When Collierville's star quarterback Aiden Glover suffered an injury in the second quarter of Friday night's (Sept. 30) contest against Germantown, head coach Joe Rocconi knew the talent backup quarterback Logan Johns possessed.
And Johns put those skills on full...
Southwind’s 20-14 victory over 5A district rival Central was proof positive that a team’s fortunes can change dramatically from one year to the next.
Last season, the Jaguars won two games and lost eight, including a 55-6 drubbing by Central’s...
At 5-0, the Fairley High School football team is surging behind the leadership of head coach Frederick Copeland.
The Bulldogs entered the 2022 season with lofty expectations, despite losing key members from last year’s team that advanced to the second...
After the Collierville High School football team defeated White Station 37-6 last Friday (Sept. 2), head coach Joe Rocconi realized, while his team constructed a dominant effort in the victory, they were nowhere close to perfect.
“We made a lot...
Germantown’s Red Devils and Whitehaven’s Tigers – “two good teams coming with hard knocks football” – have set an early-season standard for crowd-pleasing, down-to-the-wire competition.
In an instant classic, Germantown (3-0, 1-0 16AAA) snatched victory from the Tigers (2-1, 0-1...
Platform Basketball Camp recently hosted its third annual invitation-only camp featuring area prep athletes trying to catch and/or maximize the attention of college scouts.
The camp brought together some of the best players – ninth grade through 12th grade –...
Winless over the course of 40 games and nearly five years, the Hamilton Wildcats football team has found its way to victory.
Jerel Blanchard, Hamilton’s first-year, head coach, didn’t hang his head after the Wildcats dropped their opener – a...
The opening contest of the 2022 high school football season for the Memphis Academy of Science and Engineering Phoenix could not have been scripted better for the squad.
Led by first-year head coach Cedric Miller, who transitioned over from now-closed...
The 15th annual Whitehaven Classic – a three-game affair that kicked off the high school football season – was an early proving ground with Douglass, Mitchell and Whitehaven emerging as winners.
Douglass defeated Westwood 12-6; Mitchell stopped Hamilton 20-6 and...
Memphis-area high schools have completed pre-season practices, with games that count toward aspirations of players, coaches, and fans set to begin this week.
The season kicks off with games to be played on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
The annual jamboree, which...