So I saw folks asking about Chattanooga Christian’s football lineup for 2023 yesterday. Thought it’d be easy to grab that roster quick and share it here. Famous last words, right?
The Big Plan
Figured I’d just head straight to their official athletics site. Pulled it up real fast, clicked around… and boom. Nothing. Like absolutely zilch. Just last year’s roster collecting digital dust. Annoying as heck.
Scrambling Around
Okay no sweat. Searched local news sites next. Found one crummy article that mentioned like four players total. Useless. Then I remembered social media might have scraps. Hopped on Facebook, dug through their team page posts deep into 2022. Found a post hyping the 2023 season but the roster link? Dead end. Redirected nowhere. Classic internet.
Panic started crawling in at this point. Thought about hitting up MaxPreps but remembered their high school stuff’s always behind paywalls. Didn’t feel like paying $12 for a PDF today. My options were drying up real fast.
Playing Data Detective
Time to get crafty. Found these pieces scattered everywhere:
- Booster Club Twitter: Three offensive starters named in a preseason tweet
- Local TV Sports Clip: Highlight reel showed jersey numbers for two defensive players briefly
- Forum Gossip: Some dad ranting about positions his kid wasn’t playing – accidentally leaked positions
Took forever cross-referencing jersey numbers between grainy highlight footage and random photos. Like trying to solve a puzzle with half the pieces missing.
The Frankenstein Roster
After two coffees and one melted brain, cobbled this sad thing together:
- QB: Tyler Roberts (#7) – the only full confirm from every source
- RB: Marcus Henderson (#22) – photo evidence + booster tweet
- WR: Jamal Pierce (#81) – seen in a news shot clipping
- LB: Connor Bishop (#45) – dad’s forum meltdown special
And that’s it. Twelve names barely stitched together with spit and hope. Feels like I delivered half a pizza and called it dinner.
Lesson Learned? (The Hard Way)
High school sports info’s like pulling teeth sometimes. Either locked behind logins or scattered to the winds. Next time someone asks? Probably just telling them to call the school office directly. Let them suffer the hold music instead of me doing archaeological digs for jerseys numbers.