THE FLATS – Georgia Tech athletics recognized the achievements of its student-athletes over the past year during its annual Yellow Jacket Celebration on Monday evening at McCamish Pavilion.
Haynes King and Talayah Walker headlined the honorees, earning GTAA Athletes of the Year for their outstanding successes during the 2025-26 campaigns.
Named the ACC Player of the Year and ACC Offensive Player of the Year, King recorded one of the most successful seasons on The Flats and finished the season 10th in voting for the Heisman Trophy. An honorable mention all-American, King won the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award as the nation’s best offensive player with ties to the state of Texas. He also was a finalist for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award (national QB of the year) and semifinalist for the Davey O’Brien (QB) and Maxwell (national player of the year) awards. King was a three-time National Player of the Week and five-time ACC Quarterback of the Week and set the Georgia Tech single-season record with 3,920 yards of total offense in 12 games.
Walker capped her first season on The Flats as a 2026 All-ACC first team selection for women’s basketball. She recorded the most 30-point games by a Yellow Jacket since 1995 and was one of just three players in the Atlantic Coast Conference to have at least three 30-point outings. Walker tallied 13 20-point games – the most by a Yellow Jacket in the last decade – and picked averaged 19.3 points per game in league play to rank third in scoring in the conference. On Jan. 5, after Tech defeated No. 18 Notre Dame with the help of Walker’s 33-point, 10-rebound performance, the sophomore earned ACC Player of the Week and AP Honorable Mention Player of the Week.
The full list of awards handed out at the Yellow Jacket Celebration include:
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Volleyball’s Anna Fiedorowicz (AVCA Southeast Region honorable mention), ranked second on the team in kills (268) and aces (22), and third for digs (159), earned ACC Freshman of the Week honors (11/17), tallied 17 double-digit kill matches and led the team in double-double performances with five
Football’s Jordan Allen (caught 22 passes for 304 yards in 10 games, 21 of his 22 receptions came in the second half of the season, gained 78 yards on first reception of his career vs. Gardner-Webb, had 1 of Georgia Tech’s 3 100-yard receiving games of the season)
BRANDON ADAMS TEAMMATE AWARDS
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