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The latest Brainerd coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Prep section.
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Prep football jamborees start tonight
Three events offer glimpse of new prep football season

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Region 3-3A Football Preview: Red Bank favored to repeat
The Lions began preparing for 2017 with both success and failure as their motivation.

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Annual prep football practice tour includes 21 teams [photos]
As tough as it is to believe, we have less than a month before another high school football season kicks off. So for the 18th straight year I tried Monday to visit as many area teams as I could on the first day that Tennessee allowed them to practice in full pads.

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Sequatchie Valley jamboree schedule announced
The annual Sequatchie Valley football jamboree, one of the oldest in Tennessee, has been set for Friday, Aug. 11, at Sequatchie County High School in Dunlap.

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Best of Preps jamboree schedule set
With only about a month remaining before the 2017 high school football season kicks off, the schedule has been set for the event that signals the start to the season. For the second year in a row the Times Free Press will be the proud sponsor of the Kickoff Classic Best of Preps jamboree at Finley Stadium.

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Reviewing Chattanooga area spring football
A look at area Tennessee football spring drills.

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Four local track boys win state titles [photos]
Hakim McMorris had spent more than an hour sitting alone, far away from everyone else, stewing over his earlier performance. Only one thing could make him forget the sting of disappointment he had felt in his first race Friday at the Middle Tennessee State University track.

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Prep Notebook: Arts & Sciences gets first Cordell Memorial award for softball
The area TSSAA umpires association presented Arts & Sciences with the first Terry Cordell Memorial Softball Sportsmanship Award shortly before its District 5-A high school softball game Tuesday at Silverdale Baptist Academy. Cordell was the assigner of umpires for softball and baseball in the Chattanooga area for more than 20 years.

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Brainerd’s Kentrell Evans signs with Lee University
All-state Brainerd point guard Kentrell Evans signed a letter of intent Tuesday evening to continue his basketball career at Lee University, and the ceremony at the Eastdale youth and family development center was like a church testimony service.

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Brainerd loses in state tournament, but Levar Brown proud of Panthers’ growth [photos]
When Brainerd boys' basketball coach Levar Brown read the story of how the Chinese bamboo tree lies dormant for four years before it begins to grow, he knew he had found a theme for his team. Farmers will water and nurture bamboo trees for four and sometimes five years before seeing any return on their work.
