GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — The Tusculum University men’s basketball team will host Tennessee Wesleyan University for an exhibition game this Monday morning (Nov. 4) at 11 a.m. in Pioneer Arena.
Monday’s event has been designated as the “Jack Kilday Education Game” as the Pioneers have invited area elementary school children to be their guests for Monday’s exhibition contest.
Area schools scheduled to attend include: Chuckey-Doak Middle, Doak Elementary, Greeneville Middle, Hal Henard Elementary, Highland Elementary, South Greene Middle and West Greene Middle.
There will be face painting and activities prior to tip-off. There will also be in-game and halftime contests for the kids.
Fans are asked to allow for extra time for travel to the game as parking may be limited.
The event is named in memory of Jack Kilday who passed away last February. Kilday was an outstanding basketball and baseball student-athlete at Tusculum from 1955-1957.
The 1957 Tusculum graduate was a longtime educator, coach and administrator in the Greene County School System. He is remembered as a fiercely competitive girls’ and boys’ basketball coach at Chuckey-Doak, North Greene, Ottway, and Doak Elementary Schools. Following his 25 years of service teaching and coaching, he continued his career in supervisory roles as assistant principal and principal of Chuckey-Doak High School.
Kilday was inducted to the Tusculum Sports Hall of Fame in 1989 and later was the recipient of the University’s Sports Benefactor Award. He was also inducted as a Chuckey-Doak High School Knight of Legend.
Head coach J.T. Burton, who is entering his seventh season at the helm of the TU program, returns seven lettermen and three starters from last year’s 14-13 team which finished fifth in the South Atlantic Conference standings and qualified for the league tournament for a seventh consecutive year.
