Youth sports

It just may be the best kept secret in town. They’re no threat to famed local eatery Aubrey’s just yet, but Teresa Prestridge, Heather Breazeale and Brandi Denman are just getting started. Fundraising is vital for youth football programs like ...

Fifty Blount County children, ages 4 to 14, got to learn the finer points of soccer from some of the best coaches in the world when Challenger Sports British Soccer Camp was held in Alcoa earlier this summer. Kevin Shockley, ...

Village Green claimed the championship of the Smoky Mountain Invitation swim meet over the weekend at Springbrook Pool. Better than 1,400 swimmers representing 27 teams took part in the two-day meet, considered the world’s largest for summer-only swimmers. The Gulf ...

The 38th annual Smoky Mountain Invitational swim meet is scheduled for this weekend at Springbrook Pool in Alcoa. The largest outdoor swim meet in the United States, the invitational for summer-only swimmers begins Saturday at 9 a.m. for competitors 11 ...

The inaugural All-Blount County Middle School Wrestling Team was announced recently, with 14 grapplers being honored. Team members were selected by finishing highest in their respective weight classes at the East Tennessee Middle School Conference Championships held Jan. 22 at ...

The girls’ game was over fairly early. Player of the year Tara Shields pumped in a game-high 15 points, and Alcoa clamped down defensively in the second and third quarters to defeat Heritage going away, 41-15, in the finals of ...

Raina Karras was a diamond in the rough at the start of the season. Last Thursday night at Heritage Middle School, the Mary Blount Elementary forward became a champion. Karras sank three consecutive layups in the closing minutes of the ...

It was one of those games where neither team deserved to lose. You just hoped someone would win. Finally, illustrating the distinction between the two, Fairview did. Evan Porter’s 1-yard run on fourth-and-goal in double overtime lifted the Raiders to ...

The Blount United Soccer Club U12 Hammers, based in Maryville, needed overtime to win the championship of the Appalachian Fall Festival Soccer Tournament in Kingsport recently. With the score tied 1-1 at the end of regulation, Sean Snelgrove put in ...

The Alcoa Middle School girls’ soccer team defeated Halls, 2-0, to win the Smoky Mountain Middle School Soccer Division D tournament at the US Cellular Soccer Complex in Knoxville on Sunday. Eighth-grader McKenzie Hawkins scored both goals in the championship ...

Perhaps the most entertaining running back of our time. Over the top for an eighth-grader? Of course it is, but then so was the totally gangsta, goal-line pirouette Dylan Shinsky used to slip a would-be Sevierville Middle School tackler in ...

Coaching at the Grasshopper level, particularly at a smaller program like the Eagleton Knights, comes with its on unique set of challenges, but Knights coach Bobby Carmichael wouldn’t have it any other way. “This is fun,” he said. “It’s the ...

It wasn’t looking good for Fairview. In an early season showdown with defending Midgets champion Maryville on Tuesday at Everett Recreation Center, the Raiders were facing fourth-and-15 from just over midfield with less than a minute remaining. The Rebs held ...

Fellow eighth-graders Ashland Cooper and Kasi Knight made Union Grove Middle School history this week with a pair of back-to-back home runs in an 11-1 win over Alcoa.

The Smoky Mountain Athletic Conference championship could prove a close-run thing this season. Member teams made their 2010 debut at the Blount County Middle School Jamboree last Saturday morning at Heritage High School. The defending champion Maryville Middle Bulldogs got ...