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Siegel girls basketball hires Bryan Weakley as coach - Leaves Forrest Boys to return to Murfreesboro

Wild resigns as girls basketball coach, AD at Santa Fe after one season BY MAURICE PATTON

Wild named girls coach at Forrest in Chapel Hill

Hal Murrell has been hired as the new Summit girls’ basketball coach, the school announced today.

Murrell was the girls’ coach at Forrest High School (Chapel Hill).

He’s also coached at Columbia & Dickson Co. among others.

He replaces John Wild, who departed for a coaching & AD position at Santa Fe.

May 9, 2023

And just saw Hal Murrell is the new girls coach at Forrest.

Any word on Forrest in Chapel Hill? Both the girls & boys head coaching jobs went up on the TSSAA bulletin board 9 days ago. Coach Bishop coached both teams last season.

Any word on Forrest in Chapel Hill? Both the boys & girls head coaching jobs went up on the TSSAA bulletin board 9 days ago. Coach Bishop coached both teams last season.

Didn't know if they would maybe go a little more north/south with some of the schools this time...

Would this be a close guess? Looks like maybe Houston Co. & Adamsville could go a couple different ways.

 

Reg 4

Trousdale Co.

East Robertson

Westmoreland

Watertown

Jackson Co.

Clarksville Acad.

Houston Co.

 

Reg 5

Forrest

Community

Eagleville

Cascade

Columbia Acad.

Loretto

Summertown

 

Reg 6

Adamsville

Scotts Hill

Decatur Co. Riverside

Lewis Co.

Waverly

Hickman Co.

East Hickman

The 2015-2016 regional football alignments shown below are recommendations prepared by the TSSAA staff.  They will be presented to the Board of Control on Thursday, November 13, 2014.  No part of these recommendations are final until approved by the Board of Control.

 

Region 1

Cloudland

Concord Christian

Greenback

Hancock Co.

Unaka

 

Region 2

Coalfield

Harriman

Jellico

Midway

Oakdale

Oneida

Sunbright

 

Region 3

Copper Basin

Grace Baptist Academy

Lookout Valley

Sale Creek

South Pittsburg

Whitwell

 

Region 4

Columbia Academy

Cornersville

Fayetteville

Huntland

Moore Co.

Mt. Pleasant

Richland

Summertown

 

Region 5

Clay Co.

Gordonsville

Jo Byrns

Middle Tennessee Christian

Monterey

Nashville Christian

Pickett Co.

Red Boiling Springs

Trousdale Co.

 

Region 6

Clarksville Academy

Collinwood

Hollow Rock-Bruceton

Houston Co.

Huntingdon

McEwen

Perry Co.

Wayne Co.

 

Region 7

Dresden

Gleason

Greenfield

Humboldt

Lake Co.

Peabody

South Fulton

Union City

West Carroll

 

Region 8

B. T. Washington

George Washington Carver

KIPP Memphis Collegiate School

Memphis Middle College

Memphis Northside

Middleton

W.E.B. Dubois

The 2015-2016 regional football alignments shown below are recommendations prepared by the TSSAA staff.  They will be presented to the Board of Control on Thursday, November 13, 2014.  No part of these recommendations are final until approved by the Board of Control.

 

Region 1

Cosby

Cumberland Gap

Gatlinburg-Pittman

Hampton

Happy Valley

North Greene

South Greene

Sullivan North

 

Region 2

Austin-East

Grace Christian Academy

Oliver Springs

Rockwood

Sweetwater

Tellico Plains

Wartburg

 

Region 3

Bledsoe Co.

Boyd Buchanan

Brainerd

Marion Co.

Meigs Co.

Polk Co.

Silverdale Baptist Academy

Tyner Academy

 

Region 4

Cascade

Community

Eagleville

East Robertson

Forrest

Jackson Co.

Watertown

Westmoreland

 

Region 5

Decatur Co. Riverside

Hickman Co.

Lewis Co.

Loretto

Scotts Hill

Waverly

 

Region 6

Adamsville

Gibson Co.

