Tag Archives: Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Association

Oak Ridge-native and former basketball coach now serves as athletic director November 13, 2020 Oak Ridge runs as deep in the veins of Scott Hinton as does the ‘Secret City’s’ mythical reputation for its help in the Manhattan Project to assist the United States’ triumph in World War II. Hinton’s …

Schools see significant classification changes for upcoming two-year cycle November 6, 2020 Bernard Childress’ history stretches a quarter-century with the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association. Championship relocations. Playoff expansions. Public schools with private schools; vice versa. But Childress, TSSAA’s veteran executive director, doesn’t have any basis for something quite like …

As an undergraduate student, Alex Diamond was tangentially intertwined with one of college athletics’ grandest basketball programs. Today, in 2020, Dr. Alex Diamond has been intricately involved in developing the return-to-play guidelines amidst the COVID-19 pandemic for both the National Federation of High School Sports (NFHS) and the Tennessee Secondary …

Follow teams all season at TSSAAsports.com August 19, 2020 The much anticipated start of the high school football season is this week and as many as 120 games will be played during Week 1, five of which will be played on Thursday. As we all know, “Friday Night Lights” may …

Decision effective with upcoming two year classification cycle August 17, 2020 At their meeting on Monday, August 17, the Board voted on the number of classes in each sport in Division I and Division II for the next two-year cycle. The biggest change seen in the structure of classification was …

July 22, 2020 Tennessee now has a roadmap for both high school football and girls’ soccer in the fall. Convening its Board of Control Wednesday in Murfreesboro, the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association (TSSAA) approved measures to outline the potential for a nearly complete football and girls’ soccer season. The …

Classification plans to be discussed at study session July 20, 2020 The TSSAA Board of Control will meet on Wednesday, July 22 at Siegel High School at 1:00 p.m. CST. The meeting will be a study session to discuss possible classification plans for the next classification cycle. The meeting will …

July 8, 2020 The TSSAA Board of Control held a special called meeting on Wednesday, July 8, 2020 to discuss plans for the upcoming football and girls’ soccer seasons due to the extended COVID-19 State of Emergency that is set to expire on August 29. Bernard Childress, Executive Director of …

Multiple options for Football considered with plan to extend season for Girls’ Soccer July 1, 2020 The TSSAA Board of Control held a special called meeting on Wednesday, July 1, 2020 to discuss the effect that the extended COVID-19 State of Emergency will have on contact sports in the fall. …

Practices, scrimmages and competitions impacted for contact sports this fall June 30, 2020 Executive Director Bernard Childress sent the following memo to member schools on Tuesday regarding the status of high school athletics amidst the Governor’s latest State of Emergency order. Yesterday, the Governor’s office extended Tennessee’s COVID-19 State of Emergency until …