Arts & Sciences' girls started and finished well in both halves of their District 5-A high school basketball home game Friday. They did both extremely well in the second half.
Michael Murphy has enjoyed wrestling from the moment he first tried it as a second-grader at Lookout Mountain Elementary. “I liked seeing who was the best,” he said.
The term "fifth-year senior" is associated with college athletics. The term "senior playing for a fifth year" could be rapidly becoming associated with TSSAA ahtletics, at least locally.
Like mother, like son is not normally the way the saying goes. But what Arts & Sciences' JaVaughn Craig is doing these days is not normal, either.
When a coach is also a father, what sport his child ends up playing seems a natural choice. But not so when dad coaches football and the child, in this case Boyd-Buchanan's Maddie Wright, is a girl.
District 7-AA includes some longtime girls' basketball powers, and again it's one of the most rugged in the TSSAA. And its newest rising star is 5-foot-3 and 98 pounds.
What Lookout Valley did Thursday at the start of the second half in its high school basketball game at Sale Creek made what it did at the end relevant.
When high school District 6-A holds its tournament-seeding meeting a week from today, the boys' coaches might just as well be drawing team names out of a hat.
Like last time when McCallie played Baylor in a TSSAA Division II-AA East/Middle Region basketball game at McCallie, Saturday’s game at Baylor was a tight one at the end. Like last time, and every time, school spirit was at a fever pitch.
Lookout Valley's Delaney Heathington was so excited about what happened Friday night, he flipped -- literally.
Marion County's Brooke Baxter has two seasons of high school softball eligibility left, but she's already sure where she wants to play in college. The Lady Warriors outfielder has accepted a scholarship offer to continue her career at East Tennessee State University.
D'Mondta Smith doesn't appear to have much in the way of shortcomings when he's on a basketball court. Pressed into noting one, his Hixson High School coach, Alex Disbrow, said, "I've had to talk him into shooting more."
Baylor’s Henrique Ribeiro is still trying to learn all the components involved when it comes to properly kicking a football. But it’s likely more so for other reasons that most major college football programs still haven’t learned about him.
WHITWELL, Tenn. — Whitwell and Sale Creek knew the District 6-A high school girls' basketball game Tuesday at Whitwell was a considerable one in the chase to be top-seeded in the district tournament. By halftime, the only thing considerable was the Lady Tigers' lead.
Whitwell's Lady Tigers aren't so welcoming when hosting high school basketball games this season, even though they're waiting to greet their opponents as they exit the bus.
TRENTON, Ga. — It didn't matter that Dade County got in a little foul trouble in the first half. Neither did it matter that the Wolverines lost a little focus at the start of the second and third quarters.
The boys' high school basketball coaching matchup Thursday at Grace Academy was between former District 5-A counterparts Jon Mattheiss and McCallie's Dan Wadley, formerly of now-closed Tennessee Temple.
GPS probably would've liked to have had a smoother-looking finish to its basketball game Tuesday at Baylor, but the way the Bruisers played leading up to the last two and a half minutes proved plenty fluent enough.
The way things went at the start of Friday's District 5-A high school basketball game at Grace Academy, the Golden Eagles' Stephen Record appeared to be on, well, a record-setting scoring pace.
For the last three-plus years, eight members of the East Ridge boys' basketball team have learned, labored and lamented together as friends, just as much as teammates.
Two games into this high school basketball season, both 20-point losses, East Ridge looked like anything but a team that would contend for any kind of title. Now six games into the District 6-AA schedule, a contender is exactly what the Pioneers are.
B.J. Benning has long had his sights set on playing in a particular three-letter professional basketball league. For now, he said he's content playing in another.
Because Jabari Evans is a newcomer to the Brainerd High School boys' basketball team, the Panthers may not have known how much he was missed when he got hurt early in the season.
McMinn Central girls’ basketball coach Johnny Morgan spent 33 seasons chasing that elusive state championship until finally capturing the Class AA title last March in Murfreesboro and bringing the gold trophy home to Englewood.
