Volume 2 Number 10 The Home of Hometown Heroes! March 13, 2019

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Waggoneer Named Miss BasketballPage 5

Bone Hopes to Lead Vols in SEC Page 6

Ingram Named Curtis Cup Captain Page 7

Tournament ReadyBrentwood High is No Stranger to State Championships

Tournament TestedBrentwood’s 6’6” senior Ben Mills will help lead the experience Bruins on their quest for a state championship.

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By Chip CirilloNSP Contributor

Brentwood and Oakland have be-come regulars at the state tourna-ment.

The Bruins have made it five of the last seven years and the Patriots in two of the first three seasons for coach Troy Bond.

Brentwood (26-8) faces Oakland (24-5) in a Class AAA quarterfinal at the Murphy Center in Murfrees-boro at 10 a.m. Thursday.

“It is a great opportunity to go once, so it is amazing what has hap-pened over the last seven years,” Bruins coach Greg Shirley said.

The Bruins earned their first state tournament appearance in school history in 2013.

“It just shows how tough it is to get here,” Shirley said. “There are a lot of great teams that are sitting at home right now.”

Brentwood beat Oakland 54-35 in a Thanksgiving tournament at Leb-anon last season.

Several Oakland players who lost a semifinal football playoff game to Maryville the night before played sparingly in that morning game.

“They’re a very athletic team, as athletic or more athletic than any-body that we’ve faced this year,” Shirley said. “I think, obviously, first of all, we’ve got to be able to handle their pressure. And second of all, they are a very strong re-

bounding team.”The Glass House should be hop-

ping for the showdown between two Middle Tennessee powers.

“Oakland is only, like, thee miles away from Middle Tennessee State University, their campus,” Shirley said. “Our students will be there in force. I think it’s going to be an electric atmosphere. We will have a lot of support from the Bruin Na-tion.”

Both teams boast strong defens-es. The Bruins allow an average of 47.1 and the Patriots give up 46 points per game.

“I think it’s the commitment to compete,” Shirley said. “Everybody can play defense. It’s just a matter of committing to it and sacrificing and just really working at it.”

Defense is the Patriots’ calling card with a press, trap and zones. They change often.

“We get after you, that’s for sure,” Bond said. “We try to play with a lot of high energy and high effort and then play smart as well.”

Harry Lackey, a 6-foot-6 guard, leads the Bruins’ balanced scoring attack at 11 points per game. Lack-ey and 6-7 Ben Mills average 7 re-bounds per game.

“The group of guys that we have is really special and the camarade-rie is like no other,” Lackey said. “Teams make it to state, not players.

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30 Years LaterFranklin’s 2019 Playoff Run Stirs Memories of 1989 Team

By Craig FlaggNSP Contributor

Cool Springs was little more than rolling farmland. Spring Hill didn’t yet know Saturn would be more than a distant planet. And Franklin? Well, in 1989, Franklin was just a quaint little town with big dreams — and home to a really good high school basketball team.

Yes, an awful lot has happened in the 30 years since then.

Those longing for a bit of nostal-gia can take heart that while Cool Springs has gone from rolling hills to retail mecca and Spring Hill has completely shifted gears, Franklin is once again home to a really good high school basketball team.

The names have changed, but the stage is the same — and the prize is, oh, so close.

“I just hate that it took 30 years,” said Jay Johnson, who played on that title-winning 1989 team and is now Franklin High’s athletic direc-tor. “We’ve been so close so many times. I hate it for those guys, those teams that were good enough, but I’m excited for this group.”

Playing in their first basketball state tourney game in 30 years, Franklin High School’s boys will take on Knoxville’s Bearden High School at 6 p.m. today at Middle Tennessee State University.

It was 30 years ago this week when Franklin High’s boys pulled off a shocker, winning three straight state tourney games to claim the Class AAA state title with a daz-zling 27-2 mark.

Even before Franklin locked up a berth in this year’s state tourney, several former players couldn’t help but reminisce about the good ol’ days.

“It was a special time, in a Frank-lin that was, in many ways, very dif-ferent in 1989,” said Kevin Anglin, who led the Rebels’ offense and was the state tourney MVP before going on to star at Vanderbilt University. “It’s become much bigger, a very well-to-do Nashville suburb instead of kinda the sleepy country town that most of us remember from the 70s and 80s.”

