The graduating class of 2025 has been around for quite a few of Georgia Athletics’ proudest moments. Here is a look at some of the greatest moments from Georgia Bulldogs sports over the past four years.
Football finally gets it done, twice
Georgia Football head coach Kirby Smart kisses the College Football Playoff National Championship trophy on Jan. 10, 2022 after the Bulldogs won the title. (Photo/ Kathryn Skeean, kskeean@randb.com)
Football has always reigned supreme at Georgia, and so the cries over Georgia’s 41-year-long championship drought only grew louder as it got further from 1980. Finally, the Bulldogs won the national championship after Kelee Ringo’s pick six sealed the deal over Alabama in Georgia’s 33-18 win to cap off the 2021 College Football Playoff. Kirby Smart had officially brought a national title home to his alma mater. The cathartic win only got sweeter the following season after Georgia returned to the mountaintop and demolished TCU 65-7 in 2022’s title game. For a town like Athens where football is king, back-to-back football championships are about as good as it gets.
Simone Biles in the Classic City
Olympian Simone Biles poses with the Georgia gymnastics team during the UGA vs. Boise State gymnastics meet at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Georgia, on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. Georgia won 196.825-193.600. (Photo/Laney Martin: @LaneyMartinPhotography)
LANEY MARTIN
Simone Biles, one of the greatest athletes of all time, made an appearance in Athens in 2025 at Georgia’s Jan. 17 home-opening gymnastics meet against Boise State. Co-head coach Cécile Canqueteau-Landi is a longtime coach of Biles, and the 11-time Olympic medalist came to support her coach in her first home meet for the Bulldogs. Georgia defeated Boise State 196.825-193.600 with Biles in attendance.
Tennis picks up some hardware
Georgia tennis player Aysegul Mert, Georgia tennis player Guillermina Grant during Georgia’s match during the 2024 ITA Sectionals at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex in Athens, Ga., on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024. (Ethan Levine/UGAAA)
Georgia’s tennis program has long been one of the school’s most decorated. In May 2023, Georgia tennis player Ethan Quinn won the NCAA singles championship. He became just the third Bulldog in history to bring home the individual title and turned pro shortly after. Georgia’s women’s tennis team was also busy in the last four years, winning its seventh national championship at the ITA National Team Indoor Championship final in February 2025. The team is aiming to cap off its season with an NCAA championship in mid-May.
Basketball goes dancing
Scenes Georgia center Somtochukwu “Somto” Cyril (6) and Georgia guard Tyrin Lawrence (7) hug after a men’s NCAA basketball game against Florida at Stegeman Coliseum in Athens, Georgia, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. Georgia won 88-83. (Photo/Mady Mertens; @madymertensphotography)
MADY_MERTENS
A day some Georgia fans never thought would come happened this past March when the Georgia men’s basketball team qualified for its first NCAA tournament berth since 2015. Now, the game itself didn’t exactly go swimmingly for Georgia, as the team was swiftly crushed by Gonzaga 89-68 after a disastrous start to the game left them trailing 30-5. Nevertheless, it was a critical step forward for a program that has seen numerous rebuild attempts in recent years. Georgia’s 12-1 start to the season in 2024-25 was its best since 1930. Also, in 2022, Georgia’s women’s basketball team advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament before losing to the Caitlin Clark-led Iowa Hawkeyes.
Baseball advances to Super Regional
Georgia senior Corey Collins (6) celebrates home run with redshirt sophomore Charlie Condon (24) during game four of the NCAA Athens Regional between UNCW and Georgia at Foley Field in Athens, Georgia, on Saturday, June 1, 2024. Georgia won 11-2. (Photo/Mady Mertens; MadyMertensPhotography)
MADY_MERTENS
Georgia baseball had one of its best years in program history in 2024, finishing 43-17 in head coach Wes Johnson’s first year leading the team. Charlie Condon won the Dick Howser Trophy, awarded to the best player in college baseball, after hitting .410 and mashing 62 home runs in the season. Corey Collins was also an All-American. The team advanced to the Athens Super Regional for the first time since 2008 after losing the last five regionals that it played in. The Bulldogs nearly reached their first College World Series since 2008, but were eliminated by NC State. Though Condon and Collins have since moved on to the pros, Georgia reloaded with talent and is in pursuit of a deeper run this season.
Equestrian brings another title to Athens
Georgia rider Catalina Peralta during Georgia’s meet against South Carolina at the UGA Equestrian Complex in Bishop, Ga., on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025. (Courtesy/Sofia Yaker/UGAAA)
Football wasn’t Georgia’s only national champion. The equestrian team won the 2025 national title, the program’s first since 2021 and eighth overall. Kennedy Buchanan and Catalina Peralta both received dual discipline selections, headlining the 11 Bulldogs receiving honors after the victory. The win came on the heels of head coach Meghan Boenig’s induction into the National Collegiate Equestrian Association Hall of Fame.