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[YOUTHCOACH16]

Pretty good post, except I don't feel Ooltewah's success can be tied as much as you say to Harrison's youth program. Sure some kids have come through Harrison. But most come from Snowhill, East Brainerd and Ooltewah youth associations. Hunter and Ooltewah Middle schools have pretty much dominated middle school athletics for the past 7 or 8 years. If you had a kid zoned for Central what would you do? I can tell you I would move, send them to a private school, or whatever I had to do to keep them from attending Central High School. I thought the new football coach had them heading in the right direction after last year, but after watching and listening to several coaches during the Ooltewah game this year. I don't think so. Very disappointing, to say the least. I hope Ooltewah never plays them again.

Thats true Ooltewah does receive players from all those different organazations but the majority of the major talent comes from harrison and East Brainard. Ooltewahs youth leagues are way below average and in fact only play each other. Snow Hills teams are sparse. They have to go to Cleveland and play in their leaugue. In fact my own son and 4 of the kids on our state championship baseball team go to school at Snow Hill but elect to play at Harrison. This varies from year to year obviously.There is a reason Hunter has won the county championship so may times in the last 10 years. The group of freshmen Ooltewah has right now is unbelievable. The group of 9-10 year olds we have at harrison should even be more unbelievable. They have already exceeded everything any othr age groups have ever done in that area. This is in all sports. Will they go to central? I highly doubt it unless some things seriously change. Baylor and Mccallie are going to get about 5-6 of them my son included and Ooltewah & Tyner will get the majority of the rest. I hate it, but parents have to put their kids in the best environment they can.