Any statistic or number related to girls' basketball has to be pretty impressive to catch Carolyn Jackson's eye. In her 38th season as Brainerd High School's coach, Jackson has more than 800 wins, and her program is the last from Hamilton County to have claimed a girls' state championship.
It was while Tim Daniels was working as an assistant coach for a postseason all-star game that the thought first crossed his mind. Coaching the offensive line three years ago for a senior showcase, Daniels enjoyed working outside the spotlight that comes with being a head coach.
After guiding Red Bank’s football program for 10 years, Tim Daniels has resigned as head football coach.
Family and familiarity with the program helped guide Tory Kemp's decision on where she will continue her athletic career. The GPS senior verbally committed to sign a track scholarship with the University of North Carolina Wednesday, where she will join her older brother T.J., who is on a lacrosse scholarship at UNC after an all-state career at McCallie.
With the postseason rapidly approaching, GPS basketball coach Susan Crownover wanted to leave little doubt that her Bruisers are peaking at the right time as they prepare to defend their Division II state title.
For several years now, LaQuisha Jackson has had a plan in mind for her future. Since her breakout freshman season in which she became Tennessee's fastest female sprinter, Jackson began to focus on becoming not just the best in her home state but in the nation and eventually reaching the Olympics.
Vonn Bell’s list of football scholarship offers grew by one Thursday, and it was the one he had been waiting on for some time.
Ridgeland High School star safety Vonn Bell got another phone call from another high-profile SEC football coach Thursday.
With what will likely be a hectic year of recruiting still ahead of him, Vonn Bell's rising stock reached an early zenith with one impressive phone call Wednesday.
CLEVELAND, Tenn. — For as long as he can remember, Austin Sanders has sat in the Neyland Stadium stands next to his dad on fall Saturdays.
Once the backbone of a football program that during a 20-year stretch had 18 seasons of at least eight wins, recruiting is at the core of the Tennessee Volunteers’ downward spiral of the past four years.
Former University of Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton was in Chattanooga on Thursday to promote awareness for his new venture as president of U.S. Operations for Nashville-based charity Blood:Water Mission, a nonprofit organization that addresses the HIV/AIDS and water crises in Africa.
It took only one campus visit for T.J. Warren to realize where he would continue his football career. After spending the weekend touring Furman's campus and discussing future on-field plans with coaches there, the Ooltewah senior committed to the Paladins.
With his team trailing by one point and just 41 seconds remaining, Brainerd basketball coach Robert High couldn't have felt more confident.
They are professional businesswomen, mothers and wives now. But the members of Rossville's 1986 basketball team, one of the last in that school's history, also have another claim.
After building a successful career in the mid-state area for more than 20 years, Ron Crawford is heading east, looking to rebuild one of this area's historically proud programs.
Cleveland High School has announced the hiring of Ron Crawford it’s new head football coach.
What was supposed to be a chance for Keionta Davis to solidify himself as a major college football prospect never materialized.
It only took one visit for Jay Rudwall to know where he would continue his football career. Ooltewah's senior linebacker committed to Tennessee Tech while on an official visit to the Cookeville campus over the weekend.
One of the universal feelings we share this time every year is the anticipation of infinite possibilities that might be in the months ahead.
It was a unique year for high school sports in the area, with many of the biggest stories taking place off the playing surfaces. Here are my 10 most memorable stories from 2011 involving area prep sports.
Two Bradley Central players and one each from Ooltewah and Cleveland earned spots on the Tennessee Sports Writers Association's 2011 all-state football teams.
If we've learned anything from the first two days of the annual Times Free Press Best of Preps basketball tournament, it's this: Hang on for what should be a wild season of hoops.
There are moments, like when she catches herself momentarily scanning the bleachers or awaits the postgame phone call that isn't coming, that the reality hasn't sank in for Susan Crownover just yet.
After wasting no time in taking command early, Baylor's girls basketball team closed out its opening round win just as strong in a 50-23 win over Northwest Whitfield in the Best of Preps tournament.
Probably the best way to gain the consistency that first-year Cleveland girls' basketball coach Mindy Kiser had been missing was having Qetuwrah Abdullah-Muhammed back in the starting lineup.
Despite the disappointing premature ending to their season, four Signal Mountain football players earned spots on the Tennessee Sports Writers Association's Class 4A all-state team.
Although South Pittsburg and Boyd-Buchanan came up painfully short in their quests for state football championships, both schools have multiple players on the Tennessee Sports Writers Association all-state teams.
Five Baylor players, including two TSSAA Mr. Football award winners, and three from McCallie have been named to the Tennessee Sports Writers Association's Division II-AA all-state team.
After five mostly frustrating seasons, Houston White has announced his resignation as Hixson High School's football coach.
Houston White has announced his resignation as Hixson High School’s football coach after five seasons.
Not since Linda Blair's head rotated 360 degrees has there been a tougher demon to exorcise. Top-ranked and four-time defending Georgia Class AA state champion Buford, which had beaten Calhoun for the last three of those titles, refused to give up hope when everyone else at the Georgia Dome had.
More than envy, the emotion most often stirred when opponents look across the field and see Buford's green uniforms is doubt.
Ralph Potter is coming home. After five years as head football coach and athletic director at Brentwood Academy, Potter has agreed to return to his alma mater and coach McCallie's football program.
Mac McCurry, who has a history of rebuilding high school football programs, now has the opportunity to restore Marion County High School's. McCurry was named the Warriors' new head coach Monday.
Ralph Potter is coming home. After five years as head football coach and athletic director at Brentwood Academy, Potter has agreed to return to his alma mater and coach McCallie’s football program.
Marion County High School has hired Mac McCurry as its next head football coach. McCurry was the defensive coordinator at Signal Mountain this season and before that has coached at Moore County, Marshall County as well as Ripley High School in Mississippi.
For all the talk about South Pittsburg's big-game experience and how playing in four of the last five state championship games would be an advantage, it was Wayne County, making its title game debut, that looked much more at ease on the Tennessee Tech turf Friday afternoon.
For one South Pittsburg family, state football championships are passed down like a family heirloom.
In the game's first 14 snaps, Baylor's state championship hopes had been all but dashed.
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. — This was supposed to be Demetric Johnson’s breakout season. After a sophomore year in which he gave coaches and fans a glimpse of his potential with sensational catches and runs as a receiver and kick returner, Johnson was moved to running back this year to ensure he would have the ball in his hands more often.
SOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. — Sitting alone on the team bus after the most embarrassing loss of his career, South Pittsburg football coach Vic Grider was too livid to speak.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Barrett Gouger tilted the large wooden trophy he had just been handed upward so he could inspect the name inscribed, just to be certain.
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- In team meetings and in practice, Nic Bullard is known as a buzzard, which might not sit so well with his mother.
Trio wins TSSAA honors
While Baylor took a direct route, South Pittsburg followed a longer, more winding road to return to Cookeville. But all that matters this week for the Red Raiders and Pirates is that each team found its way back to Tennessee Tech for another chance to claim a state football championship.
With apologies to the Grateful Dead, what a long, strange trip it's been for South Pittsburg's football team to get back to Cookeville and the chance to defend its Class 1A state championship.
Wherever South Pittsburg's football program plays, the sideline and press box are noticeably more crowded with coaches than with most Class 1A programs.
The daunting distance that lies in front of him is intimidating, so Caleb Stallings keeps his eyes focused just a few feet ahead.
Baylor is back in, but two others still have work to do.
