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Athletics
Georgia School for the deaf has a varsity basketball team for both girls and boys, a football team and a volleyball team. The female and male varsity basketball teams at G.S.D compete in the Mason-Dixon Tournament yearly. In 2008 the G.S.D Lady Tigers won the Mason-Dixon Tournament, it was their first win since 1980. The G.S.D football team competes against other deaf and hearing schools. They use their hearing disadvantage to their benefit by using sign language in their huddles and mental rhythmic plays.

One widely recognized man around Georgia School for the Deaf, for basketball, is Willie Brown. His sophomore year he was 6'6 and averaged 28 points, 12 rebounds a game. He was voted the number one high school player in northeast Georgia. Brown holds the school record of 2,016 points over four years in basketball at Georgia School for the Deaf. After graduating from G.S.D, he pursued college basketball at Hofstra University in New York where he played alongside hearing teammates.

Requirements
To be eligible to get into G.S.D, students must be between the ages of 3 and 21, and have a audio-metric hearing loss of 55 dB or greater in the better ear. To live on campus students must be between the ages of 4 and 21. Students under the age of 4 are eligible for day school admission.