Heritage High School athletic director Eric Schexnaildre announced Wednesday the hiring of Greg Elkins as the school's next girls' basketball coach.

After a career that spanned four decades, Doug Armstrong decided it was time to step away. Armstrong announced his decision Monday, retiring as boys' basketball coach and athletic director at McMinn Central, where he spent the last 29 of his 40-year career.

From those who have volunteered their medical assistance to those who have made a mockery of social distancing, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the best and worst in people.

McCallie is home to reigning high school state champions in cross country, football, tennis, soccer and swimming, but a lesser-known Blue Tornado team is excelling in a comparatively new and increasingly popular form of competition and entertainment.

Few professions can inspire people quite like coaches.

Joshua Wicks won a state title as a lacrosse player at Baylor School.

The glimmer of hope for prep spring sports to be played in Tennessee is getting dimmer for TSSAA executive director Bernard Childress.

It may go down as the great season of what-ifs in Georgia.

Michael Houge, a versatile 6-foot-7 senior for Chattanooga Christian this past basketball season, has committed to Mars Hill University, an NCAA Division II program in the hoops-crazed state of North Carolina.

Trion High School principal Bryan Edge and athletic director Jason Lanham announced the hiring of one of Georgia's top prep assistant coaches to fill the program's head coaching position.

Drew Williams was supposed to be entering this AAU season - perhaps the most important of his young career - with the goal of having the type of spring and summer that would put him on the radar of major colleges across the country.

University of Kentucky standout John Rhodes prepares the same way for each baseball game.

Dozens of rows of boxes, stacked high and ready for delivery, stretch throughout much of the warehouse inside Sports Spectrum on Highway 58.

Since his dazzling days as McCallie's quarterback, Robert Riddle has redshirted the 2017 season at Mercer University, started three games in 2018 and made seven starts this past season.

Even after Gov. Bill Lee's call to extend school closures in Tennessee through April 24 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the TSSAA is holding out hope its state tournaments for girls' and boys' basketball as well as the spring sports season can still be played.

Raegyn Conley has all the attributes a major college basketball program could want.

Treasure Hunt is not your average teenage athlete, but then again, Hamilton Heights Christian Academy does not have a typical high school basketball program.

Not all national basketball tournaments were canceled.

Senior student-athletes at Tennessee high schools are balancing hope with uncertainty when it comes to closure on an important chapter of their lives.

To understand Cleveland senior point guard JaCobi Wood's ascension to Class AAA Mr. Basketball, one would have to understand his older brother, Jay Mee.

Hoping to salvage the sports dreams of several thousand high school athletes throughout the state, the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association's Board of Control voted unanimously Tuesday to continue the wait-and-see plan.

It's easy to see Rhyne Howard now, when she is one of the — if not the — most singularly talented college basketball players in the country and think that the confident nature, the swagger she carries herself with is natural.

The world was only a few months into a new decade, and I was less than a year out of high school when my life changed for the better, all by chance.