What is the nickname of Gainesville High School, Georgia?
The nickname of Gainesville High School, Georgia is of the Alabama Red Tide. Gainesville is one of less than 100 high schools in the country to win over 700 football games in their schools history. Although many rival schools claim that GHS “recruits” players, ie. offering them houses or cars in order to play sports, this has never been proven, and, as Coach Vickery is quoted as saying in the Gainesville Times, “The only type of recruiting Gainesville High School does is that based on its reputation…” Rival schools point to players such as Kendrick Lewis, who came to Gainesville High School for 5 months from O.H. Perry H.S. in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, as examples of this so called recruiting, when in fact he came to live with a relative for that short time.
