Kristen Vredeveld seems just to be taking off with her athletic career, while Joel Bradford just finished an outstanding college football career and now can decide where else his abilities and interests in sports take him.
Then there are Tommy Layne and Rita Fanning, two who have been excelling on the sidelines for decades.
Fanning is getting the Betty Probasco Award and Layne will receive the Walt Lauter Award, both for lifetime achievement, at this year’s Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame banquet on Feb. 27 at the Chattanooga Convention Center.
The banquet costs $35, and tickets are available through Hall of Fame president John Farr at 875-9282.
Vredeveld, a Baylor School junior swimmer already getting international experience, will be honored as the female athlete of the year. Bradford, a former star football player for McCallie School and now the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is the organization’s male athlete of the year.