Coach Turco is a 1998 graduate of Pope High school. Upon graduation from Pope, Coach Turco accepted a baseball scholarship to Presbyterian College. After capping an all conference career, Coach Turco was retained as a coach of the 2002-2003 Presbyterian College baseball team.

In his lone year assisting with the “PC” squad, Coach Turco helped to capture the South Atlantic Conference Championship as well as help lead the team to their second ever NCAA tournament berth.

Coach Turco began his teaching career at Pope High School in 2003 where he returned to his alma mater to teach in the social studies department.

2012 will mark the 6th year of Turco’s head coaching career with the Pope Fastpitch program. In Turco’s 5 years with the Pope fastpitch program, he has led Pope to their only GHSA state tournament appearances in 2006, 2010, and 2011, posting new school records for wins each season with 13,19, and 25 respectively. Turco has led the Greyhounds to 78 wins in his 5 year career.

The 2011 season was an especially exciting season for the Greyhounds as they earned the region 5-AAAA northern sub-region championship and finished region runner up, the highest region finish in Pope History. By finishing 2nd in the region, Pope was able to host a GHSA tournament series at Pope for the first time ever beating Dunwoody High School and advancing to the 2nd round of the state tournament which was also a first for Pope. Pope finished 1 game shy of the state finals in Columbus solidifying 3 postseason victories for Pope in 2011 and 4 playoff victories overall in program history with the other playoff victory coming in 2010 against Creekview.

Turco has coached multiple All region and All county players in his 5 years at the helm of the program as well as 3 All State players with Jennifer Miller being named 2nd team all State in 2006, Natalie Lampert being named All State honorable mention in 2010, and Laura Beall who was named 2nd team for her efforts in 2011. Coach Turco has also had the pleasure of seeing 8 of his players go on to play collegiately.

Coach Turco is also an assistant with the baseball program at Pope where he has helped lead the baseball program to 4 state tournament appearances and two region championships in 2009 and 2011. The highlight of Turco’s baseball career is the 2009 season in which Pope Baseball capped a region championship season and AAAAA state championship season with a #10 national ranking in Baseball America. In 2007, Turco was named GHSA AAAAA assistant baseball coach of the year. Turco has also had the pleasure of coaching 5 Pope players who have been selected in the MLB amateur player draft.

Coach Turco resides in Woodstock Georgia and is married to Niki Turco.

Hailing from Cleveland Ohio, Coach Savransky was a multi-sport high school athlete who capped his prep career by accepting a wrestling scholarship to the University of Toledo. After placing in the MAC conference wrestling tournament his freshman year, Coach Savransky moved on to an athletics career at Ohio State University for the remainder of his collegiate years.

Coach Savransky has a long and distinguished coaching career that has taken him to both Pebblebrook High School and East Cobb Baseball prior to arriving at Pope. In 2004, Coach Savransky was named East Cobb Baseball “Coach of the year”, which is the highest award a coach in that organization can be granted.

The 2011-2012 school years will mark Coach Savransky’s 8th at Pope High School. During Coach Savransky’s tenure at Pope he has created quite an impressive coaching legacy.

Coach Savransky has led the junior varsity Pope Baseball team to 3 consecutive region championships (2008, 2009, 2010), and also assisted the 2009 varsity Pope baseball team to the region 6-AAAAA championship and AAAAA baseball state championship. Coach Savransky has also assisted in leading the 2011 baseball team to the region 5-AAAA championship and state quarterfinals.

Coach Savransky has made quite an impact on the mat as well helping to lead the Pope Varsity wrestlers to 3 consecutive region 6-AAAAA championships and 3 consecutive runner up finishes in the GHSA AAAAA wrestling tourney (2008-2010). In 2011, Coach Savransky assisted the Pope wrestling team to the Region 5-AAAA, championship as well as the 2011 AAAA State Duals championship, the first state championship in Pope Wrestling history.

The 2011 season will mark the third in which Coach Savransky’s has assisted the Pope fastpitch program. In his past two seasons with Pope fastpitch, Coach Savransky has helped lead the program into the state tournament in 2006 and 2010.

In January of 2011, Coach Savransky was awarded the State of Georgia Fastpitch Softball Assistant coach of the year award for his efforts with the Pope fastpitch program for the 2010 season.

Coach Savransky teaches computer applications, electronics, and computer repair at Pope High School. Coach Savransky resides in Marietta Georgia and is father to Michael and Ally Savransky.

Jennifer Miller is a 2007 graduate of Pope High School who returns to her alma mater this season to head the JV team as well as assist with the varsity team and serve as the programs pitching coach.

Jennifer’s record setting prep career made her the record holder in multiple categories, many of which Jennifer still holds Pope records for today. Pope records still held by Jennifer are single season and career wins, single season and career strikeouts, single season and career ERA, single season innings pitched, opponent average, strikeouts per game, games started, and sacrifice hits. Jennifer tossed two no hitters while at Pope, the second coming against Kell High School in the region tournament to power the Greyhounds to their first state tournament appearance ever. During Jennifer’s senior season she also went through a red hot streak of 31 1/3 consecutive innings without surrendering a run. Jennifer’s accomplishments during her senior year ultimately led her to becoming the first Pope player ever named to the All-State team garnering 2nd team honors for her efforts in 2006.

Upon graduation from Pope, Jennifer accepted a softball scholarship to play for Melissa Mullins at Augusta State University in Augusta Georgia. As a Jaguar, Jennifer had 37 appearances in the circle tossing 7 complete games (2 of which were shutouts) and racking up 12 wins and 2 saves while holding hitters to a paltry .221 average against. In 2009, Jennifer’s Augusta state team qualified for the NCAA tournament for only the 2nd time at that point in Augusta State history eventually falling to # 1 ranked North Georgia College (finished the season ranked 3rd) in the regional championship game.

Jennifer brings a wealth of experience to the Greyhound coaching staff as she also serves as a pitching and hitting instructor at Champions Fastpitch Academy in Marietta, Ga.