Lindsey Young is a sports writer at the Chattanooga Times Free Press who started work at the Chattanooga News-Free Press 24 years ago.
He covers the Northwest Georgia prep beat and NASCAR.
Lindsey’s hometown is Ringgold, Ga., and he graduated from Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School. He received an associate’s degree from Dalton Junior College (now Dalton State) and a bachelor’s degree in communications from UTC.
He has won several writing awards, including two Tennessee Sports Writers Association Prep Writer of the Year awards. Lindsey is married to Christine and has two children, Nicholas and Cody, and one step-daughter, Lacey. In addition to being an all-around sports fan, he is an avid bowler with five career 300 games and a high series of 801.
Contact Lindsey at 423-757-6296 or lyoung@timesfreepress.com.
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Glen Hicks learned that even after 35 years of coaching there still are lessons to be learned. When Hicks looked at his Dade County basketball team this past summer, he saw a team that, due to graduation losses that included star point guard Travis Core and center Andrew Reid, needed some tweaks.
DALTON, Ga. — The game will not go down as an artistic beauty, but Dalton's 56-49 basketball win over LaFayette on Tuesday may have been the prettiest thing Mike Duffie has seen all season.
TRION, Ga. -- Justin Brown may be working his first week as a head football coach, but he wants the folks in Trion to know that, as far as his football soul goes, he's very old school.
Gilmer County's Bobcats won the day, but Heritage may have a leg up on the big prize after the conclusion of an eventful Area 7-AAA traditional wrestling tournament Saturday at Allatoona High School.
The recipe was ripe for disaster at LaFayette High School. The Ramblers were hosting Walker County rival Ridgeland on Senior Night with a top-two region finish on the line. It was enough to make LaFayette coach Tommy Swanson a little irritable during the day.
Try as he might, Mike Duffie cannot hide the frustration. The Dalton High School boys’ basketball coach has been around the game long enough to know when something isn’t right, and what’s happened to Tristen Harrell has Duffie a bit on edge.
Georgia's second wrestling postseason begins today, and the challenges facing the area's best possibilities for team championships are eerily similar.
Less than two months ago Reed Allen was celebrating with his Calhoun High School football teammates in the Georgia Dome, teenagers in the prime of their lives cutting loose after winning a state championship.
Mike Duffie calls Tristen Harrell the most underrated player in Georgia. After the week the senior wing has had, that's all about to change.