Perhaps more than his remarkable performance in the state tourney, Anglin, who is now the basketball coach at Montgomery Bell Acad-

emy, recalls what happened after-ward.

“One of the neat memories of that night was when we came back,” he said. “We went to the town square and there was a kind of impromp-tu gathering right at the courthouse steps. It was kind of like something out of ‘Hoosiers’ ”

A tale of two teamsThere’s no doubt that this season

was going to be special, being the pearl anniversary since taking the title and all, but the fact that Frank-lin is back almost creates a sense of destiny.

Much has been made about the fascinating similarities between the two teams. That also includes some tough odds. To win the title, Frank-lin would very likely have to beat three tourney-tested teams. Three-time defending champ Memphis East is among them.

“I don’t think they realize right now what they’re in the middle of, regardless of what happens,” said Chan Workman, who was a senior on the ’89 team and epitomized its

blue-collar approach. “If they win, win it all, then they have earned it because they are probably going to have to face three of the absolute best teams in the state.”

Like his former teammates, Work-man caught himself thinking about old times more than once lately.

“I’ve probably thought about it more in the last week or so,” Work-man said. “I might go a year or two years without talking to Kev-in. We’ve both got kids, and him coaching, and just life gets in the way, but when we see each other, it’s kinda like you haven’t really missed a beat. We went through a lot, practicing, and Coach (Joe) Daves being as tough as he was.”

Tough lessonsVandell Grigsby, who was not

only a junior and outstanding de-fender on the ’89 title team but also a star football player, can vouch for Daves’ toughness.

“I can remember the game at Dickson County,” Grigsby said. “He took me out of the game ’cause I was kinda frustrated with the ref-

erees. And he didn’t play me any more. And we lost that game.

“He got mad, and I was telling one of my friends that was on the team that I’m really not a basket-ball guy, that I could stop and just get ready for football. The next day, me and Coach Daves, we met and hashed out our differences and we were good ever since.”

As some may remember, Grigs-by broke his leg in a football jam-boree game the following August. He missed his senior season on the football team and was severely limited while continuing his rehab during basketball season.

Things turned out well for Grigs-by, however, as he played football for two seasons at Northwest Mis-sissippi Junior College, earning de-fensive MVP honors and winning a national title in his second year with the program.

“I can’t believe it’s 30 years,” Grigsby said. “I had fun with the guys. I keep in touch with some of them. Who’d have thought we would have won the state title.

Grigsby, who these days coaches several sports at the middle school level, laughs a bit when he thinks of how time has taken its toll. While he’s lost a step or two, he still car-ries with him some lessons he learned from Daves.

“It’s funny. I went to the rec cen-ter in Spring Hill and a young kid, he was laughing,” Grigsby said. “I walk in, I got a little gray in my beard, they didn’t think I could play. You got all those quick kids out there playing, but I know the game. I had to show them a thing or two.”

All businessWorkman remembers that Dick-

son County game, for one, because Franklin lost. It would be their last loss.

“Coach had been pretty calm all year, mostly because we’d been pretty good,” Workman said. “He lit into us pretty good, and I kinda think that was the jolt we needed to make us realize, ‘Hey, you don’t take care of business and this is what happens.”

Workman admits that Daves’ de-manding ways were hard for most

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Franklin High School athletic director Jay Johnson, left, and head boys basketball coach Darrin Joines look over memorabilia from Franklin’s 1989 basketball state championship season. Johnson was a junior on that title team. Franklin is back in the Class AAA state tourney for the first time since that memorable run 30 years ago.

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on the team to stomach. As the years have passed, they’ve seen the wisdom in his ways.

“To this day, if he was still alive and he told me to come punch you in the face, I’d come punch you in the face,” Workman quipped. “That was just the kind of relationship we had with him. He had your best in-terest at heart, and when he told you to do something, you did it. You didn’t question it.”

This 2019 team shares a lot of the characteristics of that ’89 team, even if head coach Darrin Joines takes a slightly different approach.

