DECATUR TOWNSHIP — Two Decatur Township elementary school teachers turned a hobby into a vision, and that vision is becoming a reality.
Evan Sullivan and Ryan Gammons, both teachers at Blue Academy Elementary, picked up disc golf as a hobby. Throughout 2020, they started playing at courses around the area, as well as entering a few amateur events.
As they started to play at more courses, they realized the area around their school did not have a disc golf course.
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Over Thanksgiving and Christmas break in 2020, they began to research how to start a course for the school. Coincidentally, the school district owns land behind the school building, so they wrote up a proposal and submitted it to the MSD of Decatur Township Superintendent. It contained an 18-hole course design, a logo, pricing, ideas on how to construct the course, lesson plans to involve the students, and ideas on how to get the local community involved.
It was accepted and the Hawks Nest was born.
With the help of another teacher, Rachel Slagle, grant letters were written, and fundraisers were scheduled to raise the money to bring their vision to reality. They worked with Decatur Central High School vocational teachers/students to perform the course installation and creation of the logo.
