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11/14/2016

Contact: Communications Director Chris Gay, 706.434.2475, 706-495-3507 (cell)

Update on Augusta Prep Golf Team

Martinez, Ga. – Earlier today, the Augusta Preparatory Day School golf team was involved in a bus accident en route to a match in Perry, Ga.

About 12:30 p.m., the accident took place south of Macon on Highway 49. Bus driver Shirley Orange, golf coach Chuck Mason and four student-athletes were involved in the accident.

The six of them were transported to Navicent Health in Macon. Head of School Peter Huestis is at the hospital with the families of the students-athletes, who are being released today, along with Orange. Mason remains in critical condition.

Please keep our beloved coach in your thoughts and prayers. We will provide updates as soon as additional news becomes available.

Regards,

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Peter B Huestis

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Augusta Preparatory Day School is a diverse, non-sectarian independent school focused on preparing students for excellence in all ways from as young as 3 years old in Pre-school to the 12th grade. The college preparatory school, located on a 55-acre campus in Martinez, Georgia, is in its 56th year and offers a tradition of providing strong academics through small class sizes with expert teachers, exemplary arts and athletics programs and a character-driven atmosphere featuring an honor code and community outreach efforts. The campus has a Lower School, Middle School, and Upper School, with an enrollment of approximately 560 students and a 100 percent college acceptance rate. Augusta Prep has achieved the high designation of a Cum Laude Society chapter honoring the scholastic achievement of students as well as being one of only 50 schools in the country and the only school in Georgia to be named a Malone Scholars school, a program that awarded Augusta Prep a $2 million grant that perpetually supports top-level students to receive scholarships.

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