One thing this team doesn’t have, however, is state tourney experi-ence.

“Coming back in ’89 after play-ing in the state tournament the year before, I think we were very much just all business,” Anglin said. “It was sort of like this is what we ex-pected to happen, this is where we expect to be and we expect to go win games. I think that had a lot to do with us winning in ’89.”

Workman added, “I think one of the biggest things that I remember ... nobody cared who cared scored. That didn’t matter as long as we won.

“Defensively, we didn’t pressure, we always seemed to be where

we were supposed to be. We just played technically sound. We boxed out, we didn’t jump to try to block shots, and part of that was those guys could all jump a foot higher than any of us could. So why try to block something you know you’re not going to get to? You just could out-athlete people when you’re smart and you know how to play.”

A collage of memoriesJohnson, who has pulled off the

rare trifecta, having also coached at Franklin in addition to being athlet-ic director and a former student-ath-lete, is the bridge that connects all of this.

“It’s funny, it’s come up a lot since Darrin and them won Monday night,” Johnson said about winning the title in 1989. “I remember as a 17-year-old, Coach Daves telling us, he said, “You will share a spe-cial bond with these guys the rest of your life. You’ve got something special that most people never get to experience.’

“I remember thinking, ‘OK, Coach, yeah, so what, let’s just play.’ But now, you understanding what he means. When we get back together, you understand exactly what he was talking about 30 years ago.”

During that special championship

run, Daves managed to collect and save many newspaper articles that documented the Rebels’ journey. Coincidentally, those clippings re-mained stashed away in the head coach’s office until Joines pulled them out and had a massive collage made.

“You look at that board, and it brings back a lot of memories,” Johnson said.

Anglin was among many former players on hand last week to watch as the Rebels beat Gallatin to earn their state tourney berth.

“I’m happy for Jay, he’s put his heart and soul into that place, not only as a player and a student but as a coach and now the athletic di-rector.” Anglin said. “As happy as I was for the kids, he was kind of my first thought.”

Johnson said he hasn’t addressed the team as a whole but would talk with players in passing.

“I’ve told some of them, ‘Enjoy the ride because there’s nothing like this. It will be a great memory for you. Soak it up while you’re here.’ ”

As for this team’s chances of re-capturing that magic from 30 years ago?

“You let them win a game,” John-son said. “After that, anything can happen, just get that first one.”

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Wheels for Meals Revs Up at TailGate BreweryThe 5th Annual Wheels for Meals

Car Show, supporting the work of several local non-profit organiza-tions that assist persons confronting challenges such as hunger, home-lessness and PTSD, will be hosted for the first time by TailGate Brew-ery on Saturday, May 11th at their West Nashville location.

Car owners and fans will enjoy

the car show along with a vendor market and silent auction at the restaurant and brewery located at 7300 Charlotte Pike, rain or shine. The show will be co-produced by the Music City Antique Automo-bile Club of American and Bellevue United Methodist Church’s men’s group.

“TailGate Brewery is built every day by our community. We are ex-cited to be hosting this year’s car show. We could not do what we do without the support of the Nashville community. We’re thankful and ex-cited for this opportunity to give back while enjoying some great cars and crafts in the process,” said TailGate owner Wesley Keegan.

Everyone can enjoy coffee, excel-lent craft beer and pizza at TailGate Brewery while voting for the car, cycle, truck, or street rod that catch-es their eye.

Car show entrants will be able to register their vehicles for the event from 9 AM till noon, with space limited to 125 show vehicles. There is a $20 per vehicle entry fee. Spec-tators are admitted free.

“We will be conducting a Peo-ple’s Choice competition for the first time at this show where fans will be offered the opportunity to vote for the cars they like the best,” said Randy Shemin, secretary of the Music City Antique Automobile Club of America.

Net proceeds from the car show benefit the Bellevue Community

Food Bank, HHH Vets, Room in the Inn and Project Transformation’s Summer Reading Program. Sup-porting community needs is the ma-jor reason why the car show takes place, according to Marc Lyon, do-nations coordinator for the show on behalf of Bellevue United Method-ist Men. Lyon said the men’s group believes the relocation of the car show to TailGail Brewery will al-low the event to grow even larger bringing more support and expo-sure to the charities.

