When a coach is also a father, what sport his child ends up playing seems a natural choice. But not so when dad coaches football and the child, in this case Boyd-Buchanan's Maddie Wright, is a girl.

Like mother, like son is not normally the way the saying goes. But what Arts & Sciences' JaVaughn Craig is doing these days is not normal, either.

Michael Murphy has enjoyed wrestling from the moment he first tried it as a second-grader at Lookout Mountain Elementary. “I liked seeing who was the best,” he said.

District 7-AA includes some longtime girls' basketball powers, and again it's one of the most rugged in the TSSAA. And its newest rising star is 5-foot-3 and 98 pounds.

The term "fifth-year senior" is associated with college athletics. The term "senior playing for a fifth year" could be rapidly becoming associated with TSSAA ahtletics, at least locally.

What Lookout Valley did Thursday at the start of the second half in its high school basketball game at Sale Creek made what it did at the end relevant.

When high school District 6-A holds its tournament-seeding meeting a week from today, the boys' coaches might just as well be drawing team names out of a hat.

Like last time when McCallie played Baylor in a TSSAA Division II-AA East/Middle Region basketball game at McCallie, Saturday’s game at Baylor was a tight one at the end. Like last time, and every time, school spirit was at a fever pitch.

Lookout Valley's Delaney Heathington was so excited about what happened Friday night, he flipped -- literally.

D'Mondta Smith doesn't appear to have much in the way of shortcomings when he's on a basketball court. Pressed into noting one, his Hixson High School coach, Alex Disbrow, said, "I've had to talk him into shooting more."