With more than 1,000 wins as softball coach at Chattanooga State and UTC, Frank Reed is going into the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame this year.
Longtime Tyner football coach Wayne Turner will be one of 20 new members of the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame on March 14.A decade before Antonio Parris went from Chattanooga to the state of Kentucky to star as a college basketball player, Gary Stich did the reverse.
On March 14 they’ll come together at the Chattanooga Convention Center as two of the 19 new members of the Greater Chattanooga Sports Hall of Fame. The dinner starts at 6:30 p.m., but in celebrating the organization’s 50th year there will be a reception for past and new inductees starting at 5.
Tickets for the banquet cost $40 and may be reserved through Catherine Neely at 842-7274.
No one had to ask “Is Parris burning?” during his time at Kirkman Technical High School and Eastern Kentucky University in the 1980s. He was almost always on fire during his Golden Hawks and Colonels games.
Parris led Kirkman to the TSSAA state tournament as a sophomore and scored 1,723 points in 102 games at EKU, setting several Ohio Valley Conference records.