Junior UT Martin soccer standout Erica Myers has been named the OVC Goalkeeper of the Week after her standout performance over the past weekend.
Myers, a native of Holland, Ohio, played between the posts in all 200 minutes of last week’s matchups, tallying 20 saves while posting a goals against average of 0.45 and 95.2 save […]
Veteran football official to close out six decades of service this weekend
By John Bryce
The first game was a three-man crew with a whopping $15 paycheck.
Along the way, there were a trio of state championship contests, countless playoff matchups and games from Memphis to Hendersonville and myriad outposts in between.
On the football field, W.K. ‘Wink’ Willoughby […]
UT Martin head basketball coach Anthony Stewart has announced the additions of two new juniors to the Skyhawks program in Jordan Pierce and Hannes Polla.
Polla joins the Skyhawks after spending the last two seasons at the University of Oklahoma, while Pierce comes from the University of Dayton by way of Odessa College.
Polla, a native of […]
The UT Martin Lady Skyhawks’ scoreless tie to Arkansas-Little Rock yesterday keeps them unbeaten on the early season.
Junior goalkeeper Erica Meyers recorded her 9th career shutout in this game. She had 7 saves-in-goal to move her season total to 20 through the first two games.
The (1-0-1) Lady Skyhawks now move on to play at Evansville […]
The TSSAA lifted restrictive sanctions against Scotts Hill High School and Haywood High School during the organization’s Board of Control meeting Monday in Hermitage.
Scotts Hill High School appealed the restrictive probation placed on their boys’ basketball program for the 2019-20 school year due to an unsportsmanlike incident at a game last season against Adamsville.
After hearing […]
UT Martin Skyhawks senior Hannah Phillips was named Thursday to the 15-member preseason All-OVC volleyball team, as voted by OVC head coaches and sports information directors.
A 6′-2″ outside hitter from Orient, Ohio, Phillips became only the fourth player in Skyhawk history to earn All-OVC second team honors last season, and one of just three UTM […]
At Tuesday night’s Meet the Skyhawks event at A.B. Cheatham’s in downtown Martin, UT Martin head football coach Jason Simpson spoke on the season that starts in two weeks.
Coach Simpson told Thunderbolt Radio what an event like this means to him and the rest of the Skyhawks athletics.
Coach Simpson went on to speak about what […]
When Weakley County athletes take the field and court this year, they will be coached by some non-faculty coaches.
The Weakley County School board recently approved:
At Westview, Dusty Gibson to coach cross-country, Kassi Wright for cheerleading, Emily Johnson for girls’ soccer, and Merritt Spence to coach boys’ soccer.
At Dresden, Todd Maxey has been approved to coach […]
UT Martin Skyhawk cross country and track and field coach Peter Dalton has announced his resignation to take another coaching position
During his time at UTM, Dalton took the program to unprecedented success.
Not only have his squads rewritten the majority of the program’s record books, he has coached a pair of All-Americans and OVC champions while […]
The OVC Media Preseason Polls have been released for women’s soccer with Murray State and UT Martin sitting in the top two spots respectively, as voted on by the league’s head coaches and sports information directors.
Murray State picked up 18 of 22 first place votes and 198 votes total. UTM is coming off a record-setting […]
Former Tennessee Volunteers offensive lineman Nathan Niehaus says injuries caused him to decide this week to end his football career.
Niehaus tweeted Thursday that “due to sustained injuries and the overlapping wear on my body, I have decided to retire from the game that has taken me places that I never could have imagined.”
Tennessee coach Jeremy […]
