Gainesville, Cumming athletes make cut for USA TODAY HSSA Gymnast of the Year

Katie Andrews of Cumming and Katelynn Tatum of Gainesville are on the inaugural watch list for 2023-24 USA TODAY HSSA (High School Sports Awards) Gymnast of the Year. Andrews attends Forsyth Central High School and Tatum goes to East Forsyth.)

This list includes 50 current student-athletes who meet the nomination criteria for this year’s national Gymnast of the Year award. The winner will be announced in the spring.

They were either nominees last year or were seriously considered based on season-wide performance, state championships and any other state, regional and/or national recognition.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.