Lindsey Young is a sports writer at the Chattanooga Times Free Press who started work at the Chattanooga News-Free Press 24 years ago.
He covers the Northwest Georgia prep beat and NASCAR.
Lindsey’s hometown is Ringgold, Ga., and he graduated from Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School. He received an associate’s degree from Dalton Junior College (now Dalton State) and a bachelor’s degree in communications from UTC.
He has won several writing awards, including two Tennessee Sports Writers Association Prep Writer of the Year awards. Lindsey is married to Christine and has two children, Nicholas and Cody, and one step-daughter, Lacey. In addition to being an all-around sports fan, he is an avid bowler with five career 300 games and a high series of 801.
Contact Lindsey at 423-757-6296 or lyoung@timesfreepress.com.
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GAINESVILLE, Ga. — Only the 1988 Berrien County Rebels could fully enjoy Monday's baseball doubleheader split between Ringgold and Gainesville.
RINGGOLD, Ga. -- Of all the numbers being examined before today's GHSA Class AAA semifinal baseball series between Ringgold and Gainesville, the most notable might be the 31-0 record for Gainesville's nationally ranked Red Elephants.
Having watched his team get shut out in a game that barely took an hour and a half, Brentwood Academy baseball coach Buddy Alexander decided patience was a virtue his team needed to learn quickly.
CALHOUN, Ga. -- Sometimes in sports the feel-good stories just don't work out. For six innings Wednesday, Corey Greeson was on the brink of the kind of story that becomes legend in small towns.
RINGGOLD, Ga. -- As his teammates celebrated and chased their coach with a water bucket, Corey Kafka allowed himself a small celebration Wednesday at Bill Womack Field.
CALHOUN, Ga. — As his team walked to the dugout following a doubleheader split in its GHSA Class AA quarterfinal baseball series, Calhoun coach Chip Henderson resisted the urge to say, "Told you so," to his somewhat frustrated players.
Pitching may have been the name of the game in Georgia high school baseball when the season started, but as hitters have grown accustomed to the less-powerful BBCOR bats, offenses have started to take off.
CALHOUN, Ga. — Chip Henderson couldn't recall the last time -- or any time -- one of his Calhoun High School baseball teams pounded out 13 hits and none of them went for extra bases. That's just what the Yellow Jackets did Wednesday in game one of their GHSA Class AA second-round series against Cook County, rolling to a 10-0 five-inning win in workmanlike style.
At least the decision was an easy one for Clayton Parker. The Boyd-Buchanan senior pitcher had struggled most of the game to put his curveball where he wanted it, so with the District 5-A championship on the line Tuesday, the right-hander went with old reliable.
As the Red Raiders began practice in pads last week, the focus was on finding replacements up front. Only one starter returns to the offensive line, and all three defensive line starters are gone. That lone returning O-line starter is tackle Derrick Green (6-foot-1, 315), and two candidates to start next to him are Ben Pettway (6-3, 240) and Trey Foshee (5-9, 210).
