CSAS team members crowd the field to congratulate Jamani Greer (21) after she hit a home run against Baylor Tuesday at Warner Park.OTHER ACTION• The City Council also took the first step to restructure the Youth and Family Development fees. The city will begin offering outdoor pool season passes and will allow adult sports leagues to extend their tournament schedule.
Lurone Jennings
Moses Freeman
For 11 years Jamani Greer has practiced softball at the city’s Washington Hills Recreation Center. And since she was 6 years old the center’s director, Dennis Leftwhich, has helped coached her.
She’s played in national tournaments with a local traveling softball club, even won a big scholarship to a Louisiana college next year. And the 17-year-old Chattanoogan credits Leftwich with driving her to that success.
“It’s been because of him giving me the opportunity and the life lessons I’ve had growing up that I am who I am,” she said.
That’s why Greer, a senior at Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences, said she helped with a petition to ask the city to bring back Leftwhich to the recreation center.