2019-20 Georgia Tech Everyday Champions Issue #3

SPRING 2 0 2 0 I N T H I S I S S U E

SPRING 2020 • VOLUME 13, NUMBER 3

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Mike Stamus mstamus@athletics.gatech.edu ASSOCIATE EDITORS Eric Burgher Andrew Clausen Mike Flynn Liz Ryan WRITERS/CONTRIBUTORS Jennifer Brazelton Jon Cooper Lance Markos Matt Winkeljohn Adam Van Brimmer PHOTOGRAPHY Sara D. Davis/ACC David Johnson Danny Karnik NCAA

4 | CAIO’S TIME

Junior swimmer Caio Pumputis won’t stop until he fulfills his destiny

12 | CENTER OF ATTENTION 16 | ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY

Big on the basketball court, and big in life, James Banks’ basketball journey is just beginning

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The positive approach of head coach Nell Fortner and her staff has made all the difference for Georgia Tech women’s basketball

20| BIG B LIVES ON

Late Tech defensive lineman’s memory is carried in the efforts of many other Yellow Jacket student-athletes

24| EVERYDAY CHAMPION

Tech football great Derrick Morgan finds new purpose in business world

27 | AROUND THE FLATS

Georgia Tech completes historic recruiting class in football

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28 | ALEXANDER-THARPE FUND

Georgia Tech has raised nearly $120 million of its $125 million goal for AI2020 with nine months remaining

29 | ALEXANDER-THARPE FUND Bergmarks endow swimming and diving head coach position; Zelnaks make lead commitment to O’Keefe renovation 31 | COMPLIANCE CORNER A primer on Name, Image and Likeness (NIL)

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