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As one of the top-ranked soccer prospects from Georgia, Garrison Tubbs had several prominent suitors, including other quality ACC programs. But his final recruiting visit was to Wake Forest, and it just happened to coincide with the Wake Forest Soccer end-of-year banquet.
What Tubbs experienced at that event led him to the life-changing decision to attend Wake Forest University.
“I did have some good interest within the ACC,” Tubbs explained. “My last few choices were Wake Forest, Georgetown, Clemson and Notre Dame. Wake Forest was actually my last visit, and I wasn’t sure what I was going to expect. I came during the end of the year banquet and it was held in this nice room over at the football stadium. All the players, coaching staff and all the players’ families were there.”
The overwhelming support from the community toward the team and the sport of soccer itself left an indelible impact on Tubbs as he went back home to Georgia after the visit.
“There were also a bunch of people from around the community, a bunch of Wake Forest soccer supporters were there,” Tubbs said. “Most schools may tell you that they’re family. But Wake Forest, I feel like is the only place where I truly felt that that was the truth. I was sitting at a table with a couple of the guys on the team and their family members — the love that the supporters had for the guys and their families was something I’d never seen before.
“You could tell how close everyone was and how much love they had for the game of soccer. They were so connected and so just immersed in that banquet. It truly showed me what Wake Forest meant to all the players and the community in Winston-Salem. I always tell people that is the moment that I knew that Wake Force was special.”
It’s obviously been a perfect fit for Tubbs, who has a seemingly infinite list of accolades from his first three seasons with the Demon Deacons. He’s been named ACC Defensive Player of the Week, and earned inclusion on the ACC All-Freshman Team in 2020 and the All-ACC Second Team in 2022. In December, he earned United Soccer Coaches First-Team Scholar All-American honors, becoming the sixth…
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