Our Team

Read the story of Bulldawg Illustrated as told by Murray Poole.

Al Hickson

'Gruff and Grump' Columnist

Al Hickson and Chad White feel that by the nature of their column as armchair quarterbacks, they are everyman’s bulldog fan and should remain an enigma.
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Alex McWhorter

Student Intern

As Alex McWhorter was graduating Carrollton High School in 2007, his list of potential universities was quite short. Growing up a Dawg fan, no other school could match the reverence he held for UGA. After his sister enrolled in 2004, multiple trip...
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Andrew Miller

Director of Public Relations/Sales Associate

Andrew Miller was a young boy growing up in Hawaii surely dreaming of a SEC team like the University of Georgia Bulldogs. He made it to the southeast and was a 1992 graduate of Norcross High School. Andrew went on to graduate in 1997 from the este...
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Austin Keeble

Sales and Marketing Associate

Austin Keeble’s father, John B. Keeble of Atlanta, had no idea what he was getting himself into when he approached Elizabeth Stewart on the first day of classes in 1976. Although a UGA fan in his own right, John came to understand true football f...
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Brandy Chandler

Fashion Columnist

A native to Athens, Brandy Chandler opened her Milledge Avenue boutique, blonde., due to her lifelong love of all things fashion. All it took for her to begin falling in love with the fashion industry was a childhood “school clothes” s...
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Carlton DeVooght

'Recruiting News' Columnist

Carlton DeVooght is Vice President, General Counsel and Governmental Affairs Liason for Southeast Georgia Health System. Prior to coming in-house with the Health System, DeVooght was a partner with the law firm of Gilbert, Harrell, Sumerford &...
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Chad White

'Gruff and Grump' Columnist

Al Hickson and Chad White feel that by the nature of their column as armchair quarterbacks, they are everyman’s bulldog fan and should remain an enigma.
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Chelsea Lipocky

Student Intern

With both parents graduating from the University of Georgia, it wasn’t a hard choice for Chelsea Lipocky to follow in their footsteps. Growing up hearing about the days of Herschel Walker and Dominique Wilkins was all the motivation she needed. ...
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Cheri Harden Leavy

Editorial/Advertising Director

Cheri Harden Leavy loves to travel hither and yon but her roots are in the south as she has lived three places in her life: Brunswick and the Golden Isles, Athens and Oxford, Mississippi. Her journey is this: born in Brunswick, a pre-schooler in A...
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Chris Lee

Tech Support

Chris Lee was born in Statesboro in 1979 and was promptly moved to the Golden Isles with his parents one year later. Growing up in Brunswick, he developed a love for cartooning and design. His dad worked as the systems/IT manager for Georgia Pacif...
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Hannah James

Sales and Marketing Intern

Hannah James knew that a family full of bulldog enthusiasts would never settle for anything but her spending the four years of college in Athens, and she knew the day she visited the campus for the first time she wouldn’t either. She came here in ...
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Holly Stanfill

Sales Associate

Most every business owner in Athens has met Holly Stanfill at some point. She has likely helped them with their marketing in some capacity during her 19 years of advertising experience in print, radio, billboard and television. Holly grew up in ...
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Jan Leavy Bone

'Itty Bitty Bulldogs' Columnist

Jan Leavy Bone is a native of St. Simons Island. She graduated from Glynn Academy in 1985 and then onward she went to UGA. She pledged Kappa Kappa Gamma and found the Kappa Sigma house and herself! She was a Kappa Sigma little sister where she met...
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Jeff Dantzler

Sports Editor

It didn’t take Jeff Dantzler long to discover that he would not be the next Herschel Walker. Or Dominique Wilkins. Or Mikael Pernfors. That’s when he decided he wanted to be the next Dan Magill and Larry Munson. Well, no one will ever ...
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Kelley Blanton

Sales Associate

Kelley Blanton is a Bulldawg born and bred. She was born and raised in Athens, Ga and only left for her college years. She graduated from Cedar Shoals Highschool. She jokes that her college years encompassed eight wonderful years culminating at ...
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Mary Boyce Hicks

Student Intern

Perhaps it was the competition from her purple-and-gold-team-that-shall-not-be-named fan of a father, or the adoration and emulation of an older sister devoted to the Dawgs. Either way, the minute Mary Boyce walked onto the campus of UGA in the fa...
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Michael Santos

Sales Associate

For over a decade, Michael has enjoyed everything Athens and anything Georgia football. A strong proponent of the social virtues of Fall in the Classic City, Michael has made a minor career of tailgating, North Campus strolling, and cheering for t...
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Murray Poole

Sports Writer

Murray Poole served as sports editor and senior sports editor of The Brunswick News for 40 years and four months. The running joke is that he is the happiest sports writer ever now because he doesn’t have to be fair and cover Georgia Tech wi...
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Reg Murphy

'On Par' Golf Columnist

Reg Murphy, a native of Gainesville, has held significant positions in both United States and International golf, which makes him such an asset to Bulldawg Illustrated as a golf columnist. He was General Chairman of the U. S. Women's Open in 19...
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Rob Sherrell

'One on One' Player Columnist

When you ask this gravelly voiced dawg fan when he graduated from the University of Georgia, he answers, “I think in ‘91 or ‘92.” And then he is off to the next topic. He is fast paced and fun and there is never a dull mome...
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Ryan Scates

Editor of BI Athens

A lifelong Cobb Countian, Ryan Scates hails from Kennesaw, Georgia and is a first-generation Bulldawg. Scates is no newcomer to SEC football, however, as he was raised a devout follower of Tennessee athletics and attributes his earliest memory to ...
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Vance Leavy

Editor

Champ “Vance” Leavy is another generation of Leavys who love Georgia football (sometimes a little too much). His grandfather Howard is rumored to have sent a feisty telegraph to Coach Dooley after a loss in the 60s. His father Howard i...
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