For more than a decade, Chattanooga has produced some of the top high school track talent in the state.
Local sprinters and hurdlers have been particularly electric, with several not only winning state titles but setting state records.
Brevin Sims has accomplished both – having won eight TSSAA state championships overall and setting the state record in the 110-meter hurdles last spring. The Arts & Sciences star also owns a state record in the 60-meter indoor hurdles.
He won both the 110- and 300-meter hurdles state titles at last year’s Spring Fling – his time of 13.68 seconds in the 110 was the sixth-fastest in the nation – where he also qualified in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. Sims also has never lost an individual hurdles event since his eighth grade season, earning a spot as one of the most accomplished prep track athletes in city history.
Sims, fellow CSAS standout Alayah Dozier, Tyner’s Jeremiah Batiste and Baylor’s Makayla Packer – all of them seniors – are among the local sprinters who were expected to challenge for championships and potentially add to the list of state records before the coronavirus pandemic canceled the 2020 season.