Athletics
Gordon State College competes in the Georgia Junior College Athletic Association and the National Junior College Athletic Association. The college fields teams in men's and women's soccer, women's tennis, baseball, softball, men's and women's cross country, and men's and women's basketball. The school has club wrestling, which competes in the NCWA, and a club swim team.
There is a variety of intramural sports to participate in: soccer, kickball, basketball, flag football, volleyball, and softball.
Before the 1980s, the athletic teams at Gordon State were the Bulldogs. Through the mid-1980s, Gordon State's teams were known as the "Generals," a nod to General Gordon. Due to concern about Confederate symbolism, the teams are now called the Highlanders, to tie the Gordon name to a Scottish Highlands heritage.
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