Red Wolves Open Season Today

The Red Wolves will open its season today as it hosts the Northern Colorado Hailstorm at CHI Memorial Stadium in USL League One soccer action. Game time is 7:30 p.m.

The Red Wolves were runners-up in league championship play last season to South Georgia. The team is one of only five original clubs in USL League One.

This year there will be some stark differences in last year’s club. Ziggy Korytoski replaced Jimmy Obleda last year as coach of the Red Wolves. Obleda was suspended for much of the season and Jimmy Weekley, former Baylor School and Chattanooga Christian coach, served as interim.

CHI Memorial has a new bar that overlooks the field of play. It may be open for game time. In addition, more seating has been added to the stadium.

The Red Wolves have gone cashless this year. For more information about ticket purchases click here.

Gates for this evening’s game open at 4 p.m. for tailgating.

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.