This Cache
Bonus!! Cache is NOT at the posted coordinates!
This cache is available 24/7. Please use stealth when finding. The difficulty rating of this cache is based on finding the 12 requisite caches and unscrambling the phrase. The actual hide is a 1.5D.
To find this cache
This is the Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure BONUS cache! To find the coordinates, you will need to find numbers 1-12 in the series (A full list of the caches is at the bottom of this cache page). When you use Certitude to get the location of each of the 12 multicaches, you will be given a letter. Collect all 12 letters and unscramble them to create a phrase. Enter that unscrambled phrase in the geochecker below to learn the location of the bonus cache!
You can enter your solution with the Certitude checker below!
Pro Tip! If you are signed into Certitude, you will see an option on the right-hand side of the page to update the coordinates and note. If you click the "Update Note" button, it will add the corrected coords and codeword information for you automatically!
The Series
The Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure series is a group of 12, 2-stage multicaches set up to highlight sports in Athens. Of course, when we talk about sports in Athens, we are talking about the University of Georgia (UGA)! The series is the work of poeanne, Pitty Pat, and GeoMonkeyTiger!.
Each multicache will feature a particular sport at UGA. The first stage of each multicache will take you someplace important to that sport. You will need to observe the area to answer the question posed on the cache page. Enter your answer into Certitude. Your reward for the correct answer will be the coordinates to the final as well as 1/12th of the code you will need to enter to unlock the bonus cache!
The finals for this series are a short distance away and fairly close together. It may make sense to gather the stage 1 requirements for all the caches in the series before heading to the stage 2 locations.
There is some information about each sport on its corresponding cache page.
The entire series can be completed in a couple of hours. Each cache features a virtual stage 1 and a physical find at stage 2.
Sports at the University of Georgia!
Sporting programs at the University of Georgia began almost 150 years ago, founded and even directed by students themselves. The evolution of athletics at UGA has traveled a great distance in that multi-generational span. Today, the Athletic Association strives to fulfill many roles, most notably: to field nationally competitive teams in 21 sports; to provide wide-ranging educational opportunities to its student-athletes; to enhance the national and international profile of the University; and to serve as a source of pride, a rallying point, for the legions of supporters that follow its teams.
Before 1972, sporting opportunities for women on campus were confined to intramurals and a few club teams. The enactment of the Title IX of the Education Amendments that year, however, brought vast and sweeping change to the landscape of college athletics.
Georgia very slowly began its efforts to comply with Title IX. It took six years after its enactment before UGA awarded a scholarship to a female student-athlete. Behind the leadership of Liz Murphey - Georgia's first women's athletics administrator - and the support of athletic director Vince Dooley, Georgia emerged as a national leader for women in college athletics. Beginning in the early Eighties and continuing today, UGA has built an exemplary record of opportunity and success with its women's teams.
Murphey took a $15,000 grant from the Athletic Association in 1972 and founded six women's teams the next year, though some did not fully compete until later: basketball, golf, gymnastics, swimming, tennis and volleyball. Track & field was added in 1980. Amazingly, five of those seven sports have since won at least one national team championship. Three of them, led by the gymnastics team's dynastic total of 10, have captured multiple national team titles.
The Athletic Association continues to increase its opportunities for female student-athletes, having added three more latter-day sports: soccer in 1995, softball in 1997 and most recently, equestrian in 2003.
Particularly in the past quarter-century, athletic teams at UGA have succeeded at an astounding rate. Indeed, NCAA championships have become almost an annual occurrence among Bulldog teams. The men's tennis team of coach Dan Magill captured the school's first-ever NCAA team title in 1985, and since then 25 other teams have followed suit. Under the direction of coach Suzanne Yoculan, the gymnastics program has won 10 NCAA championships, including the last five of her 26-year tenure that ended in 2009.
In all, UGA's athletic teams have won 38 national team championships, beginning with the football program's crown in 1942. Additionally, Georgia student-athletes have won a total of 171 national individual titles, starting with back-to-back wins in 1936-37 by Forrest "Spec" Towns in the 120-yard hurdles. On a regional scale, UGA teams have won 143 Southeastern Conference team titles.
The national success of UGA teams is reflected in the Director's Cup, a relatively new competition that measures a school's overall performance in a given year. Using a scoring system that awards points according to a team's national finish, Georgia has fared exceedingly well in all 19 years of Director's Cup standings. Bulldog teams, in fact, have top-20 finishes in each of the past 15 years, including top-5 showings on three occasions: 1999 (2nd), 2001 (3rd) and 2004 (5th
The Rest of the Caches...
For your convenience, here is a full list of caches in the series:
01- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! 🏈
02- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! 🎾
03- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! 🤸♀️
04- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! 🏌️♀
05- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! ⚽
06- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! ⚾
07- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! 🏊♀️
08- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! 🥎
09- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! 🏆
10- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! 🎺
11- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! 🏀
12- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure! 🏃♀️
13- Athens Awesome Athletic Multi Adventure BONUS!