February 1, 2020
By: Dwayne Page
The DCHS gymnasium has experienced several renovations and technology upgrades in recent months thanks in part to the financial support of the community and local businesses. The most recent donation came from the DeKalb Junior Pro Basketball Program.
On Friday DCHS Basketball Coaches John Sanders and Danny Fish thanked Matt Quarles, President of the Junior Pro League, for donating funds to purchase new wireless microphones to be used as part of the gym’s public address system.
“This is our way of helping give back to DeKalb County and the DCHS basketball program,” said Quarles.
“Its another upgrade to our facilities here and we really appreciate Mr. Quarles and the Junior Program League for helping us out,” said DCHS Tiger Coach Sanders.
DCHS Lady Tiger Coach Danny Fish said being able to use wireless microphones will be most helpful especially during coaching clinics and school events including pep rallies and academic awards nights.
“Matt and I had been talking for several months about us doing things with Junior Pro and our basketball program. We identified some things and what was the best bang for our buck and decided we needed some new wireless microphones. Junior Pro was able to help us with those needs and that cost and we received the new system about a week ago. We now have one hand held wireless microphone and a hands free head wrap around microphone which we can use anytime we want to do coaches clinics here in the gym which will make it easy for us to walk around and talk. It will not only serve the basketball program but the school as well. It will make it much more interactive for us where we are not having to constantly pull a microphone cord,” said Coach Fish.
“We are very grateful for the help of the DeKalb Junior Pro Basketball Program and others in the community who have helped us this year because we would not have been able to do all these gym renovations without the community. The dream of each kid that plays basketball in the community is to one day play on this floor and in this gym. We want to make the gym as up to date and modernized as possible,” added Coach Fish.