Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame banquet tickets on sale

January 27, 2024 at 9:00 p.m.

by Staff Report

AP file photo by Chris Szagola / Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Patrick Johnson (48) played in the Super Bowl last February, but before being selected in the 2021 NFL draft after a standout career at Tulane, he was a prep football star for Chattanooga's Notre Dame. Along with Cleveland High School junior Piper Fowler, who won a world championship in wrestling last summer, Johnson will be honored as one of the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame's athletes of the year at its March 11 induction banquet.
AP file photo by Chris Szagola / Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Patrick Johnson (48) played in the Super Bowl last February, but before being selected in the 2021 NFL draft after a standout career at Tulane, he was a prep football star for Chattanooga's Notre Dame. Along with Cleveland High School junior Piper Fowler, who won a world championship in wrestling last summer, Johnson will be honored as one of the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame's athletes of the year at its March 11 induction banquet.

Tickets are on sale for the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame induction banquet on March 11 at the Chattanooga Convention Center.

Twenty new inductees will be honored along with six special award winners. The event will begin at 6 p.m.

Tickets cost $60 or a table for eight may be reserved for $500, either way at chatthalloffame.org. The deadline is Feb. 26.

The inductees include Cotton Perry for auto racing, Sal Rende and Van Shumaker for baseball, Johnny Taylor and Ron Shumate for men's basketball, Tommy Jewell and Jason Reuter for women's basketball, Eric Westmoreland and Robert Akins for football, Ted Broyles and Kirk Lewis for officials/administrators and Heather Randolph and the late Doug Moser for softball.

Brandon Deal is going into the hall for soccer, Bonny List for swimming, Lindsey Young for sports media, Lamonte Vaughn Jr. for track and field, Connie Caldwell-Rogan for volleyball and Gary Drinnon and Terence Derrick for weightlifting.

Special awards are going to athletes of the year Piper Fowler and Patrick Johnson as well as Jamarie Ballard, Laura Herron, Vernon Holtcamp and Presidents Award recipient Bobby Dunn.

Compiled by Stephen Hargis. Contact him at shargis@timesfreepress.com.

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