After becoming the first Bradley Central girls’ basketball team to win a third straight TSSAA state title, the 2024-25 edition of the Bearettes have garnered more postseason recognition.
Ranked No. 4 in the country by MaxPreps, which also tabbed Jason Reuter as the national head coach of the year and Kimora Fields as Tennessee’s player of the year, Bradley Central was the only team in the Chattanooga area to have multiple selections to the Tennessee Sports Writers Association all-state teams for girls’ basketball.
Fields, a two-time state tournament MVP and this year’s Miss Basketball winner in Class 4A , was joined in all-state recognition by Bradley Central seniors TaTianna Stovall and Harmonie Ware. Stovall has signed with Kennesaw State of Conference USA, Ware has signed with Arkansas of the Southeastern Conference, and Fields has committed to Clemson of the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Fields averaged 20 points per game while shooting better than 66% from the field, Ware averaged 15 points and shot 44% from 3-point range, and Stovall averaged 12-plus points, seven rebounds and more than a block per game for the Bearettes, whose 70-28 rout of Bartlett on March 15 in Murfreesboro capped a 35-1 season. Outside of their lone loss — 80-59 in January to Florida’s Montverde Academy, the nation’s top-ranked girls’ basketball team — the Bearettes’ average game score was 78-29.5.
Their scoring offense and scoring defense were the best in the history of a program rich in tradition and success, which includes nine TSSAA state titles and the most all-time wins of any girls’ basketball program in Tennessee.