Middle School Football

[gator]

What towns or counties in Middle and East TN have true middle school football programs? Just curious.

[slim589]

Rutherford Co. of course! Great feeder programs at Central, Blackman, Smyrna, and Siegal Middle Schools! Not mention really good youth football programs also!

[Croach]

I agree, I believe that Rutherford County does a great job with Middle School programs. Christiana will field a football team next year. Should be interesting to see how that will effect the rest of the Rutherford County teams.

[randy3116]

There is a "Middle-8" football conference that includes 4 middle schools from Hamblen County, 2 from Jefferson County, and 1 each from Greene and Hawkins Counties.

Edited May 30, 2003 by randy3116

[skunk]

Northeast Tennessee has the Middle 7 conference with:

John Sevier from Kingsport

Ross N. Robinson from Kingsport

Indian Trail from Johnson City

Vance from Bristol

T.A. Dugger from Elizabethton

Church Hill

Unicoi County.

All play football, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls track, baseball, softball, volleyball, and some are participating in golf.

[bud]

Skunk what is the most dominate Middle school overall in sports in this conference? How about just football?

[bird]

Dickson County school system has 3 exceptional middle schools. Dickson Middle School, feeder to Dickson County High School has always had a great program thru the years, including a 75 game winning streak at one time. The new High School, Creek Wood, has 2 fine feeder schools:William James Middle School and Charlotte Middle School. William James has gone 7-2 and 6-2 the last couple of years and Carlotte Middle went 7-1 while winning the Mid-Cumberland Athletic Conference regular season and bowl Championahip this past season.

[redthunder6]

Avery Trace Middle School in Cookeville usually has a good football team.

[skunk]

BUD,

I'd say overall it has been Sevier...I think it is 8 consecutive years they have won outright or shared (as this year) the football title, they won the East Tennessee Sectional basketball title this year (beating Indian Trail, who is the other basketball power in the conference, it was the second sectional title for the Warriors since the TMSSA started the tournament in 1998), they have won the baseball title the past two years (Robinson had been a stronger baseball school in the past along with Indian Trail), Sevier has won the track title for many years. All the schools really have solid programs, but Sevier is always in the mix for all the boys titles...Indian Trail is very strong across the board as well.

Who do you support middle school &/or H.S. wise?

[bud]

Skunk, I went to Sevier and DB so those are my top two. I always knew Sevier had some great coaches and athletes which all feeds into DB. How about you? Who do you pull for?

Edited May 30, 2003 by bud

[skunk]

Bud,

My Dad played @ Sevier & D-B, I played @ Sevier & D-B, I have a son playing 2 sports @ D-B who played @ Sevier, another who has just finished up his playing days @ Sevier and will be a freshman @ D-B, and another who is a 6th grader this year @ Sevier who plans to follows his brothers' footsteps and play 3 sports next year @ Sevier.

I obviously am a fan of the Warriors & the Indians, but the middle 7 conference has some great coaches and teams all over...boys & girls (I also have two daughters who have gratuated from Sevier & D-B and are now in college). Indian Trails' basketball coach does a great job with his team; Dugger's football is always a very well physical, well coached team; Church Hill's football coaches do a great job of preparation; RNR always plays fundamentally sound baseball (and that goes back to my junior high days); RNR had some horses this year in football they were well coached, too; Unicoi County girls basketball had the best press offense I have seen at any level back when my girls were playing, so fundamentally sound; Vance's kids always play hard, regardless of the sport or the score, they play hard.

Northeast Tennessee is blessed with outstanding middle school coaches, and yes I am partial to Sevier, but I am proud of all who coach and participate

[gator]

When I was talking about true middle school football, I'm talking about football that is sanctioned by the school system. I know in Knox Co. they have youth league football thru 8th grade, but it's not sanctioned by the middle school.

 

Also, does anyone know if Mt. Juliet, Hendersonville, LaVergne, Centennial, and Brentwood have middle school football?