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Ridgeland High School football coach Cortney Braswell has resigned to accept an offer to join the staff at the University of Louisville.
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"My heart like dropped," Howard said. "I thought I should've made it, but I guess other people didn't think so."
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Tennessee's Class AAA Miss Basketball from Bradley Central High School, Rhyne Howard, now is a Miss USA selection.
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The 6-foot-2 University of Kentucky signee is the first Bradley Central player to win the award.
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Cherry first came to McCallie in 1970 as an assistant football coach. He became the school's AD in 1973 and remained in that role until 2008.
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Former McCallie standout student-athlete JaVaughn Craig has become a beacon of light not only on the football field but off it as well.
From the day he arrived on campus in Clarksville he made a difference at the school.
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When the Cleveland High School track standout was nearly ready to sign with Western Kentucky, Parker's dream school came sweeping in.
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The Times Free Press proudly introduces this year's Dynamite "Baker's Dozen" — the top 13 college prospects among Chattanooga area seniors. The TFP will begin a daily countdown of each player on the list in this Sunday's edition.
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BREAKING: The Chattanooga Football Club has announced it will join a professional soccer league in Spring 2020.
@ChattanoogaFC
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"Erroll has great eyes, which has helped him become one of the top linebackers in the country," Mississippi State second-year coach Joe Moorhead said.
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Grant Hurst, a former Cleveland High School basketball standout, has transferred to the University of Tennessee and joined the Vols as a preferred walk-on after spending his first two years of college at UT Martin.
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A Tennessee Mr. Basketball finalist for Division II-AA as a Baylor senior, Beyuan Hendricks averaged 18 points, five rebounds and four assists per game that 2018-19 season.
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Baylor is believed to be the first high school ever to have four alumni on the PGA Tour in the same season, with all four having played for King Oehmig.
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Brycen Sanders committed to the SEC West program Monday evening, choosing Mississippi over Tennessee and Oklahoma.
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"Ever since I met Coach Adams, I have wanted to follow in his footsteps and be a high school baseball coach," Grundy's Shaw Gamble said.
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Sophomore Ashton Simmons came through in the clutch to help advance Bradley Central to the baseball state final four.
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Malik McConnell - the savvy player who can catch fire from 3-point range and drive to the hoop with authority - ran into a setback his sophomore season that tested his perseverance.
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With Boyd Buchanan's football program in dire need of a complete rebuild, Jeremy Bosken is in the midst of a fixer-upper project that would make Chip and Joanna Gaines envious.
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Aiden McCleary threw for 232 yards and three touchdowns, spearheading the Bears' attack Friday night in a 45-7 win over Ooltewah at Bear Stadium.
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Kenzy Paul arrived at McCallie last August hungry to pursue his college football dreams. Less than a year later the Montreal, Quebec native accomplished a major goal as the receiver announced his commitment to the Vanderbilt University on his Twitter page.
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga softball program announced Monday that former All-American Megan Betsa will be the new pitching coach.
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With an approach that brings to mind three-time Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals, Lee University junior pitcher Logan Workman boasts a fastball that has reached 97 mph.
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It's a game 60 years in the making and will draw the attention of the entire state as two of the Chattanooga area's most accomplished and prideful programs face off for the first time since 1959.
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COLUMN: "while Peyton has long preferred to avoid the spotlight on his many charitable acts, these gifts are big news at Central, East Hamilton, Grace and Ooltewah."
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UPDATE: UTC offensive line coach Chris Malone has been fired.
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Under different circumstances, Sam Phillips may not have ever made it to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football roster.
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The Chattanooga FC's inaugural season in the National Independent Soccer Association was halted after one match.
Payments to CFC players, however, have not ceased.
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Shelby Duggard had a blossoming softball career until she was diagnosed with POTS, leaving her in a wheelchair.
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The 5-foot-9, 160-pound sophomore running back spoiled the Bradley Central Bears' senior night and their unbeaten record, earning Times Free Press Player of the Week honors in doing so.
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Bradley Central quarterback Aiden McClary threw for 180 yards and a touchdown while also rushing for 60 yards and another score in the Bears' nonregion win Friday night at Ooltewah to improve to 7-0.
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Meigs County pitching ace Ashley Rogers can add a national player of the year to her list of many awards received after leading the Lady Tigers to their third consecutive softball state championship in May.
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Two months after winning the most exciting Baylor-McCallie football game ever played, coach Ralph Potter's Blue Tornado came out on top in the most meaningful matchup ever staged between the storied Chattanooga rivals.
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The Seahawks have wasted no time finding a groove with junior Brett Rogers to go with the expertise of first-year offensive coordinator Jake Ledbetter — a former star left-handed quarterback at Red Bank High School.
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Quarterback Eli Morris and two-way star Eli Evans powered the attack, as Boyd Buchanan jumped on the Fighting Irish early.
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Chattanooga Football Club keeper Jean Antoine denied a comeback opportunity for the Michigan Stars with an emphatic stop on a penalty kick in the 66th minute of Saturday's 2-0 victory at Finley Stadium.
