The sponsorship includes Coaches' Corners, a TV partnership with Georgia Public Television (GPTV) and sponsorship of Prep Sports+, a weekly high school sports show.

Coaches' Corner provides a place for coaches to relax, refresh and find out more about the EMCs' sponsorship of their event. Coaches' Corners will be held at football, softball, cross-country, cheerleading, basketball and track championships.

The GPTV partnership makes possible live TV broadcasts of football semi-finals and finals in December 2003 and boys' and girls' basketball finals in March 2004.

Prep Sports+ is a 30-minute show on high school athletics that airs on Friday evenings, Saturday mornings and Saturday evenings.

"Walton EMC is proud to be part of this program because support of the GHSA reinforces our cooperative's commitment to the community," said Walton EMC President/CEO Ronnie Lee. "These students are our future. It's important to us that we do our part to develop Georgia's up-and-coming leaders."

2003-2004 marks the fifth year of EMC support for the GHSA championships.

Through their statewide network, Georgia's EMCs provide electricity and related services to 3.9 million people, nearly half of Georgia's population, across 73 percent of the state's land area. Georgia's EMC network is the nation's largest.

Established in 1936, Walton EMC is a consumer-owned electric cooperative with 110,000 accounts in ten Northeast Georgia counties between Atlanta and Athens.

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