The 49-14 record and third-place finish in the TSSAA Class A state volleyball tournament this year were both season school bests at Sale Creek, which opened in 1973. Now alongside those achievements, the Lady Panthers’ program can add their the first two all-state selections.
The showmanship GPS and Cleveland displayed in the open court in Friday's girls' championship game in the Times Free Press Best of Preps basketball tournament had the capacity crowd buzzing at various times.
McCallie didn't have a 14-0 run Thursday against Red Bank like it did against Cleveland on Wednesday. The Blue Tornado could only muster a 13-0 run, but they did it twice -- and before halftime.
Clearly, shot selection had a great deal to do with Thursday's 44-32 outcome when Tyner defeated Baylor in a boys' semifinal in the Times Free Press Best of Preps basketball tournament at Arts & Sciences.
Red Bank's boys did something throughout the entire second half that they managed to do only once in the first half, and that was own the lead.
The girls' side of the sixth Times Free Press Best of Preps high school basketball tournament, which starts this morning at 10, again will feature a load of talent. For some, at least a double load.
Good morning. I'm the gymnasium at the Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences. I'm 57 years old and the oldest active gym in Hamilton County.
High school hoops junkies can get their fill this week. The Times Free Press's annual three-day basketball-fest is fast approaching.
Pope High School, from Marietta, Ga., and Cleveland fought it out at the top of the standings Saturday in the McCallie Invitational wrestling tournament, and they fought it out on the mat in the match that swung the lead Pope's way for good.
Arts & Sciences has hired former GPS and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga athlete Kristin Holloway as its softball coach.
Tyner was limited to four points in the fourth quarter of its District 6-AA boys' high school basketball game Friday against Brainerd, but that included the most timely basket of the night.
Because the TSSAA has barred Brainerd's girls from this high school basketball postseason, the Lady Panthers are imited to one goal this season, and that's the District 6-AA regular-season title. Tuesday at East Hamilton, they took a big step toward that goal.
There's no making up for the Ziegler clan's loss in 2002, but the family did come out ahead twice Saturday in the Hoops for Hope high school girls' basketball fundraiser for breast cancer awareness at Baylor.
The Hoops for Hope high school basketball breast cancer-awareness fundraiser is turning three years old, and with that comes a big growth spurt.
McMinn Central's Elizabeth Masengil had to sit and watch a good portion of the Chargerettes' high school basketball game Monday at East Hamilton. Too bad she didn't get to see herself play. She might've been impressed.
If playing well defensively without fouling is a recipe for success in basketball, that would explain succinctly McCallie's 82-61 victory over Notre Dame on Thursday.
Central's Purple Pounders knew they would have to get off to a good start Tuesday to have any chance of winning their District 6-AA high school basketball game at Brainerd. But even that didn't help.
South Pittsburg's Demetric Johnson had such a good night in the Pirates' Class 1A high school football semifinal against Gordonsville, he piled up more yardage than any group of people -- barely.
The TSSAA basketball season is barely more than a week old, but already some shockwaves have rocked one of the local districts.
Boyd-Buchanan’s football loss was painful Friday. It appears Friendship Christian’s victory was, too.
Boyd-Buchanan's John Hale wears many hats, so to speak, but only one helmet.
Ooltewah can only hope its season progresses as well as its play progressed over the first three quarters Tuesday at East Ridge.
GPS's Madison Boyd and Grace Academy's Bethany Cowart signed softball scholarship papers with East Tennessee State University in the last few days.
Soddy-Daisy junior Cassidy Hackney has accepted a softball scholarship offer from coach Tory Acheson and plans to continue her career at Tennessee Tech University.
Katie Henderson on Friday became the first athlete from Silverdale Baptist Academy to sign scholarship papers with an NCAA Division I school when she fulfilled a pledge she made last December and signed to play softball at Kentucky.
