The first two times Grace Academy traveled to Murfreesboro for the Class A boys’ state basketball tournament, the Golden Eagles brought home a silver ball.

Tennessee Temple senior Jarrod Johnson has extra incentive to help the Crusaders reach the Class A state basketball semifinals.

At the beginning of its first full season playing home matches at the Greater Cleveland Soccer Complex, the Cleveland High School boys’ team decided to share its new facility with seven others.

The last time Brandon Andrews came to Clay County High School, he was a Tennessee Temple freshman who could only watch from the bench as the Crusaders ended their season in the Class A state basketball sectionals.

CELINA, Tenn. — The Tennessee Temple Academy boys’ basketball team advanced to the Class A state tournament for the seventh time in eight seasons with a 64-50 victory over Clay County tonight.

To call Saturday night’s Class A girls’ basketball state sectional game at Arts & Sciences a defensive struggle would be an understatement.

Forty-one seconds into the second half of Thursday night’s Region 3-A basketball championship game, Grace Academy got the opportunity to practice what the Golden Eagles have been preaching.

After Arts & Sciences won its first Region 3-A girls’ basketball championship last season, coach Clay Martin surprised his players with a dousing from the team’s water cooler.

Boyd-Buchanan soccer coach Dustin Walker needed a satellite phone to keep up with the Buccaneers’ run to last season’s Class A/AA state final four.

Heading into the locker room Tuesday night, Tennessee Temple knew if something didn’t change for the second half, it might be the Crusaders’ last time to make that trip.

With all the pressure that comes with region semifinal basketball, no one could blame Grace Academy for getting frustrated Tuesday evening against South Pittsburg.

Copper Basin had the lead for most of its Region 3-A girls’ basketball semifinal game Monday, but it took until the final minutes for the District 5 champions to put Tennessee Temple away.

With its comfortable halftime lead reduced to four points, Chattanooga Christian’s season could have come to an end against a hard-charging McMinn Central team in the second half of Saturday’s Region 3-AA boys’ basketball semifinal. Instead, the Chargers came together.

Once her 3-point shot fell through the net with 3:46 remaining in Friday’s first-round state tournament game, Gordon Lee’s Lesslie Bohannon gave two quick fist pumps as the Lady Trojans’ basketball fans rose to their feet.

When Hamilton Heights headed into overtime earlier this season against eventual District 6-AAA basketball champion Ooltewah, Hawks coach Michael Stone had no idea his team’s performance that night would lead to him leaving his alma mater.

Jeremy Sexton began his senior basketball season at Tennessee Temple with one goal: to win a Class A championship.

Copper Basin’s first-half blowout turned into a nail-biter in the fourth quarter of Saturday afternoon’s District 5-A girls’ basketball semifinal.

One year after the best season in school history, the Arts & Sciences’ girls basketball team could very well be on the brink of an even better one.

Look for the Tennessee Temple Academy basketball teams to be a little more excited than usual when they take the court for the District 5-A tournament this weekend.

After graduating a group of seven seniors who led Arts & Sciences to two Class A basketball sectionals and one state final, most everyone expected this to be a rebuilding year for CSAS.

After two tough games with LaFayette during the regular season, the Ridgeland boys’ basketball team expected nothing less when the teams met again Friday night.

Even though she plays basketball for one of the area’s smallest schools, Hamilton Heights Christian Academy senior Raven Hunt has spent the past five years proving she can compete with anyone.

Four players who were four-year starters for the Hixson girls’ soccer team signed this week to continue their careers at four-year colleges.

Each time Grace Academy started to pull away, Arts & Sciences came storming back.

The Baylor girls’ soccer team added two more college signees this afternoon when seniors Sarah Gawthrop and Cydney Parkes signed to continue their careers.

The Grace Academy girls’ basketball players didn’t know it, but a win over Tennessee Temple at home Friday wasn’t all they needed.

For nearly a year, Baylor senior Caroline Scales has known where she was going to play college soccer.

Thursday night’s win did much more for the South Pittsburg boys’ basketball team than simply avenge an earlier loss to Signal Mountain.

Leah Wilson spent five years playing soccer for one of the state’s top high school girls’ programs, and for the next phase of her career, the Chattanooga Christian School senior will compete for a national power.

An undefeated District 6-A regular season didn’t lead to a tournament championship for the Arts & Sciences girls’ basketball team last yaer.

On a night when he was honored as one of the nation’s top high school basketball players, Tennessee Temple senior Jeremy Sexton showed why.

Whitwell girls’ basketball coach Eric Zensen drew up a play he thought could win Tuesday night’s game against Lookout Valley, but his players had just 2.2 seconds to execute it.

Before his senior season with the East Ridge High School soccer team begins, Tyler Boyd already has his college plans in order.

When asked to describe Lookout Valley’s April McCann, the first word to cross one opposing basketball coach’s mind is “nightmare.”

Back-to-back steals early in the first quarter set the tone for Chattanooga Christian in Tuesday night’s District 6-AA boys’ basketball game against Marion County.

A quick start and some long shots kept Friday night’s rivalry game at Tennessee Temple from ever looking like one.

Take a glance at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s record book for women’s soccer, and Diana Jallo’s name is hard to miss.

When Baylor lost in the quarterfinals of the 2004 state volleyball tournament, Lara Newberry thought she had played her last match.

An eight-point loss in its own tournament wasn’t the way the Grace Academy boys’ basketball team wanted to start the new year.

The goal for the McMinn Central girls in Friday’s Times Free Press Best of Preps basketball tournament was to press, press and then press some more.

The Baylor boys’ basketball team was winless coming into the Times Free Press Best of Preps tournament, while Grace Academy hadn’t lost a game.

GPS freshman Chaddaryl Clay got her first taste of the Bruisers’ rivalry with Baylor on Thursday, and in the third quarter she learned what kind of intensity to expect from coach Susan Crownover during those games.

Howard’s Walter McGary and Grace Academy’s Jon Mattheiss are the only two high school boys’ basketball coaches who can claim to have led their team to a Times Free Press Best of Preps tournament championship.

After 10 seasons and two state championships, Jimmy Weekley is stepping down as head boys’ soccer coach at Baylor School.

An injury-plagued Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe team made it to the finals of last year’s Times Free Press Best of Preps girls’ basketball tournament.

Five area high school players who were named to the all-tournament teams at this year’s state volleyball championships are honored today as all-state selections, and two others from the area join them on the teams released by the Tennessee Sports Writers Association.

Before last summer, Lookout Valley’s April McCann and Tennessee Temple’s Candace Dyer knew each other only as opponents.

When Heather Parman and Christina Teter took a recruiting visit to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, the high school volleyball standouts didn’t just come away knowing where they wanted to continue their careers

The District 5-A basketball rivalry is about to become a little more heated.

Grace Academy’s Patrick Shaughnessy had his pick of basketball scholarship offers from 10 NCAA Division I colleges.