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ATHENS, Ga. --- Georgia junior linebacker Jalon Walker has been tapped as the Chuck Bednarik Award Player of the Week following the Bulldogs' 30-15 win at No. 1 Texas, according to a Maxwell Football Club announcement Tuesday. Walker, a native of Salisbury, N.C., earned Bednarik Player of the Week honors after a historic performance in a huge Southeastern Conference matchup against the Longhorns.  Walker recorded seven tackles, three sacks and a fumble recovery, all in the first half of the game.  His performance was especially remarkable as he became the first player in the last 20 years to register three sacks and seven tackles in a game against the AP No. 1 team.

ATHENS, Ga. --- Bulldog head coach Kirby Smart has been named the Bear Bryant Awards Coach of the Week following Georgia's 30-15 rout of No. 1 Texas in Austin, according to an announcement from the American Heart Association and presented by Accenture Tuesday. Smart, whose UGA teams are now 3-1 versus top-ranked opposition, collected his 100th career win after holding the Longhorns to just 259 yards of total offense, including only 29 on the ground on 27 carries.

ATHENS, Ga. --- After being included on the Ray Guy Award's Ray's 8 earlier this week, junior punter Brett Thorson has now been named the Punter of the Week, according to an announcement from the Augusta Sports Council and award Tuesday. Thorson, a native of Melbourne, Australia, punted four times for an average of 54 yards (season long of 58 yarder), including two inside the 20 and only one touchback, during the 30-15 rout of No. 1 Texas in Austin. His first punt went out of bounds at the Texas 13 and his second one went to the Texas 10 with a minus-3-yard return.  In fact, the Bulldogs are tied for the national lead in Punt Return Defense, allowing an average of minus-3 yards per game. Thorson's net punting average against the Longhorns was 50.3 thanks in part to three that sailed past the 50-yard mark.  The Bulldogs are ranked fourth nationally in Net Punting at 45.1.

ATHENS, Ga. --- Bulldog junior linebacker Jalon Walker has been included as one of 20 semifinalists for the eighth annual Jason Witten Collegiate Man of the Year Award, according to an announcement Tuesday. Walker, a native of Salisbury, N.C., is one of six semifinalists from the Southeastern Conference.  He was picked because of his demonstration of leadership by exhibiting exceptional courage, integrity and sportsmanship both on and off the field. Walker has played in all 36 games since the 2022 season and has five starts this year, helping the No. 2 Bulldogs compile a 34-2 record over that three-year stretch including the 2022 national championship. He made the Athletic Director's Honor Roll (3.0 or higher term GPA) in Spring '22 and Spring '24. Walker is a member of the SEC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the NCAA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. In addition, he was selected for the second year in a row to be one of four SEC student-athlete voices in the Just Means More SEC ads. Off the field, he regularly goes to local schools and reads to children, among many other community service activities.

ATHENS, Ga. – For their performances against Florida State last Saturday, University of Georgia redshirt senior Luca Urlando, junior Ieva Maluka, and freshmen Elliot Woodburn and Samantha Rydzewski received Southeastern Conference weekly swimming honors Tuesday afternoon, as announced by the league office. Urlando posted another A-cut time of 1:39.03 in the 200y butterfly, followed by winning B-cut times of 1:39.39 in the 200y backstroke and 1:43.49 in the 200y IM. Maluka, the transfer from Riga, Latvia touched first in the 200y freestyle with a time of 1:45.02, followed by victorious B-cuts in the 200y butterfly (1:56.32) and 200y IM (1:56.64). She then concluded the meet by anchoring the first-place 400y freestyle relay with a split of 49.06, the fastest anchor leg of all swimmers. Woodburn earned his first wins as a Bulldog, finishing first in the 100y breaststroke with a time of 53.76 and besting the competition by a half-second. The Kendal, England native also finished second in the 200y breaststroke and helped the 200y medley relay win its event, posting the fastest 50y breaststroke split of all swimmers. Rydzewski also picked up her first collegiate win, taking the 200y backstroke with a time of 1:56.94. The Holly Springs, North Carolina native also placed third in the 100y backstroke with a time of 54.75.

HILTON HEAD, S.C. — Two Bulldogs in Dasha Vidmanova and Anastasiia Lopata are set to represent the Georgia women's tennis team in the ITF Hilton Head W35 tournament main draw starting on Wednesday.Vidmanova will be competing in her third ITF competition this fall, most recently playing her way to the semifinals in Macon. She will face Ishika Ashar in the main draw first round. #13 Lppata enters her fourth ITF event of the fall, coming off her best run after reaching the semifinals at the Edmond W75. She will take on Eszter Meri in the main draw first round.

Georgia, now ranked 33rd in the NCAA RPI rankings, faces No. 13 Auburn in its SEC road finale, looking to tie the Tigers in the SEC standings. Thursday's match also marks Georgia's fifth ranked matchup of the year - the Bulldogs are 0-2-2 this season with ties against then-No. 7 Pitt and then-No. 1 Florida State. Georgia has not defeated an opponent in a true road match since beating then-No. 5 LSU in overtime in Baton Rouge in 2021. Georgia closes out the regular season against Texas on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 4 p.m. EDT at the Turner Soccer Complex.

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ATLANTA — A strong run through four days of competition came to an end as Aysegul Mert and Guillermina Grant fell in the ITA Southeast Regional Championships doubles final at the Ken Byers Tennis Complex on Tuesday. Coming off the doubles final loss against Florida's Rachel Gailis and Alicia Dudeney. #94 Mert rounded out the competition in the 3rd/4th playoff match, cruising to a 6-4, 6-1 victory over FAU's Victoria Gomez O'Hayon.

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Southeastern Conference on Tuesday announced its 2024 SEC Football Legends class presented by T-Mobile, an assemblage of former football standouts who will be honored at events surrounding the SEC Football Championship Game in Atlanta in December. Terrence Edwards led Georgia in receiving for four consecutive seasons from 1999-2002, starting with an All-SEC Freshman campaign that ranks third in school history with 53 catches. He remains the only Bulldog to have a 1,000-yard season after catching passes for 1,004 in 2002 to earn All-SEC First Team honors as a senior. He also caught 11 touchdown passes his senior season. Edwards finished his career with school records in career receptions (204, No. 10 in SEC history), career receiving yards (3,093, No. 4 in SEC history after initially being a conference record that stood for 11 years) and career receiving touchdowns (30, No. 4 in SEC history). After going undrafted in the 2003 NFL Draft, he signed with the Atlanta Falcons. He spent 11 years in the NFL and CFL, becoming a standout in Canada. He played for the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Montreal Alouettes, and he was a five-time CFL All-Star and inducted into the Blue Bombers Hall of Fame in 2017. Edwards graduated with a degree from the University of Georgia in Housing in 2012 and was inducted into the Georgia/Florida Hall of Fame. He is the younger brother of Robert Edwards, a former first round pick of the New England Patriots and also a CFL veteran with Toronto and Montreal.

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