The Joey Christian era as head coach of Dobyns-Bennett football kicks off Friday night with arguably the toughest game on the Indians’ schedule.
The business world may want to keep its eye on Church hill 7th-grader Myka Coward whose lemonade stand fundraiser to benefit fellow students has increased its profits more than 4,560 percent in the past five years.
Dobyns-Bennett enters the season as an early favorite to win the Big 6 Conference volleyball title, although every contest this season is seen as a competitive matchup.
“I feel we can make some big noise in the Big 7 and are looking for big things this season. We’re not going to rebuild. I hate that word ‘rebuild.’ We’re going to build on to what we have and make it really successful.”
The proposed fix is to drill down with auger type piers until they reach bedrock, which is about 32 feet, to create a new foundation for the Volunteer High School press box building.
Bill Craddock, who received a high school diploma Thursday in Rogersville, is also invited to walk with the Volunteer High School Class of 2019 next spring, and receive his diploma again in an official graduation ceremony.
Track athletes from both Cherokee and Volunteer high schools who qualified for the state meet this year were honored Thursday by the Hawkins County Board of Education, as were TMSAA state track meet qualifiers from Church Hill Middle and Surgoinsville Middle.
When Hawkins County Special Olympics chairperson Christy Thacker began working with Gabe Morelock in middle school, he was still very introverted, and rarely smiled or engaged his teachers and classmates.
The team earned an invitation to the June 25-29 national competition on March 19-21 when Volunteer's Criminal Justice SkillsUSA Chapter earned a total of 14 medals, including eight gold, at the state competition in Chattanooga.
Last week the Volunteer rifle team took first place in the NRA Junior Standing National Air Rifle Championships overall competition, with team Captain Jaden-Ann Fraser leading the team en route to another individual shooter national championship. Fraser then won another national title in the Junior Olympics.
Gabe Morelock was recently selected to compete in the Special Olympics USA Games July 1-6 in Seattle, Wash. He is only the second VHS student in school history to compete in the Special Olympics USA Games. Zac Bear was in the 2014 games in New Jersey.
Volunteer High School NJROTC recently received notice that they have achieved the coveted distinction of being named a Distinguished Unit for the 10th consecutive year, and a Distinguished Unit with Academic Honors for the 6th consecutive year.
Brogan Beckner and Jeremiah Ball combined to give up just one hit, Dobyns-Bennett swatted 11 hits and the Indians took an 11-1 win over Cherokee on Friday in the District 1-AAA tournament.
Dobyns-Bennett capitalized on a single pitch Friday in the opening round of the District 1-AAA softball tournament, and the result was a 1-0 upset of host Science Hill.
For the 2018-19 school year Emily Christian will not only be the first ever SkillsUSA Tennessee president from Hawkins County, she is the first SkillsUSA president from Northeast Tennessee.
