Rhea County High School

Team Profile

Photos by Courtesy of Rhea County High School

Q&A with Coach Taylor Harvey

Taylor Harvey

Q. How would you characterize this year’s team?

A. Year two is always cleaner with what is expected each day. Our guys have very much bought into the discipline and culture.

Q. What will be the keys to your success?

A. If we can improve at OL/DL from year one to year two.

Q. Who will be your key leaders on the team?

A. Aiden Wilkerson, Austun Fugate, Tyler Garrison, Mason Ford, and Kaiden Rector.

Q. What are your biggest reasons for optimism?

A. We return most of our production from last year at the skill positions and will be deeper at OL.

Q. What will keep you up at night?

A. Can we take the next step? We were in every game last year, but winning those close games is a hard thing to do.

Q. Any lessons learned from last year?

A. A ton, but we have to look forward and continue to work on being a better version of ourselves on the field.

Q. Will we see anything different this year?

A. We will continue to build scheme on both sides of the ball.

Q. How would you characterize your team’s speed?

A. Our skill guys are all track athletes. We have pretty good team speed coming back.

Stats

Coach name: Taylor Harvey (2 yrs. as a head coach, 2nd as head coach at Rhea Co.)

Class/Region: TN 5A – Reg. 4

2024 Overall Record: 5-5

2024 District Finish: 4th

Mascot: Golden Eagles

2025 Schedule

August

22 Red Bank (A)

29 Notre Dame (A)

September

5 Ooltewah (H)

12 Soddy Daisy (A)

19 Lakeway Christian (H)

26 East Hamilton (H)

October

3 Lenoir City (H)

17 Loudon (A)

24 McMinn Co. (H)

31 Walker Valley (A)

 

Coach’s View

We have several question marks in spring ball like everyone else, but our guys have bought into the culture we are trying to create here. We had a 1-point loss in the playoffs to a semifinal team last year and had several opportunities to win. They hear every day how much the little details matter. If we can continue to buy in, we will have a chance to be in each and every game.

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