Netherland tops TSSAA Hall of Fame class
Ken Netherland, the winningest coach in Tennessee high school football history, heads the list of inductees for the TSSAA Hall of Fame’s class of 2016.
Netherland, who died in July 2014, spent nearly 40 seasons on the sidelines, coaching Hillcrest, Germantown, St. George’s and Lausanne, while compiling 368 victories, a total that places him 31st nationally.
He won state titles with Germantown in 1983 and St. George’s in 2007 and finished runner-up on five other occasions. In 2000, he was inducted into the National High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
Netherland is part of a ninemember class that will be honored at the Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in Murfreesboro on April 9 at 11 a.m.
Other honorees include Bo Booth, an administrator for 39 years at Dyer County and Gibson County; longtime Columbia Central coach L.E. Clayborne; Ed Foster, a coach and administrator at East Ridge and Ooltewah; Clint Satterfield, who won five state football titles at Trousdale County; Jill Prudden, who won 908 games and three titles as girls basketball coach at Oak Ridge; officials Henry Phillips and Joel Pierce; and longtime golf administrator Allen Rich- ardson.
Tickets for the Hall of Fame luncheon are $25, will go on sale March 7 and are available for purchase through the TSSAA website (tssaa.org). There will be no ticket sales at the door.
LITTLE IS STATE’S BEST
Houston High’s Gabby Little has been named the Gatorade girls soccer player of the year for the state of Tennessee.
Little, who will play collegiately at Ole Miss, scored 23 goals and assisted on 20 as the Mustangs finished 22-0, winning the AAA state championship and earning a No. 2 national ranking for the season. Eight of Little’s goals came in six postseason games.
She ea r ned Al l-America mention this season, playing in the national all-star game in December, and she is a finalist for the Pepsi Best of the Preps player of the year award for the second consecutive year.
It’s the second time a player from Houston has won the award; Olivia Harrison did it in 2012.
SAINTS TRIO HONORED
Three Briarcrest Christian School volleyball standouts have been honored by prepvolleyball. com.
Junior setter Callie Anderton, a Pepsi Best of the Preps player of the year finalist for the second straight year, was named to the website’s 75-player honorable mention squad. Junior outside hitter Kendal Strand and freshman middle blocker Alyia h Wells earned special mention.
The trio led the Saints to a 445-1 record in 2015 and a runnerup finish in Division 2-AA.
In other volleyball news, St. Agnes’ Taylor Hasley has committed to play collegiately at Manhattan. The senior led the Stars to the D2-AA state tournament this season and is a threetime all-metro player.