“Supporting the needs in our lo-cal community is why our men’s group works in partnership with AACA in the year-long planning of producing the car show,” said Lyon. “Our show supported the food bank in year one. Since then our United Methodist Men’s group has added on several other very worthwhile community nonprofit organizations that deserve our support. Anything we can do to help meet the needs of those experiencing hunger; home-lessness; PTSD; and a lack of read-ing skills is good for our commu-nity.”

Pinnacle Bank has served as a

corporate sponsor of the car show since its inception in 2015. Join-ing Pinnacle and TailGate Brewery as sponsors in 2019 are Streetside Classics, Hippie Radio 94.5, and Bellevue Sports Weekly.

Pinnacle Vice President and Bel-levue Office Leader Karen Brunetti said the bank supports efforts such as the car show which play a role in helping meet critical needs in the local community

“The car show has become an ex-cellent way to partner with Bellevue United Methodist Church and it’s men’s group,” said Brunetti. “We are excited about the new partner-ship with TailGate Brewery, This is an important way for us to give back to those within our community that are in need.”

Pinnacle Bank’s Bellevue office wants to do its part to help fight hunger in Bellevue according to Brunetti.

“I personally witnessed volun-teers at the food bank engaged in the hard work of sorting, collecting and distributing food to families in need,” Brunetti said.

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Ensworth’s Waggoner Named Miss BasketballBy Stetson MarlinNSP Contributor

No one is having more success than Dontavia Waggoner has had the last few weeks. Waggoner helped lead the Ensworth Lady Ti-gers to a 27-2 record and a Division II-AA State Championship over Brentwood Academy.

She racked up a bunch of individ-ual accolades as well, as she was named the Division II-AA Middle/East Player of the Year, while also

being awarded the MVP of the state tournament after she posted 21 points and eight rebounds in the state championship game.

This past week, Waggoner was named the Division II-AA 2019 Miss Basketball Award winner. “This reward is by far the best for me because it shows how hard I’ve worked and how much time and dedication I’ve put towards improv-ing my game,” Waggoner said.

Her teammate, Kaiya Wynn, fin-ished as a Miss Basketball Finalist as well.

Waggoner finished this season with outstanding stats, averaging a double-double throughout the season. She posted 20 points per game while pulling in 10 rebounds a game. She also finished with two assists a game and four steals a game.

Waggoner came back this sea-son with vengeance. She finished as a Miss Basketball Finalist last season, but that didn’t hinder the work she put in over the offseason to improve her game and bring suc-cess to the team as well. She said,

“It showed me how sometimes you have to take an L and see what you need to work on in order to reach the goals.”

Waggoner models her game and work ethic after basketball greats.

She tends to model herself after Laker legend Kobe Bryant and Lady Vol legend Candace Parker. Waggoner also said a lot of peo-ple tell her she plays like LeBron James.

2019 II-AA Miss BasketballDontavia Waggoneer

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make it to state, not players. We understand that our best offense is coming from our defense.”

Oakland lost three of its first four games when 6-6 DD Anderson (13.5 ppg, 7.5 rpg) and D’Arre Mc-Donald (14 ppg) were in the play-offs with the Patriots’ state -cham-pion football team.

Patriots point guard Ray Tyler (17 ppg) returned from a knee injury in early January.

“We’re glad to get all three of those guys back,” Bond said.

Oakland has won 21 of its last 23 games with the only losses coming to archrival Riverdale.

The Patriots avenged those de-feats with a 51-40 win over the War-riors in a Region 4-AAA semifinal.

Jaden Jamison (13.5 ppg), Lamar-ius Jackson (8 ppg, 5.5 rpg), sixth man MJ Grant and 6-3 post Carter Baughn have also played important roles for Oakland.

“We definitely share the basket-ball, which is what we’re looking to do,” Bond said.

Oakland beat East Hamilton in the sectional and Brentwood won at Station Camp.

“(Brentwood) is big and they’re obviously intelligent players on the floor as well,” Bond said. “Total different styles of play, so it should make for an interesting matchup.”

Oakland prefers a faster pace

while Brentwood does better in a half-court game although both teams can adapt to either style.

