Former Soddy-Daisy all-state pitcher Nikki Waters has decided to return home to finish her college softball career at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Waters, who will be a junior next season, has played the previous two season at Southern Illinois University. Last season she had a record of 15-2 with a 1.73 ERA for the Salukis. In high school, she helped lead the Lady Trojans to the AAA state title in her junior and senior seasons.
Waters says she is transferring to UTC to be closer to home.
See Friday’s Times Free Press for more on this story.
Jim Tanner has worked as assistant sports editor at the Times Free Press since late 2006. He started at the Times Free Press in 2001 and worked as a news copy/design editor from 2001 through 2006. In addition to working as a night and weekend editor producing local and national sports coverage for print and online readers, Jim occasionally writes local sports and outdoors stories. Jim grew up in Ringgold, Ga., and is a graduate ...
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