The Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association announced the date and agenda for a special called Board of Control meeting to decide which system to use for the next four-year classification cycle.
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The meeting, which will be held at TSSAA headquarters in Hermitage, is scheduled for July 27 at 9 a.m.
During last month’s study session, the TSSAA presented the board with as many as 45 potential classification systems.
“They don’t need to be meeting (July 27) and trying to decide on 45 things,” TSSAA executive director Matthew Gillespie said. “The study session that we had in conjunction with the June (board of control) meeting was to help narrow that down, which I think they have done, but there are still a lot of possibilities.”
Other items on the July 27 agenda include:
- The board will decide whether to use a multiplier for private schools that choose to participate in Division I.
- The board will decide whether it wants the TSSAA staff to set district/region alignments. If so, this process will be done at the board meeting in November.
- The board will decide whether it will require the TSSAA staff to continue re-evaluating each member school’s enrollment figures after the first two years of the four-year classification cycle.
TSWA renames award for Pat Summit: The Tennessee Sports Writers Association voted unanimously to rename its annual women’s basketball coach of the year award the Pat Summitt Coach of the Year award.
Summit, the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history, won TSWA coach of the year honors in 2007 and 2008 when she led the Lady Vols to back-to-back national championships.
Summit, who died June 28 in Knoxville, was diagnosed in with early onset Alzheimer’s disease in 2011. She retired in April 2012 with a record of 1,098-208 in her 38-year career, which included eight national titles and 18 NCAA Final Four appearances.
Shelbyville hires coach: After one season as football coach at Creek Wood, Justin Palmer has accepted the head coaching position at Shelbyville.
Palmer, who spent four years as an assistant at Shelbyville, replaces Jason Hardy, who resigned last month after coaching the Golden Eagles for the last 10 seasons.
“I was there for four years and had been in contact with them,” Palmer said. “I knew it was a possibility that coach Hardy could be stepping down to take a job back home. When he did, they called me and offered the job.”
Creek Wood athletic director Chuck Daniel was announced as the school’s interim coach.
Daniel served as Creek Wood’s coach for 11 years prior to the hiring of Palmer and went 57-72.
Gannett Tennessee’s Andy Simmons contributed to this report.
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