Lindsey Young

Lindsey Young is the assistant sports editor at the Times Free Press and began his career with the News Free-Press in 1986 after graduating from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications and associate’s degrees in English and Psychology. At the News Free Press and now the Times Free Press he has covered preps, mostly in the Northwest Georgia area, including numerous state championships, and has won several Tennessee Sports Writers Association awards. He was the paper’s NASCAR beat writer for 12 years and has, over the years, covered a Super Bowl, two World Series, many college football games and served as the beat writer for UTC for parts of three years. Lindsey is a 2024 inductee into the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame.

Contact Lindsey Young at lyoung@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6296.

‘Amazing’ baseball comeback headlines Trion’s special spring sports season

by Lindsey Young ·May 2, 2026

If there is a noticeable drop in attendance at Trion High School next week, just blame the sports teams.

Staff file photo / Trion High School athletic director Jason Lanham, left, is proud to still have six of the school's sports programs competing in the GHSA postseason this spring, including the baseball team he coaches.

Gordon Lee, Calhoun hold serve in GHSA baseball’s Sweet 16

by Lindsey Young ·April 30, 2026

Gordon Lee and Calhoun, as expected if the GHSA postseason rankings are to be believed, earned rather easy baseball doubleheader sweeps Thursday.

Staff File Photo by Seth Carpenter/ Gordon Lee's Maddox Millard improved to 10-0 with a complete-game two-hitter in Thursday's sweep of visiting Toombs County in the GHSA Class A Division I Sweet 16.

Prep roundup: Northwest Whitfield boys’ season ends with OT loss to Jefferson

by Lindsey Young ·April 29, 2026

The Northwest Whitfield boys' soccer team had allowed 10 goals all season while compiling a 14-2 record entering Wednesday, but the Bruins won't be moving on to the GHSA Class AAA quarterfinals.

Staff photo by Larry Sullivan II / Northwest Whitfield's Jahir Navarro controls the ball as Jefferson's Coleman Rudisill defends during a second-round game in the GHSA Class AAA playoffs Wednesday in Tunnel Hill, Ga.

Heritage stays in house for next girls’ basketball coach

by Lindsey Young ·April 27, 2026

Fresh off winning a state championship, the administration at Heritage High School wanted to maintain as much status quo as possible after head girls' basketball coach Greg Elkins resigned earlier this month.

Staff File Photo by Seth Carpenter/ Two weeks after state championship-winning coach Greg Elkins resigned as head girls basketball coach, Heritage named assistant coach James Gribben as his successor Monday.

Northwest Whifield’s ‘Baby Bruins’ flex muscles with sweep of Heritage

by Lindsey Young ·April 24, 2026

When Northwest Whitfield baseball coach David Redmond saw the bracket for the GHSA Class AAA playoffs, he wasn't, to say the least, happy.

Staff photo by Larry Sullivan II / Northwest Whitfield's Weston Densmore (21) jumps and celebrates with fellow freshman Moe Hibbs (9) after he hit a home run during the first game of Friday's doubleheader at Heritage in the first round of the GHSA Class AAA playoffs. The visiting Bruins won the opener 12-9 and the second game 9-3 to sweep the best-of-three series.

Gordon Lee has no first-round drama in GHSA baseball playoffs this year

by Lindsey Young ·April 23, 2026

What a difference a year makes for the Gordon Lee Trojans.

Staff file photo / Dustin Day led Gordon Lee to a first-round sweep of visiting McNair on Thursday as the senior had five hits, drove in nine runs and pitched a three-inning perfect game in the nightcap.

Championship-winning coach Elkins resigns at Heritage

by Lindsey Young ·April 15, 2026

State championship-winning coach Greg Elkins is resigning from his positions as girls' basketball coach and athletic director at Heritage High School at the end of the school year.

Staff File Photo by Seth Carpenter/ Heritage High School head girls basketball coach and athletic director Greg Elkins is leaving the school at the end of the school year after leading the program to the GHSA Class AAA championship. Elkins, who celebrated his 300th career win this year, cited family reasons for the decision.

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Carstens shows off ace stuff as Heritage responds against Bruins

by Lindsey Young ·April 9, 2026

If David Dinger was even a bit concerned with how his Heritage High School baseball team would react following Tuesday's 14-2 drubbing in game one of a three-game Region 7-AAA series with Northwest Whitfield, he needn't have bothered.

Staff Photo by Seth Carpenter/ Heritage's Peyton Wilson (22) celebrates making it to home plate with his teammate Owen Carstens (3) at Heritage High School on Thursday, April 9, 2026.

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‘A miracle by God’: Ringgold senior grateful for prayers after cancer scare

by Lindsey Young ·April 4, 2026

Two days, community support changed Tigers football player Elijah Pursley's life

Contributed photo / Elijah Pursley receives a hug from his cousin Regina Harris as his mother Jamie Pursley looks on during a prayer vigil at Ringgold High School's Don Patterson Field on March 8, the day before he was scheduled to undergo surgery to remove a tumor that had been diagnosed as cancerous. Pursley was a senior receiver for the Tigers last fall.

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Gordon Lee has ingredients to cook up baseball state title repeat

by Lindsey Young ·March 28, 2026

Trojans stay hungry even as reigning champions in GHSA Class A-Division I