Concord Christian high school football
Lions reinvigorated in 2024; TSSAA ready?
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With help from senior Lions teammate Zack Langley (1), sophomore Jude Wiggins (14) finds daylight to run versus Hayesville, North Carolina, in Concord Christian School’s first-ever football home game, played Saturday Sept. 28. - Alan Sloan
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Several Concord Christian School defenders clamp down on a Hayesville, North Carolina, running back during the Lions’ first-ever home game, which took place in a light rain Saturday, Sept. 28. - Alan Sloan
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Getting a handoff from CCS quarterback Dawson Williford (2), running back C.J. Simpson looks for yardage while getting effective blocks, including one from Jude Wiggins (14). - Alan Sloan
Is Concord Christian School high school football ready to face the rigors of TSSAA private school competition for 10 weeks in 2025?
After getting a taste of such competition in the fall of 2024, the Lions went 3-2 against varsity-level competition, which included a team from Hayesville, North Carolina during the program’s first-ever home game on a rainy Saturday, Sept. 28 (a 37-16 loss).
To compete in the Division II-A East Region, with head coach Steve Matthews having revived the program that played two seasons of TSSAA II-A without winning in 2017 and 2018 — sometimes taking a tough beating — “I thought it was really good for us,” Matthews said about the five-game varsity schedule tune-up in 2024.
Having begun playing junior varsity teams the first five week before finishing against varsity foes, “I thought that was a good way to set it up,” Matthews said. “We’ve got several guys on the team that hadn’t really played a whole lot of football.”
The Lions will play six region games: Webb School-Bell Buckle (Sept. 12), Providence Academy (Oct. 3) and Providence Christian (Oct. 24) all at home, and Middle Tennessee Christian School (Sept. 19), The Kings Academy (Sept. 26) and Chattanooga Grace (Oct. 31) on the road.