Both schools have a successful King in their past: Dennis for Brent-wood and Randy for Oakland.

Dennis King stepped down in 2015 with nearly 600 wins in 28 seasons. Randy King retired in 2009 after his 20th straight 20-win season.

Oakland made it to state despite the loss of its leading scorer, Keis-hawn Davidson (17.5 ppg), who transferred to Athens Prep Acade-my in August.

Brentwood also lost its leading scorer, Jack Thurman, for an undis-closed reason late in the season.

“We retooled kind of at the last minute with a lot of guys,” Bond said. “Our team this year is definite-ly different than last. How we’re trying to play is similar, but this is a different cast and a different way of doing it, for sure.”

Half of Brentwood’s losses were to Franklin, which plays Bearden in a Wednesday-night quarterfinal.

Bond definitely knows the way to the state tournament after go-ing once as a player at Lebanon and four times as Wilson Central’s coach, where he went 269-152 in 14 seasons before arriving at Oakland in 2016.

“I’m definitely blessed,” said Bond, a former Tennessee State guard.

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SEC TournamentVols Slip Into Tourney But Can Still Come Out On Top

By Steve MegareeAssociated Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has fallen, but that doesn’t mean the Volunteers can’t get back up and win the Southeast-ern Conference Tournament.

Rick Barnes knows what his once top-ranked basketball team needs to do — or not to do.

“Too many turnovers, shot-clock violations, you name it, that led to easy baskets,” the Volunteers coach said of Tennessee’s latest loss. “That is the learning situation. You would like to think where we are and what we have been through, we wouldn’t make those types of mistakes this time of year. But we did.”

The Volunteers squandered an opportunity to earn a share of a second straight SEC title Saturday by blowing an 11-point lead in an 84-80 loss at No. 22 Auburn. No. 9 LSU instead won the SEC champi-onship outright.

Tennessee fell from No. 5 to No. 8 in the Associated Press Top 25 heading into this week’s SEC Tour-nament at Nashville, Tennessee.

The loss dropped Tennessee to the No. 3 seed in the SEC Tourna-ment after the Vols owned at least a share of first place for virtually the entire regular season. The Vols (27-4, 15-3 SEC) have a quarterfinal matchup Friday night against No. 6 seed Mississippi State (22-9, 10-8), No. 11 seed Texas A&M (13-17, 6-12) or No. 14 seed Vanderbilt (9-22, 0-18).

Tennessee hasn’t won the SEC Tournament since 1979.

After running off a school-record 19 consecutive victories, Tennessee has gone 4-3 in its last seven games against a backloaded schedule. Six of its final seven games were against teams projected to make the NCAA Tournament.

Tennessee had won three straight before Saturday, but the Vols have fallen into some bad habits that proved costly against Auburn. The most notable problem is an occa-sional tendency to settle for 3-point shots rather than driving to the bas-ket.

The Vols shot 9 of 28 from 3-point range and 13 of 16 from the free-throw line at Auburn.

Barnes said the problem wasn’t limited to the Auburn game with the Vols taking too many 3-pointers in

all their losses.“I can’t tell you why because we

keep talking about (how) we should know who we are and what we are doing,” Barnes said. “I can’t ex-plain that. I really can’t.”

Tennessee has attempted more 3-point shots than free throws in each of its four losses but in only nine of its 27 wins. In its four loss-es, Tennessee has been outscored by an average margin of 9.3 points at the free-throw line.

The Volunteers attempted more 3-point shots than free throws in seven of its last eight games overall. During those eight games, Tennes-see has averaged 21.8 shots from 3-point range and 14.3 free-throw attempts. Before that stretch, Ten-nessee had been attempting 18.4

3-point shots and 22.4 free throws per game.

Complicating matters is the fact that one of its top 3-point shooters is slumping.

Jordan Bowden broke out of his recent funk by scoring 16 points and going 3 of 7 from 3-point range against Auburn, but Lamonte’ Turn-er remains in a tailspin.

Turner has gone 6 of 42 on 3-point attempts over his last seven games, including 1 of 15 in his last three games. Turner is shooting 29.5 per-cent from 3-point range this year, down from 39.9 percent last season.