Halls

Jackson Christian

McKenzie

Trinity Christian Academy

 

Region 7

Frederick Douglass

Hillcrest

Martin Luther King, Jr. Prep

Memphis Academy of Health Sciences

Trezevant

 

Region 8

Fairley

Manassas

Mitchell

Oakhaven

Westwood

From what I was told...

 

Friday, August 15th

 

Riverdale 9th vs. Forrest JV @ 6:00 2 quarters

Forrest vs. Huntland @ 7:00 1 qtr

Huntland vs. Fayetteville @ 7:30 1 qtr

Fayetteville vs. Forrest @ 8:00 1 qtr

Is Forrest/Chapel Hill having a jamboree this year? Schedule?

Saw last night Coach Chris Parker announced he was leaving Forrest to be the head coach at East Hickman. Said job was closer to his Dickson home.

 

Any ideas on who'd be interested in Forrest job since school's about to start? Coach Henson at Forrest maybe?

 

Forrest job posted on TSSAA:

BB -  Forrest High School (Chapel Hill, TN) has an immediate opening for a Personal Finance/Driver’s Education /Head Baseball Coach. Deadline is ASAP. Apply online at https://www.siestaon-line.com/apps/ja4702670.aspx or call Julie B. Thomas, H.R. Coordinato: (931) 359-1581, Ext. 2028. (07/30/2014)

Actually, it will reduce the overall number of public teams, which will then be divided according to whatever plan ( if not changed, divided into three equal divisions ) is agreed upon by TSSAA.

 

Agree that this is how they'd do it, but always wondered if there is any rule that says they have to have equal divisions?

Let's say after dividing into 3 divisions, there are 12 schools (just picking a number) at the bottom of Class AA that are a lot closer in enrollment to the Class A schools than school 13.

Why not just keep them in Class A? And do the same with dividing the AA to AAA classes.

If it makes the enrollments more balanced, and it's workable when dividing up the regions, is it that big a deal if Class A had 12 more schools or Class AAA had 14 fewer?

If there were a split, the school I back would only have two games against other local privates in town.  We would be spending half of our season traveling to Memphis or Nashville to play against other privates.  Nope, not a bunch of travel savings there.  Have you looked at the TSSAA D2A playoff brackets?  You could be traveling across the state for an early round playoff game.  Travel savings there?  Nope, I don't see any.

 

 

If you are in Jackson, I counted 11 Memphis schools that would probably be Class A in a two-class, completely split Division II. It 's all speculation but my guess is they'd keep 7 of those together and pair 4 of them with Jackson privates. I dont think 2 trips to Memphis per year in the regular season, then to Memphis or Nashville in the playoffs, would ruin any Jackson teams.

 

 

Read it again. A full split and there's no such first round or regular season travel. CPA, Nashville Christian etc would all be potential west bracket opponents. You could have a Knoxville group, a Chattanooga group, a midstate group, 2 Nashville groups, a Jackson-Memphis group then a Memphis group. That would make for a ton of exciting playoff games.

 

 

What Indian is saying is sort of what I was thinking. If it would work out that way for a Jackson school, for example, with only a couple trips to Memphis a year and fill out the rest of your team's regular season with more local schools, isn't that fairly reasonable overall travel?

Using Yahoo maps, its 88 miles from Jackson to Memphis.

 

We know about travel too. As it is now, the school I back (Forrest) has been making regular season non-region trips to places like Collinwood (82 miles), Perry Co. (76 miles), White House Heritage (72 miles) & Clarksville Acad. (94 miles) in recent years anyway. And one of our traditional region rivals is Huntland (58 miles).

And the new proposals without a split have us looking at trips to Smith Co. (80 miles) & Jackson Co. (112 miles).

 

If nothing else it would be interesting to see how a full public private split would look on paper and see what affect it would have on travel.

 

 

Whether there is a public/private split or not, the one thing I've never fully understood is why the D1 privates are so strongly opposed to it? It seems like they don't want to play with other private schools just as bad as the public schools. Wouldn't they be joining with schools that they have more in common with than the publics? And probably would have less regular season travel and be able to build stronger local rivalries since most are in the bigger cities.

 

I'm guessing finanacial aid is the main reason, but is whatever aid Davidson Acad. gives really giving it a big advantage over Goodpasture? Is whatever aid FRA & DCA provide giving them a big advantage over CPA?

