By JESSE SMITHEY It's commonplace in today's high school football landscape for incoming freshmen to not only play meaningful varsity minutes but also make huge impacts. Tommy Winton and Keondre Jarmon showed that while playing for Catholic in … [Read more...]
CAK basketball hires new boys coach from North Carolina ranks
By JESSE SMITHEY Replacing Shane Wells was never going to be easy. But the CAK boys' basketball team has moved forward and found its new head coach, who will hop the border from North Carolina into Tennessee to head up the Warriors program. … [Read more...]
Austin-East football promotes assistant Antonio Mays to head coach
By JESSE SMITHEY The Austin-East football program has its new head coach, and he knows the program well. … [Read more...]
Division I basketball prospect transferring from The King’s Academy
By JESSE SMITHEY The King’s Academy girls’ basketball program, which came up just shy in the Division II-A state championships game in March, will be without its best player in the 2020-21 season. … [Read more...]
Early Look into the Class of 2022 football prospects from the 5SP area
By JESSE SMITHEY The Class of 2022 is halfway to graduation, and its depth of area football talent continues to expand. While we won't construct a Top 25 players list from the Class of 2022 until after their junior seasons, we do want to offer … [Read more...]
Q & A with Oak Ridge football coach Joe Gaddis
By MIKE BLACKERBY Oak Ridge’s Joe Gaddis is one of a handful of high school football coaches in the state of Tennessee to win more than 300 games during his career. At age 68, he shows no signs of slowing down or having a desire to do anything else … [Read more...]
Greeneville football coach Dan Hammonds resigns after one season
By JESSE SMITHEY Greeneville football coach Dan Hammonds took to Twitter on Sunday night to shake up the coaching ranks in East Tennessee. … [Read more...]
5STAR NOTES: Grace Christian Academy, Scott make hires, TSSAA news, athlete signings and more
By JESSE SMITHEY Much happens across the course of a week of high school athletes. But sometimes, we can't give everything a headline. So in this week's 5Star Notes, we take a look at: New basketball coaches at Grace Christian Academy … [Read more...]
Expectations high as TKA Football returns 18 of 22 starters for 2020 season
By DAVE LINK It’s early in summer workouts but expectations are already high in The King’s Academy football program. Lions coach Jonathan Sellers isn’t shying away from it. “We’re extremely optimistic about how this group is going to be as … [Read more...]
South-Doyle tabs Ryan Ross as the school’s new boys’ basketball coach
By JESSE SMITHEY The South-Doyle administration moved swiftly in hiring its new boys' basketball coach. Roughly two weeks after Brian Stewart resigned after six seasons with the Cherokees, athletics director Clark Duncan announced the hiring of … [Read more...]