Melrose High School’s football team is making history! For the first time in 19 years, the Golden Wildcats will be going to the TSSAA (Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association) Championship game, which is in Chattanooga on Saturday, December 7. 

With only 41 seconds left in the game against defending champion Pearl-Cohn High School, Melrose’s Jamarion Morrow scored a touchdown that gave his team the long-awaited ticket to a TSSAA final. “It's unreal,” Jarrett Morrow, the first-year co-coach and father of Jamarion Morrow said in an interview with The Commercial Appeal. “It’s an unbelievable feeling to be doing this in my neighborhood, for my school. To be going to (state) in our first year (coaching), it's unreal. I'm lost for words.”

The unforgettable victory over Nashville’s Pearl-Cohn, with a 14-7 score in the TSSAA football playoffs Class 4A semifinal, was celebrated with fireworks, lots of excitement, and joy.

Congratulations to the Golden Wildcats (11-3), and good luck on your next game against Macon County.

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