 

It won't happen, but do the split, divide public schools into A, AA, & AAA and the privates into small & large. 5 state champs is enough for TN. That number seems to work for most of the sports now anyway and would preserve the local rivalries. Plus we wouldn't have to change playoff systems every few years.

 

And the publics & privates can still play each other if they want...in regular season non-region games.

08-21-2009 Cascade at Davidson Academy

08-21-2009 Lewis Co. at Mt. Pleasant

Cornersville - Forrest final score?

Great read ptguard12!

With Forrest & Cornersville in A and MCHS in AA, its been an outstanding year so far for women's basketball in Marshall County.

Huntland and Moore County back in with old rivals Cascade and Forrest.

Class AA

 

District 8

 

Cannon Co. (3A)

 

Smith Co. (3A)

 

Upperman (3A)

 

York (3A)

 

DeKalb Co. (4A)

 

Livingston Academy (4A)

 

District 9

 

Goodpasture (3A)

 

Westmoreland (3A)

 

Greenbrier (4A)

 

Macon Co. (4A)

 

Sycamore (4A)

 

White House (4A)

 

District 10

 

CPA (3A)

 

East Literature (3A)

 

MLK

 

Pearl-Cohn (3A)

 

Hume-Fogg

 

David Lipscomb (4A)

 

Maplewood (4A)

 

Stratford (4A)

 

Whites Creek (4A)

 

District 11

 

Camden (3A)

 

Cheatham Co. (3A)

 

Harpeth (3A

 

Stewart Co. (3A)

 

Waverly (3A)

 

Creek Wood (4A)

 

Monterey (4A)

 

District 12

 

East Hickman (3A)

 

Fairview (3A)

 

Hickman Co. (3A)

 

Lewis Co. (3A)

 

Giles Co. (4A)

 

Marshall Co. (4A)

 

Page (4A)

 

Spring Hill (4A)

Class A Prep Districts set for 2009-13 from Tennessean.com

 

MURFREESBORO ?€“ The Board of Control of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association approved the Division I Class A districts this morning at its board meeting.

 

In Class A, Districts 7 and 8 will unite and form a nine-team region football schedule because there are so few teams in that area playing football.

 

The region schedule includes Clay County, Monterey, Pickett County, Jackson County, Gordonsville, Red Boiling Springs, Friendship, Trousdale County and Watertown.

 

Districts 11 and 12 will form an eight-team football region, including Columbia Academy, Cornersville, Mt. Pleasant, Richland, Collinwood, Perry County, Wayne County and Loretto.

 

Check back later for more updates as other classes are approved.

 

Theses districts are for football, basketball, baseball, softball and volleyball:

 

Class A

 

District 7

 

Clarkrange

 

Clay Co. (1A)

 

Monterey (1A)

 

Pickett Co. (1A)

 

Jackson Co. (2A)

 

District 8

 

Gordonsville (1A)

 

Red Boiling Springs (1A)

 

Friendship (2A)

 

Trousdale County (2A)

 

Watertown (2A)

 

District 9

 

Boyd Chr.

 

Eagleville (1A)

 

Huntland (1A)

 

Middle Tennessee Christian (1A)

 

Moore Co. (1A)

 

Cascade (2A)

 

Community (2A)

 

Forrest (2A)

 

District 10

 

Clarksville Acad. (1A)

 

Jo Byrns (1A)

 

McEwen (1A)

 

Merrol Hyde

 

Nashville Christian (1A)

 

East Robertson (2A)

 

Houston County (2A)

 

White House-Heritage (2A)

 

District 11

 

Columbia Academy (1A)

 

Cornersville (1A)

 

Culleoka

 

Hampshire

 

Santa Fe

 

Mt. Pleasant (2A)

 

Richland (2A)

 

District 12

 

Collinwood (1A)

 

Frank Hughes

 

Perry County (1A)

 

Wayne County (1A)

 

Loretto (2A)

 

Summertown

 

Contact Tom Kreager at tkreager@tennessean.com.

Shelbyville Times-Gazette article about bracket mix-up

Right. 112 schools if I counted right.

That would put Collinwood as the first 2A school if they were to just divide in half.