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Bryan to speak at Lebanon Clowns’ baseball celebration

Watertown's Jobe to receive Price Athletic Award


Bryan

Bryan

The Wilson County Black History Committee will hold its 19th Anniversary Celebration of the Lebanon Clowns Negro League Baseball team at 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 29, at Pickett Rucker United Methodist Church, 633 Glover Street in Lebanon.

The 2018 Christopher D. Price Athletic Award will be presented to Tyus “Ty” Jobe, a 2014 graduate of Watertown High School and a college football player at the University of Tennessee-Martin.

The program will feature remarks from Tommy Bryan, longtime sports editor of The Wilson Post. Bryan is a veteran journalist and broadcaster, having covered sports in Wilson County since the late 1970s.

Bryan was formerly in the ownership group of The Wilson WORLD. He’s a founding member of the Tennessee Sports Writers Association (TSWA) and has been recognized for his work with statewide awards from both the TSWA and the Tennessee Press Association.

The 2018 football season will mark 33 consecutive years behind the microphone covering Lebanon High School football on local radio for Bryan, and he was the longtime host of the Saturday Morning Coaches’ Breakfast. He also serves as play-by-play voice for Cumberland University football and on occasion fills in on the Phoenix baseball radio/internet broadcasts.

Bryan presently serves on the board of directors of Cedarcroft Home and is a former board member of Prospect, Inc. He served two terms as chairman of the Wilson County Sports Council and is a former president of the Blue Devil Football Foundation.

He has coached and officiated youth baseball, football and basketball and for several years helped his wife, Bobbie Kay Bryan, lead the Upward Basketball ministry at their church, First Baptist Lebanon.

Bryan is a member of the Cumberland University Sports Hall of Fame and was honored in 1992 as a Distinguished Alumni of Lebanon High School. In 2016, he was recognized by the Lebanon Wilson County Chamber of Commerce as the County Sportsperson of the Year.

Tommy and Bobby Kay are the parents of two children, Taylor, 22, a senior at Middle Tennessee State University, and Thomas, 17, a senior at Lebanon High.

He is a 1975 graduate of Lebanon High and a 1977 graduate of Cumberland College with additional studies at Trevecca Nazarene University and Austin Peay State University.

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