Last season Tallassee proved it has what it takes, especially with Lawrence “L.A.” O’Neal on the sidelines. O’Neal and the Tigers turned a 1-9 team into a 9-3 team in the course of one season. Despite losing key players in Jordan King and Chase Chumley, Tallassee also returns a lot of talent…
Tallassee hosted a 7-on-7 tournament on Tuesday with eight schools from all around central Alabama. Most of the schools in attendance were playoff contenders in their own classifications, so the day promised great football and great competition.
Last Friday Elmore County High School hosted a 7-on-7 tournament with six surrounding schools. Reeltown, Dadeville, Montgomery Academy, Stanhope Elmore and Wetumpka football teams were all in attendance Friday afternoon on the new turf field at ECHS.
More than 200 campers from all over central Alabama came out to Derrick Ansley’s annual football camp in Tallassee on Saturday morning. The annual camp, hosted by Ansley, a Tallassee High School and Troy University alumnus, is a huge event as Ansley is a beloved figure in the area. Kids from…
Tallassee wrestler Thomas Patterson came home as a Greco All-American national champion last weekend, going 8-0 throughout the tournament. Wrestling takes major grit, time, effort and passion so this win means a lot for Tallassee wrestling and Patterson.
The Elmore County football program is player-led.
The Elmore County boys basketball team plans to play fearless basketball this summer, according to coach Nathan Taylor. But this team still has a long road ahead of them before they can reach the level of fearless basketball and compete in the playoffs.
Coming off the dominant performance of last season, Tallassee football coach Lawrence “L.A.” O’Neal plans to replicate success through consistency in games as well as in practice. Now in his second season with the Tigers, O’Neal demands accountability, hard work and dedication from his athletes.
For Tallassee girls basketball, the key to winning is toughness, physicality and defense. These are the principles of the program, now under the tutelage of first-year coach Richard Taylor. This year’s team has reflected that in the last three play dates this summer.
While I haven’t been in Elmore County for very long, I’ve quickly understood a few things about this community: y’all take high school sports seriously. That is one of the primary reasons why I’ve connected with this area of Alabama, a place that has few — if any — discernable commonalities …
Flag football is a new sport that is taking the country — and Elmore County — by storm. Elmore County High School is the second school in the county to add the sport with the assistance of a grant from the Atlanta Falcons and the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.
Elmore County’s Cadi Crews is a force on the soccer pitch. She’s the first person in her family to play soccer, but you wouldn’t know that from the way she plays.
From the outside coaching is the X’s and O’s. It is after-school practices, Thursday night games and celebrating wins with the team. It’s true — coaching is all of those things but it is also so much more. Elmore County girls soccer coach Leslie Hines gets it better than most.
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The summer is paying dividends for the Reeltown girls basketball team.
The Richard Taylor era of Tallassee girls basketball is now underway.
The wrestling state champions at Tallassee put a ring on it, finally.
I’m not exaggerating when I say sports are everything to me.
Matt Tarpley loves soccer. As the head coach for boys and girls soccer at Tallassee High School, Tarpley has lived and breathed soccer for the last three seasons. Although he might be one of the few in Elmore County to do so.
Tallassee’s Irvin Delfin has been playing soccer since around the time he could walk. It started with his father and uncle training him, teaching him how to score. Delfin has continued to chase that feeling since then.
PLAYER OF THE YEAR
The Alabama State Games, founded in 1982 at the request of the U.S. Olympic Committee, have been a cornerstone of amateur athletics in the state for over four decades. What started in 1983 with just four sports and 600 athletes has grown into a massive multi-sport event, featuring 20+ compet…
Another Panther was named to participate in All-Star Week in July.
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If there was one word to describe the Stanhope Elmore baseball team this year — it’d be resilience.
After this past baseball season, odds are you know the name Brue Milner.
The Tallapoosa Publisher Inc. family gets a little bigger with the addition of new sports reporter Ana Sofia Meyer.
File / TPI Wetumpka's Miller Lombardi shines on the mound and at the plater for the Indians.
While most people assume otherwise, Tallassee wrestling coach John Mask didn’t wrestle in high school. In fact, Mask didn’t wrestle until he became a coach at Tallassee High School in 2001.
One of Elmore County softball’s very own will be heading to Montgomery in July.
The 2025 softball season has come to an end in Elmore County, and this season proved to be one of the best in recent history.
It was all a product of design.
One of the most illustrious players in Wetumpka's softball history made sure she went out with a bang.
The Tallassee baseball team had three standouts sign their National Letters of Intent last week to jump to collegiate baseball.
Wherever Reeltown went, success followed.
No matter how late you start, getting the pads on for spring football is a necessity for the Reeltown football team.
There’s no doubt about it. Irvin Delfin has a natural ability on the soccer field.
It was the little things that reared their head in the Tallassee softball team’s trip to the Class 4A AHSAA regional tournament.
It’s never going to be easy when you’re battling more than what is happening on the field.
If they were not on the podium, more than likely, the Dadeville and Reeltown track team had someone close behind. Each of the two saw a ton of success at the AHSAA Class 1A-3A State meet.
This is the start of something special for Tallassee girls basketball.
It was an exciting weekend for Elmore County’s fishing teams as Elmore County High School placed third in the large-school division and Holtville captured fourth in small schools at the Alabama Student Angler Bass Fishing Association state championships.
If there is one thing you don’t need to question the Reeltown softball team about — it’s their fight.