During the last three football seasons, Wyatt Payne, a former Trinity star athlete and a son of Chad and Anne Payne, has spent most of the game week playing the Georgia Bulldogs as a member of Georgia's Scout Team. Membersof the Scout team play a major role by emulating the offensive and defensive play and styles of the upcoming opponents. All the while, the scout team players develop and improve their talents until such time as they are needed to replace injured teammates. Scout players can also adivse their teammates on the field of their opponents' tendencies. On many Saturdays, Wyatt stands on the sidelines cheering his team but still seeking his goal to play in the actual game.
Tonight as the Bulldogs take the field in the National Championship game in Atlanta against the Alabama Crimson Tide, Wyatt, a National Scholar Athlete, will be on the sidelines once again with the same dogged determination of Notre Dame's Rudy Ruettiger to get in the game, just once.
GO WYATT! GO DOGS!
Here is Wyatt's biography while he was a member of the Trinity Crusaders' teams from the latest University of Georgia media guide.
High School: Attended Trinity Christian School … Coached by Matt Hammett … Three-time Offensive MVP (football and basketball) ... Earned All-State honors in football, baseball and track and All-Region honors in those three plus basketball ... Member of GISA AAA All-Star Football Team ... Named Co-Offensive Player of the Year for All-Heart of Georgia Team ... Holds school record for most interceptions in a season and records for most passing/rushing yards for a quarterback in a season ... Surpassed 1,000 points in in basketball ... Member of AAA state runner-up baseball team and state champion team in track during his sophomore, junior and senior seasons ... Won 2015 GISA AAA state 200-meter dash title ... Lettered in football for four years, basketball, baseball and track for five years ... Honors graduate with GPA of 3.95 ... Earned Christian Leadership Award and the Christian Athlete of the Year honor ... National Scholar Athlete Award ... Trinity's Athlete of the Year twice.
Photos courtesy of Chad Payne.
Photos courtesy of Chad Payne.
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