Scenic City Sports

08/06/2025

Hopefully our local leaders start investing more into weight rooms, locker rooms and meeting spaces for our local athletes. Dont get us wrong…turf is nice BUT championships are won in the weight room!

08/05/2025

Trion High School is extremely proud to announce the promotion of Matt Swanson to the role of Lady Bulldogs Head Basketball Coach. THS looks forward to this exciting new chapter in Lady Bulldogs Basketball. Coach Swanson brings a true wealth of knowledge of the sport and has a tremendous basketball background spanning over 25 years. Trion extends our congratulations to the entire Swanson Family and looks forward to the continued growth and success of Lady Bulldogs Basketball under our new leadership…GO DOGS!!!

Coach Matt Swanson’s Bio and Introduction to Bulldog Nation
I am beginning my 27th year in education. I have spent all 27 years in the special education classroom. I have coached basketball for 26 of my 27 years in education. I have coached girls' basketball for 23 years. I started my coaching career as an assistant coach at LaFayette High School under legendary coach Craig Parrott, who won a state championship at Chattooga and was head coach at UTC for 10 years. After serving as an assistant for 3 years at LaFayette, I joined my high school coach, Jay Williams, at Northwest Whitfield. I returned to LaFayette Middle School to serve as the head coach for girls and boys during the 2002-2003 school year. I was promoted to head varsity girls coach at LaFayette High School in 2004. I would serve as the Head Girls' varsity coach at LaFayette for 10 seasons. I collected over 120 wins during that 10-year stint at LaFayette, with my best season of 18-5 and winning the sub-region championship with a 10-0 record in 2007. In 2017, I accepted a job as the head girls' basketball coach at Gordon Central High School in Calhoun. I was also named the athletic director for Gordon Central that same year. Gordon Central had never qualified for the state playoffs when I took the position. I was fortunate enough to lead them to their first playoff appearance in the 2017-18 season. We qualified for the state playoffs all 4 years that I served as the head coach. I have over 200 career wins as a head coach, which is a testament to great players, great assistants, and hard work. I served as head girls' coach from 2017 to 2021 and athletic director from 2017 to 2022 at Gordon Central. I am beginning my 4th year at Trion. I have served as an assistant girls' basketball coach, assistant volleyball coach, assistant middle school football coach, and head middle school baseball coach for the past 3 years. Trion is a special place that I am blessed to be a part of.
I have been married to Kesha Swanson for the past 26 years. She is beginning her 29th year as a teacher at Gilbert Elementary. I have a 23-year-old son, Landon, who recently got married and is starting his 2nd year teaching 5th grade at Gilbert Elementary. My youngest son, Hayden, is 21 and will graduate this spring from GNTC. He is currently a substitute teacher at Trion and will help our girls' basketball program with social media responsibilities. I am looking forward to being the head girls' basketball coach at Trion High School. We will continue to build on the success we have had over the past 5 seasons. I enjoyed working with Coach Brown the past 3 seasons and consider him a great friend. Building a relationship with our girls in our program over the past 3 years has helped speed up the transition. They know what to expect of me and understand what I expect of them. Go Dogs!!

08/03/2025

The Scenic City Sports Podcast for August 3rd 2025 with special guest East Ridge Pioneer Football head coach Chad Barger https://youtube.com/live/eM1cdLYnWdo?feature=share

08/03/2025

Wishing the best of luck to Carlee Rogers as she competes in the 125th U.S. Women’s Amateur this week! 🇺🇸

We’re proud of you—Go Big Red!

08/03/2025

Schedule Release!

The defending SSAC Champions set their Fall 2025 schedule!

Time to start the journey!

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08/01/2025

The Dallas Cowboys will never be a serious organization under Jerry and his family are distant from the organization.

Some of Micah Parsons’ statements today.

08/01/2025

This isn’t just a Tennessee problem…it’s a college sports problem. Athletics departments are about to price out long time fans to the point that blue collar fans will not be able to attend athletic events. But this is what the people wanted and now we get to see the consequences of paying athletes.

07/30/2025

Summer’s almost over, but we're still having fun! One of the last weeks at AT&T Field starts TONIGHT!

🎒Backpack Drive
🚨Safety Night
🏈College Football Night with postgame fireworks
🚘Used Car Night
🧱 LEGO® designed baseball giveaway

See you there! Get July 29 - Aug 3 tickets at https://atmilb.com/2Mg9e88

07/30/2025

🏴‍☠️ Calling All Pirate Fans! 🏴‍☠️
Come out and show your support as we welcome our new Head Coach, Steve Garland!

📅 Date: Sunday, August 3rd, 2025
🕔 Time: 5:00 PM CDT
📍 Location: The H***h

Don’t miss your chance to meet Coach Garland, hear his vision for the team, and gear up for an exciting season ahead. Let’s pack The H***h and give him a true Pirate welcome!

07/30/2025

07/29/2025

Is Bucky the the first Ringgold alum to sign with an NFL team? Know he was with San Diego last year but trying to think back.

We've signed C Bucky Williams and waived C Brady Latham

07/28/2025

Major League Baseball NEEDS a salary cap and NEEDS a salary floor. Both have to happen for the league to survive.

It's been the worst kept secret in sports that Major League Baseball is headed full speed towards a lockout at the end of the 2026 season. A group of owners are pushing for a salary cap to be…