Robert Roddie was nineteen when he traded the gray streets of Glasgow for a soccer scholarship at Reinhardt University, started for four years, and then found a career at Georgia Impact he never planned on. Sixteen years later, he is the club's Girls Director of Coaching and Director of Operations. As a USSF B License holder, he led the Georgia Impact women through a 2026 Southeast Conference title and a first-ever South Region championship this season, beating two-time champions Pensacola FC 4 to 0. This run carried the club to the WPSL National Championships in Riverside, Missouri.
"My motivation to coach is to give my knowledge to players so they can be better prepared to play at the next level," Roddie has said, and the players who came through the club would tell you he means it.
Off the field, Roddie lives on the Bridgemill side of Canton with his wife, Lauren, and their two children, trading a whistle for a soccer dad's folding chair most weeknights. Each summer, he becomes something like a second father to college-age players billeted with local families, feeding them and driving them to weeknight practice. Cherokee County gained a winning coach and a strong male role model.
Hunter Morris measures a job well done the way the Army taught him: line by line, detail by detail, no shortcuts allowed. Six years of service instilled a discipline that never left him, and these days it shows up in retaining walls that sit flush, sod lines cut clean as a fresh blade, and a maintenance schedule his clients could set a watch to. Morris and his wife, Anna, started MorGreen Landscaping as a husband and wife operation serving Canton, Woodstock, and the rest of Cherokee County, the kind of veteran owned, family operated business where the owner still answers the phone himself and walks the property before the crew ever leaves. Near Holbrook Campground, Morris has built a client list on word of mouth and repeat calls, the natural result of showing up when he says he will and leaving a yard better than he found it.
Drive through the neighborhoods MorGreen has touched, and the fingerprints are easy to spot, a retaining wall holding back a slope that used to erode every spring, a bed of pine straw laid so precisely it looks stenciled, a lawn that finally drains right after seasons of standing water. None of it is flashy work. All of it is the kind neighbors notice at the mailbox, the reason MorGreen has grown from a one truck operation to a crew serving Canton, Woodstock, Milton, Alpharetta, and Ball Ground almost entirely through referrals. The past year brought the biggest project yet. Hunter and Anna welcomed a newborn, and fatherhood has only sharpened his sense of purpose. Morris has started thinking about MorGreen less as a business he is building and more as something to hand down eventually, a name with his and Anna's fingerprints on it that means something in Cherokee County long after any single job is finished.
He still answers his own phone. He still walks every property before his crew rolls out and after they roll away. Cherokee County has plenty of landscaping companies. It has one that answers to a veteran who measures success the way he was trained, one satisfied yard at a time.
"None of it happened overnight. All of it happened one referral at a time." - Humter Morris