Stephen Pryor remains on the fast track to the major leagues with the Seattle Mariners.

Derek Waugh made annual trips to Chattanooga in the early 1990s when he was starring in basketball at Furman University.

Area college baseball teams trying to get their seasons started have been hindered by a lot of rain lately, and the forecast for Saturday has led to adjustments in their opening dates.

Kristen Vredeveld seems just to be taking off with her athletic career, while Joel Bradford just finished an outstanding college football career and now can decide where else his abilities and interests in sports take him.

Soddy-Daisy High School and Girls Preparatory School earned their first state bowling championships Saturday at the Smyrna Bowling Center.

Girls Preparatory School already has one state bowling championship from this year’s tournament at Smyrna, Tenn. All the Bruisers want in on the fun today.

It was a wild year for area trails but a good year for Wild Trails, the local nonprofit that directs money to building and maintaining wilderness path projects through the region.

Girls Preparatory School never has reached a final in the state bowling tournament.

There will be a new Division I boys' state bowling champion this year. The Soddy-Daisy Trojans quickly saw to that Monday afternoon in their sectional against 2011 champ Smyrna at Holiday Bowl Hixson.

Niki Bell was determined to take her team with her this time. It was her last chance, after all. The Soddy-Daisy High School senior bowled games of 210, 226 and 234 in a 22-5 blowout of Spring Hill in Saturday's girls' state sectional at Holiday Bowl Hixson.

Two weeks before his 2012 season starts, Chattanooga State baseball coach Greg Dennis made great progress toward the 2013 season.

Talent, teamwork and time together go a long way in team tennis — Texas, for instance.

Rugby is not for everybody, but almost every body is good for rugby, according to Kirk Neubauer, the player-coach of Chattanooga's 34-year-old club for the rough-and-tumble sport.

Melinda Welton has attended the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Festival at Birchwood "several times," but the professional ornithologist from Franklin is in a new role this year as co-chair of the event.

Trail runner. Mountain biker. Adventure racer. Pretty much any kind of weather.

The annual Karen Lawrence Run for St. Jude has become the Chris Berry New Year’s Eve Cruise.

Four-time Tennessee state champion. First-team All-American. Three-time All-American Scholar. And now the first Chattanooga native to be named to a United States Curtis Cup team.

Lee University men's basketball coach Tommy Brown and one of his assistants, Josh Templeton, are getting some unscheduled time off in the aftermath of a heated overtime contest at Spring Hill College.

Saturday is trail-race day on Lookout Mountain.

The 10-person induction class for the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in May is loaded with men who earned acclaim on a national scale, and four of those have Chattanooga ties.

The death of an area deer hunter two weeks ago when his tree stand broke rekindled attention to the danger in the sport.

Notre Dame High School senior golfer David Weeks has committed to play next year for Jacksonville State University. The Alabama school was one of several colleges recruiting Weeks, according to Notre Dame coach Jeff Fisher.

Even being hit by a car didn't stop Chris Berry from his highest achievement as a runner.

Gun season for deer hunters in Tennessee starts Saturday, and Dunlap's Josh Kidwell has some catching up to do.

Bria Deveaux has joined the impressive list of recent Baylor School swimmers moving on to NCAA Division I programs. The third-year Baylor boarder from the Bahamas signed a national letter of intent Tuesday night to go to Nebraska next year.

James Pearce is in Chattanooga for a year as a law clerk for federal judge Curtis Collier.

Ashley Czechner went 12-3 with a 1.74 earned run average last spring as a softball pitcher for Maryland. This school year she’s at Chattanooga State, and Wednesday she signed scholarship papers to remain a Tiger but back in NCAA Division I at Louisiana State.

A 16,000-mile adventure this summer has led to a new venture for former University of Richmond soccer teammates Fynn Glover of Chattanooga and Russell Himelein of Wilmington, Del.

Jay Price had one of those great problems to have last basketball season, coaching both of his Chattanooga State basketball teams to simultaneous national tournaments at separate Kansas locations.

Tennessee Temple University gets a head start on every other basketball team in the area with a game Friday night in Memphis against Shepherd Tech.

Hometown teams won five titles as the USTA Combos Tennessee Championships concluded Sunday in Chattanooga.

Double success has created a dilemma for a Chattanooga team in the USTA Combos State Championships tournament.

The East Tennessee Pointing Dog Association already was off to a solid start in membership, and its first sanctioned field trial two weekends ago in Spring City added to the enthusiasm.

It was Baylor versus McCallie in the final of the oldest age division of the mammoth McCallie John Strang Memorial junior tennis tournament Monday afternoon at the Champions Club.

Hugh Enicks has won the historic Chickamauga Battlefield Marathon in November three times and finished second there another time.

From Ooltewah came a triple national champion last week at the Arabian Sport Horse Nationals in Lexington, Ky.

A remarkable Riddle left no question Saturday in the 2011 StumpJump 50k trail race. And Nashville's Lindsay Beckner made her first trail competition a victorious one as the women's overall winner.

She was the first female athlete in the Clemson University Hall of Fame, and she since has gone into the Red Bank High School, Greater Chattanooga and Tennessee Tennis halls of fame.

It can't take away the pain of her summer, but Georgia McCravey can take great pride in an early-fall accomplishment at Signal Mountain Golf and Country Club.

Professional indoor football is returning to Camp Jordan Arena in East Ridge, this time in a league with former Kentucky star quarterback Jared Lorenzen as the commissioner.

The Sewanee football team showed Saturday that it is for real -- real enough to lose on a couple of mistakes instead of being overwhelmed, as has so often been the case in recent years.

The last three football seasons, Sewanee went 3-26 and lost 49-0, 34-17 and 50-10 to Birmingham-Southern.

Race director Karen Pearson has a biblical background for the distinctive buckle everyone who finishes the 100-mile option of the inaugural Georgia Jewel will receive this weekend — and even for the trail race’s name.

Chattanooga State has 25 or so new baseball players to go with a solid group of returning sophomores, and some of the newcomers have been particularly impressive in fall-semester workouts.

The Honors Course in Ooltewah again has received high praise from the golfers as well as USGA officials this week in the U.S. Senior Women's Amateur Championship.

A great day for Andrea Kraus at The Honors Course suddenly turned awful Tuesday. And despite her attorney skills, the Baltimore resident couldn't do anything about it.

Four years ago when his father joined longtime friend Jay Reed in an alligator hunt in southwestern Georgia and Reed subsequently got one of the big reptiles, Jeremiah Gilliam could only listen to the story.

A steady rain limited the turnout but not the enthusiasm at the 23rd annual 5k for FCA race Monday morning. It didn't even slow the runners too much. Even the Kiddy K went on at Chattanooga State.

Between them, the Sewanee and Earlham College football teams went 1-19 last year. The win was Sewanee's 33-14 victory in the season opener at the Quakers' field in Richmond, Ind.

Normally by the Wednesday before Labor Day, Chester Frost Park already has campers setting up in the 22-site overflow area. This week that wasn't the case, although the rangers expect full capacity for the weekend.