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When Anatolie Prepelita began his pro soccer career at 16, he was only 5-foot-8. Nine years later at 6-4, the Chattanooga Football Club back-line defender towers above many on the field.
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East Hamilton senior basketball star Madison Hayes has been named the Gatorade Player of the Year for Tennessee.
Read more about Hayes and watch a video here ⬇️
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Tennessee Wesleyan University became a two-time baseball national champion Friday night with a 6-2 win over St. Thomas in the final game of the 2019 Avista NAIA World Series at Lewiston, Idaho.
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Eli Denton and his defensive teammates shut down a dangerous Carter High attack in Friday's dominant road win for sixth-ranked Walker Valley.
That effort has earned Denton this week's Times Free Press Player of the Week honor.
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The same fight that helped East Hamilton's Judson Kilpatrick score three touchdowns — and use a stiff-arm move to shed a would-be tackler on a 40-yard run — against Sequoyah last Friday in his first game back also helped him kick cancer's butt.
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Silverdale Baptist is the only basketball program in the state to have their boys' and girls' teams ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the Associated Press state polls.
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Baseball has been a part of Steve Garland's life for more than 40 years, including 28 seasons of building one of the most successful prep coaching resumes Hamilton County has seen.
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"Last year I didn't get to play and was doing virtual learning from home to protect my grandmother from COVID," Red Bank High School football player Jaden Baccus said. "I didn't want anything to happen to her. I wanted to keep her safe."
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The Chattanooga Football Club refuses to go down in the National Independent Soccer Association league play so far this season.
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"I get antsy when I'm not playing sports. But one of the things I always tell myself is that I don't want to let a good game or a bad game define me."
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Although the Baylor School baseball team conceded two runs early to "mental mistakes" in the field, a jaw-dropping defensive play put the finishing touches on a series sweep of Brentwood Academy.
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"It could be just a pipe dream but in our opinion we need to look to continue to see where we are after a few weeks and reevaluate things then. We need our student-athletes to know we're going to do everything we can to try and save their season."
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Chattanooga will be under the spotlight as the National Independent Soccer Association will begin its 2021 spring season at Finley Stadium with the largest-ever professional soccer tournament held in the city
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Three players from
@baylorschool
's state championship baseball team have been selected to participate in
@USABaseball
's 16-under National Team Development Program.
@BaylorBase
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Whit Muschamp connects with Amari Jefferson on a 57-yard TD on third down and Baylor takes an early 7-0 lead over MBA
#bestofpreps
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Having already established herself as an elite coach on the state level, Baylor School veteran softball coach Kelli Smith has now been nationally recognized for her work.
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Ted Gatewood, a 1983 Red Bank graduate who was a Lions assistant the past three seasons, has been named the program's head coach.
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No. 1 seed Tennessee Wesleyan is the last team unbeaten in the 2019 Avista NAIA World Series in Lewiston, Idaho, thanks to Braden Mosley's three runs batted in Tuesday night against St. Thomas.
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Rhyne Howard's ability to change the game in every way possible has earned the Chattanooga native and former Bradley Central star her second straight Southeastern Conference Player of the Year award.
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JUST IN: A pair of Chattanooga-area prep basketball stars were recognized as the top players in the state's largest classification Tuesday evening.
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The Red Bank Lions started their 2023 football season in style.
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Losing to a 42-win national powerhouse that won its 10th state championship was nothing to hang heads about for a group who began the season 1-4.
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Thursday when The Associated Press announced its 2020 All-Americans for women's college basketball, Rhyne Howard wasn't left out.
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The Red Raiders' defense -- specifically junior cornerback Joshua Hampton -- managed to stop Brentwood Academy from covering the final 15 yards to the end zone, but only by the narrowest of margins.
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Bradley Central's Rhyne Howard has been named Class AAA Miss Basketball during an awards ceremony in Murfreesboro Tuesday night. Van Buren's Cade Mills was named Class A Mr. Basketball as well.
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Red Wolves soccer team owner hopes to score with his new East Ridge stadium by attracting visitors and residents to an array of restaurants, apartments, hotels, condominiums and stores to be built around the 5,500-seat facility.
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Led by former Baylor School star Reggie Upshaw, Jr., MTSU has won tournament games in back-to-back seasons
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Not even the emotion of a heated rivalry could bridge the Bradley Central girls' basketball team's talent and intensity gap Friday evening.
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Even the most optimistic version of Sean Patrick couldn't have dreamt up the outcomes of Trion High School's first two football games of the 2022 season.
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Chattanooga FC improved to 9-2-3 overall and 8-1-3 in the NISA to strengthen its position atop the East Division standings.
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Baylor School administrators have confirmed assistant football coach, and former Red Bank head coach Tim Daniels died suddenly Thursday evening of an apparent heart attack.
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For the first time in franchise history a Chattanooga Red Wolves SC player has been named the USL League One Player of the Week.
