UPDATED: Malone Resigns from ERHS

East Ridge High School Head Football Coach Tracy Malone has resigned suddenly, Tuesday afternoon.

According to our friends at NewsChannel9, journalists there learned this afternoon that students allegedly assaulted another student while Coach Malone was supposed to be in his classroom but wasn’t.

According to Stacy Stewart, Hamilton County’s Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources, the district is aware of the incident and met with Malone prior to his resignation.

UPDATE: According to Hamilton County Sheriff’s Department officials, the Student Resource Officer reported that the incident happened in the weight room. The SRO stated that two students were horse playing and it escalated. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s office said the incident did not warrant any charges being filed in the incident.

East Ridge News Online has tried to reach Malone for comment but has not been successful.

East Ridge News Online will update this story as more information becomes available.

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.

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