"It's probably a foot in diameter. And then when you look down in it, it's gargantuan. It's dangerous. Those people down there inspecting it now, we're going to be throwing them a lifeline if they get too close. ... I've never seen anything like this … [Read more...]
2019 All-5Star Preps Baseball Teams – First and Second Teams
The 2019 All-5Star Preps Baseball Teams How We Select Teams: The 5Star Preps coverage area encompasses a 60-school wide footprint. During the season, we cover as many of the top teams, important games and outlying schools as we can, so to get a … [Read more...]
Maryville RB Tee Hodge commits to Tennessee, joins recent surge of local pledges
The local commits just keep turning up orange lately. Tee Hodge, a powerful senior running back from Maryville High School, announced his verbal commitment to Tennessee on Friday afternoon. The Vols made Hodge's top 9 schools when he posted … [Read more...]
2019 All-5Star Preps Baseball Coach of the Year: Matt Buckner, Farragut
Matt Buckner doesn't wear his emotions on his sleeve often. When you're coaching more than 40 games in a season, you can't succumb to the peaks and valleys that your feelings can create. But when his Farragut High School baseball team reaches … [Read more...]
2019 All-5Star Preps Baseball Pitcher of the Year: Ryan Hagenow, Farragut
Sometimes, Ryan Hagenow misses stepping into the batter's box. Well more than a year has passed since he last logged an official at-bat during a varsity game. Once a shortstop, Hagenow's path in baseball offered him more of a future throwing … [Read more...]
2019 All-5Star Preps Baseball Player of the Year: Jacob Tate, CAK
Jacob Tate saw his potential as a pitcher a long time ago. So did his father, Scott. Jacob was showing signs of being tall and strong. And he’s a left-hander. Baseball and pithing became Jacob’s world. “My dad was kind of telling me, … [Read more...]
All 5Star Preps Tennis Teams and Superlatives (2019)
Check out all the 5Star Preps selections, players of the year and coaches of the year below … [Read more...]
2019 All-5Star Preps Boys and Girls Tennis Teams
All-5Star Preps Boys Tennis Team - 2019 FIRST TEAM Ohm Sharma, senior, Webb School: Sharma played No. 1 singles as the Spartans won their third consecutive Division II-A state title and the program’s eighth overall state title. The 5Star Preps … [Read more...]
2019 All-5Star Preps Tennis Coaches of the Year
Gatlinburg-Pittman’s A.J. Bennett and L&N STEM Academy’s Stephen Blythe got their jobs as head tennis coaches almost by default about a year ago, but it’s all worked out just fine. Both will be back as their schools’ tennis coaches in … [Read more...]
2019 All-5Star Preps Boys Tennis Player of the Year: Ohm Sharma, Webb
Ohm Sharma managed the tasks of being a leader for the Webb School of Knoxville boys’ tennis team for the past four seasons. The 2019 graduate moved into the No. 1 singles spot as a freshman, when he lost a match that motivated him the next three … [Read more...]