Immediately following the school’s first state championship in baseball, the Greenback School Cherokees are looking for a new head coach.
After two highly successful seasons at the helm, Wes Caldwell is returning to Ooltewah High School as an assistant coach under former player and colleague Brian Hitchcox.
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