kori Still remains on top for career games played with 62 appearances and counting  Joha Bernis and Lily Hidalgo each appeared in their fiftieth game against Lander on Saturday, joining McKinney, Kori Still and Alex Boydstone Women's Cross Country Chayil Aponte recorded her tenth appearance at the UNG meet on Saturday Latty Ryals is now three away from being one of at least six in women's cross-country history with twenty appearances- she tied Claire Warren with her seventeenth appearance on Saturday and can surpass her at the Peach Belt meet  *The current record is thirty meets, held by Nicole Smith (2012-15) 

Joha Bernis with 646  Kori Still with 297 Alex Boydstone with 230  Chase Vaigneur with 216  Lily Hidalgo with 207 

*Note: tennis dual matches don't include wins by default  Softball (also total appearances record): 244, held by Jill Torres  Baseball: 204, held by Jackson Jones  Men's Basketball: 110, held by CJ Wilson  Men's Soccer: 80, held by Lewis Hilton  Women's Tennis (dual matches): 75, held by Oriana Labaqui  Women's Lacrosse: 74, held by Hannah Sacristan  Men's Tennis (dual matches): 64, held by Alex Pavel  Women's Golf: 35, held by Christie Blaurock  Women's Cross Country: 30, held by Nicole Smith 

1. Kori Still is the first volleyballer in Young Harris history to appear in 60 games. She's one of four on the current roster to be holdovers from the 2020-21 team  2. Alex Boydstone appeared in her fifty-fifth game, adding on to her #3 mark in terms of career games played 3. Alex Pierre is now ninth on the career games played list, moving past Annie Messler with her thirty-first appearance 4. Shelby Mullins and Sophie Bearden have now each appeared in forty-five games 5. Mollie Lawrence continues her push for the first 500-assist season in Young Harris volleyball history. She already has the single season record with 469 and counting *The four on the current roster that have been on the team all three seasons are Still, Boydstone, Kallee McKinney and Jessica Beckner   

Record #1: Most Appearances   Several people from the 2011 and 2012 rosters have yet to be added in but here's the current top five, at least what I have right now: Nicole Smith with 30 meets Ciara Wood has competed in 28 meets Jessie Fortner is the current bronze medalist with 27 meets Allison Missler (24) and Dorie Brunzelle (20) round out the current top five Currently closest on the active roster is junior Latty Ryals , who's appeared 16 times. She's one of two, along with Chayil Aponte, who was on the 2019 roster and has remained on the team all four seasons.    

Record #1: Most tournament appearances (from 2014-15 onward) Christie Blaurock holds the current top spot with 35 appearances Currently in silver-medal position is Candler Kimsey with 34 tournaments Hannah Walker currently holds the bronze medal with 33 appearances Reece Brooks is currently fourth with 31 and there's a two-way tie for fifth, as Emma Andersson and Peyton Rich have each appeared in 29 tournaments *Note- I say currently because, while no one on this list is on the 2022-23 roster, I've yet to add in results from the 2013-14 season. Depending on appearances from that season, the bottom of the top five can have some new names added in. However, this is the list right now.  

Women's Basketball Mackenzie Johnson and Kalen Surles are both returning for the 2022-23 season, which will officially kick off November 11th. Johnson has the fourteenth-most points in team history with 520 through 64 games, while Surles has the second-most assists at 211 through 63 games. Both of them have an opportunity to move into the top fifteen for career games played. Olivia Tucker is also returning for her sophomore year after 24 appearances as a freshman and Magdalene Adebanjo is returning for her third season with 25 appearances under her belt.  *After nine appearances in her first season, she tallied sixteen with three starts in her second season.  Men's Tennis Mason Harmon made his Mountain Lion dual match debut against Emmanuel College in the season opener, with classmate Will Hernandez appearing in his first dual match in the second contest of the season against Lees-McRae.  Women's Tennis Catarina Marcko Ferreira competed in her fortieth dual match f...