High School Sports

Lionel Messi could have been out there for Maryville and he would have been asked to step aside. “When Kyle (drew) that PK, I walked up to him and said, ‘You know this has got to be Austin,’” Maryville midfielder ...

Stephen Bailes and Talon Brown both say they typically skip breakfast. We didn’t ask about lunch. Bailes, 6-foot-5, 285 pounds, and Brown, 6-5, 290, are two parts of what is sure to be a sizable offensive line for the Heritage ...

Josh Stephens paused briefly when reading through a list of Kara Crowe’s accomplishments the last four years. “There’s a lot of this,” the Alcoa athletics director cautioned a gathering in the lobby of the school’s gymnasium last Friday, “which is ...

The audition was a smash. Heritage coach Brint Russell believes Carson-Newman will be even more impressed with Evan Brown once it gets the speedy Mountaineer pass rusher on campus this fall. Brown signed a National Letter of Intent with the ...

You can always tell when they make it to the awards stand. When Shawn Morgan got there last Saturday night, he smiled. He smiled a lot. Minutes earlier, the Maryville High School senior had fallen, 9-3, in the championship match ...

The Brown University football team had a good year last season, finishing in a three-way tie with Harvard and Yale for second place in the Ivy League. The Bears (6-4) could have lost them all and it would have made ...

The scary thing is Gary Rankin is a long way from being done. The 2011 TSSAA Hall of Fame inductees have been selected, the association announced in a release on Tuesday. Included in this year’s 12-member class is Alcoa’s Rankin, ...

Bradley Central hit Region 3 wrestling like a tsunami with reclassifications a year ago. Last Saturday, Shawn Morgan hit back. The Maryville senior shocked Central’s Patrick Benson, 6-4, in the region championship match at Stone Memorial. Benson entered the state’s ...

It’s called a superman. Aim a motorcycle at a dirt-ramp jump. Gas it. When you leave the ramp, let go of the handlebars and grab hold of the seat as the bike goes sailing by beneath you. You’ve gotta be ...

Heritage waited 34 years to crown its first state champion. Brittney Ensley was worth the wait. An engaging story of perseverance in her own right, the Lady Mountaineer senior delivered the second best performance in state tournament history in winning ...

Spring can’t come soon enough for many area residents, William Blount softball coach Amanda Leatherwood most assuredly among them, and all the snow dumped on Blount County in recent weeks has got nothing to do with it. When softball season ...

If you plan to live on campus, tuition for The McCallie School for boys in Chattanooga is an absolutely smokin’ $37,955 a year. You can knock it down to $20,245 if you commute. Books for advanced placement high school classes ...

Grant Daugherty is having the kind of junior year most high school athletes dream about. The Alcoa High School ace won the Class A/AA state golf tournament at WillowBrook Golf Club in Manchester in October. Last week, Daugherty gave a ...

The Blount Today Sports Radio Pep Rally on the Patio events in October and November drew the community out to support all four high school teams at different venues and for different games. Two recent pep rallies brought the Maryville ...

It began largely as a curiosity for Lindy McGuire. What followed a little while later was “the most accomplished” four years of high school golf any Alcoa player has ever known. McGuire fulfilled a long-held goal when she signed a ...