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The Chattanooga Football Club defeated Club De Lyon FC 3-2 Saturday evening in the NISA Independent Cup Southeast Regional final at Finley Stadium.
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Calvin Jackson is healthy again and proving why he's considered one of the top athletes not only in the Chattanooga area, but throughout the state.
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The Crownovers recently announced that after a combined 70-plus years of coaching Chattanooga-area prep athletes, they will retire at the end of the current spring sports season.
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Over the last 12 high school football seasons Bradley Central has been a model of consistency.
The goal in 2022 is to elevate their game to the next level.
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East Hamilton star Madison Hayes is more than a 13-hour flight away from home this week, representing the United States in the FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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BREAKING: McCallie's defense dominated throughout and its offense wore down MBA in the second half on the way to a victory that delivered the Blue Tornado the Division II-AAA BlueCross Bowl state title.
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Red Bank star athlete Calvin Jackson has committed to sign a football scholarship.
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McCallie was so impressive throughout the postseason that statewide sports writers have selected seven Blue Tornado players to the all-state team for 2020.
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Nick Fike's resilient Lions took down Knox Central to win the Heritage High School Christmas tournament on Wednesday.
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While Cleveland dominated District 5-AAA this past season, the Hurricanes — who went 14-14 overall in coach Andy Webb's first season — could be the team to look out for once basketball returns.
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Chattanooga's Ryan Martin battered and bruised Luis Eduardo Florez, eventually stopping the Colombian in the fourth round before a sellout crowd at the famed Avalon Theatre.
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Ranked fourth in the Associated Press state Division II-A high school poll, the Buccaneers want to remain true to their identity that began forming late in the summer of 2018 when coach Josh Templeton arrived.
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"Antonio was ready to play," Cleveland coach Reggie Tucker said. "I told him before the game, 'Hey, is the pit bull ready to play today?' He said, 'Coach, I am ready to bite.'"
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"I can still hear my dad say 'You're no better than anybody else and if you can't remember that you'll never amount to anything,'" said Tyner's Wayne Turner, one of the most successful and respected coaches in the history of Chattanooga prep football.
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The Generals earned their fourth consecutive region title Tuesday by sweeping Ridgeland 11-3 and 10-2 while keeping an eye on what it may take to win another state title in a revamped playoff schedule with fewer days off.
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The Lady Red Raiders hoisting a state championship trophy has certainly become the customary way to end any TSSAA Spring Fling, and on Thursday night they were dominant while earning a sixth consecutive Division II-AA title.
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UNCG built a five-run advantage going into the top of the seventh inning Saturday and was three outs from a winner-take-all game. True to their late-season surge, though, the Mocs battled back again.
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Blake Bryan is the Waffle House All-Star player of the week after throwing for 348 yards and five touchdowns.
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Silverdale Baptist Academy's Connor Delashmitt, a powerful and explosive 6-foot, 190-pound athlete, wasted no time putting on a show in last Friday's season opening victory over Webb School of Bell Buckle.
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After helping Dalton High School to a 23-0 state-championship season and setting a school record with 64 career assists, Wake Forest signee Omar Hernandez was selected as the Gatorade National Soccer Player of the Year on Tuesday.
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Cleveland's Tetoe Boyd ran over and through the Farragut defense for a career-high 332 yards on 36 carries in a dominating effort where he also forced a key defensive turnover late. That effort has earned Boyd Times Free Press Player of the Week honors.
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Other than uniform numbers, they are almost indistinguishable. The only thing more enduring than people's inability to tell Dawson and Dixon Riggins apart is the bond between the identical twins.
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Vic Beasley will be the featured speaker at this year's Times Free Press Best of Preps banquet.
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Baylor senior Henry Ford worked overtime on Sunday night — a one-on-one hitting session with co-head coach Mike Kinney that last until 11 p.m. — in preparation for Monday's rivalry game with a region title on the line.
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Bradley Central's Anna Muhonen spaced out Stone Memorial's defense to help her teammates put on an overwhelming shooting performance from 3-point range Wednesday night.
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When Madison Hayes takes to the court for the 2023-24 season, her third with the Wolfpack, one of the most decorated female basketball players to ever come out of Chattanooga will play with an added drive to honor the late Nikki McCray-Penson.
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Instead of spending Memorial Day on the lake or taking off, the Bears were the first team in the Chattanooga area to officially get back to practice.
"The time apart definitely showed what we took for granted on a daily basis," said Braydon Clark.
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Ryan Montgomery's transformation into a complete player during his senior season at Lee University has helped the Flames achieve unprecedented recognition.
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"I'll see scorekeepers before games asking to make sure that's really my name, and people always say something to me or ask me about it."
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McCallie was dominant from start to finish on both sides of the ball Thursday night on its way to a convincing win over Memphis University School to claim its second straight Division II-AAA BlueCross Bowl state championship.
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Maryville is still favored to win Region 2-6A, but Bradley Central may contend.
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