Major honor for Tech’s Rand Rowland
Georgia Tech forward Rand Rowland has been named to the Allstate NABC Good Works team for his service to the community. Tech is the only Division I school to have an athlete this year on the Good Works football and men’s basketball teams. Defensive end KeShun Freeman received the honor in the fall.
“Rand, I think, is the best person I’ve ever met in my entire life,” center Ben Lammers said, Rowland’s roommate.
Rowland, from White County High in north Georgia, walked on the team in 2013 and was placed on scholarship this semester. He has served on Tech’s student-athlete advisory board and helped start a peer-to-peer mentor program that matches upperclassman mentors with freshman athletes to help ease their transition to college.
He has also helped implement a workshop to educate incoming freshman athletes about relationship violence. He has also been involved with the athletic department’s annual toy drive, has volunteered at the Ronald McDonald House and teaches Sunday school.
About the Author
Ken Sugiura is a sports columnist at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Formerly the Georgia Tech beat reporter, Sugiura started at the AJC in 1998 and has covered a variety of beats, mostly within sports.
