Kingsport is a small city hidden in Sullivan County in Tennessee, United States. With a population of approximately 44,000 people, Kingsport was designed and planned by John Nolen of Cambridge earning the name of garden city. As a result of this plan the city is organized in a well rounded structure comprising of separate areas for residential areas, churches, commerce zones and industrial zones. It was this city that popularized traffic circles and built a school system based on a model designed by the Columbia University.
The population in this area features a mix of African Americans, Whites, Asians, Native Americans and Hispanics. They have a school district that goes by the name of Kingsport City Schools and houses one preschool, one high school, seven elementary schools, one alternative school and two middle schools. Together with these schools, Kingsport also boasts of eight private academies. Although there aren’t any colleges or universities that are housed in Kingsport, The University of Tennessee, the East Tennessee State University as well as the Northeast State Technical Community College have their own branch campuses in this region.
The East Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee are the two universities that have an active athletics and sports arm. As Kingsport is a small city the folks take interest in many of the college sports plays there and in the surrounding areas. East Tennessee State University or ETSU as it’s also called is a part of the Tennessee Board of Regents system of colleges and universities and has a functional medical school, a college of pharmacy and is credited with the title for being among Americas best value colleges.
The athletic team in the college goes by the name of the Buccaneers. They take part in the NCAA Division I Atlantic Sun Conference. They’ve been successful in winning a number of titles both in the mens and womens categories. The main sports that this college plays are baseball, basketball, football, tennis, track and field, softball and golf.
The University of Tennessee is headquartered in Knoxville and contains nine undergraduate departments together with eleven graduate departments. It possesses a student population of more than 28000 students from over fifty states within the USsa and from 100 foreign countries. The University of Tennessee carries with it an illustrious football tradition and is also considered the states highest center of learning apart from being the main economic propellant.
The University of Tennessee continues to be champions in football taking part in the Southeastern Conferences eastern Division. They have got longstanding sports rivalries with the Universities of Georgia, Kentucky, Florida, Vanderbilt and South Carolina. They have also won several National Championships and feature some very prominent names including Peyton Manning who was the Super bowl Champion and NFL athlete Reggie White.
These two were a few of the few athletes who began their careers at the University of Tennessee campus. Their womens basketball team has also been consistent winners of the NCAA Division I titles and are also arch rivals with Georgia, LSU and Vanderbilt.
All the news from the sports action that surrounds these colleges is brought to Kingsport by the Kingsport Times News. This local paper is among the major publications of Northeast Tennessee and has now been in publication since 1916 having an average daily circulation of 44,000 copies.