Barnes said Turner is putting too much pressure on himself to make 3-pointers and is attempting diffi-cult shots. Barnes noted that Turner shouldn’t focus on 3-point attempts and cited Tennessee’s 73-71 victo-ry at Mississippi, when the junior guard focused on his mid-range game and scored 17 points while shooting 8 of 12 overall and 1 of 4 from beyond the arc.

“He has to recognize that he’s such a better basketball player than thinking he has to make a three,” Barnes said. “Lamonte’ Turner can affect the game in so many ways if he never made a shot. He’s become one of the best defensive guards in the country the way he can dis-rupt a game. The way he’s making plays for his teammates, it just gets (hardest) for him when he starts try-ing to make shots from behind the arc. That’s when he doesn’t play as well.”

Steve Magaree is a writer for the Associated Press. This story ap-peared in the NJ Herald.

Former Ensworth star Jordan Bone will try and lead the Vols to a SEC Championship starting today at Bridgestone Arena.

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Nashville’s Ingram Named Curtis Cup Captain

Sarah Ingram of the Golf Club of Tennessee has been named captain of the 2020 USA Curtis Cup Team. Photo courtesy of USGA

The USGA today announced that three-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Am-ateur champion Sarah LeBrun In-gram has been named captain of the 2020 USA Curtis Cup Team. A biennial competition between top female amateur golfers from the United States and Great Britain and Ireland (GB&I), the 41st Match will be contested June 12-14 at Conwy GC in Caernarvonshire, Wales.

A member of the 1992, 1994 and 1996 USA Curtis Cup Teams, In-gram owns a 2-1 record in singles matches. During her three Curtis Cup experiences, Ingram played with notable teammates such as Cristie Kerr, Carol Semple Thomp-son and Ellen Port. Ingram’s three U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Cham-pionship wins (1991, 1993, 1994) are third most behind only Port and Meghan Stasi, both of whom have claimed four titles.

“Sarah is an incredibly accom-plished and well-respected player,” said John Bodenhamer, senior man-aging director of Championships for the USGA. “Her individual USGA record and long history with our Association speaks for itself,

and we are excited and proud to welcome her as captain of the 2020 USA Curtis Cup Team.”

Ingram won the 1991 U.S. Wom-en’s Mid-Amateur with a 6-and-5 victory over current USGA Exec-utive Committee Member Martha Lang at Desert Highlands Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ingram won back-to-back titles in 1993 and 1994, defeating Mary Burkhardt, 2 and 1, at Rochester (Minn.) Golf & Country Club and Marla Jemsek, 2 and 1, at Tacoma (Wash.) Country & Golf Club. In addition, Ingram was low amateur in the 1995 U.S. Women’s Open at The Broadmoor

in Colorado Springs, Colo., and played in two World Amateur Team Championships, including for the victorious USA Team in 1994 at The National Golf Club in Ver-sailles, France.

“It’s an honor and a privilege to be asked to captain the Curtis Cup Team and represent the United States,” said Ingram, whose grand-father is from Southern Wales, just over 100 miles from Conwy Golf Club. “To be able to captain a team that will compete in the U.K., where my mother was born and raised, makes this extra special for me. The USGA has been a tremendous

part of my life and being a USGA champion is one of the proudest moments of my career. To be able to share my experiences, both in golf and life, with young ladies who are as passionate about the game as I am is a special opportunity and a responsibility I am very much look-ing forward to.”

A Duke University graduate, In-gram, who was at one time ranked the No. 1 amateur in the world, is a member of the Duke University Sports Hall of Fame, the Tennes-see Sports Hall of Fame and the Tennessee Golf Hall of Fame. She won the 1986 and 1987 Maryland State Women’s Amateurs, the 1990 Canadian Women’s Amateur, the 1991 Women’s Western Amateur and Tennessee State Championship, the 1992 Broadmoor Women’s In-vitational and the 1993 Women’s Southern Amateur.

Most recently, Ingram served as co-chair of the 2018 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship, which was held at her home club, The Golf Club of Tennessee, and won by 2018 USA Curtis Cup Team mem-ber Kristen Gillman.

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