By TTU Sports Information
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Thomas Corhern has joined the Tennessee Tech University sports information staff as a sports information coordinator.
Corhern, 34, was most recently the assistant sports editor at the Cookeville Herald-Citizen, where he had worked for 10 years as the Tennessee Tech beat writer, as well as writing about Upper Cumberland prep sports, focusing on Upperman High School, while covering events for 13 area high schools over the tenure.
Corhern will serve as the sports information contact for the Golden Eagle football and softball teams, as well as the men's tennis team in the fall. He will also serve as a staff photographer and assist with coverage of Tech's other sports, as well as contribute to the athletics website, TTUsports.com.
"Thomas was a clear choice for the position and was targeted the instant we had an opening," TTU Sports Information Director Mike Lehman said. "His knowledge of and passion for Golden Eagle athletics will be invaluable to our department, not to mention his skills as a writer, photographer and designer. We're excited to add Thomas to the Tech family and can't wait to see how helps our department evolve moving forward."
Corhern's experience with Tennessee Tech is extensive, working around the Golden Eagles' athletic programs for 15 years, starting as a sports writer for the Oracle campus newspaper and Eagle yearbook, a Sports Information student assistant and intern from 2003 to 2006, then as the Tech beat writer for the Herald-Citizen from 2006 to 2016.
An award-winning sports writer, Corhern has won numerous awards from the Tennessee Sports Writers Association and the Tennessee Press Association. Most recently, Corhern was named the second-place winner in the Gary Lundy Writer of the Year award by the TSWA in Division II, which includes daily papers under 15,000 circulation.
He is a member in good standing of the TSWA, the Football Writers Association of America and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
At the Herald-Citizen, Corhern displayed a wide variety of skills, ranging from writing to publication design to photography. He also showed range outside of sports coverage as he wrote movie reviews for the paper for two years and covered the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival for seven years.
Corhern, originally from Shelbyville, Tenn., graduated from Tennessee Tech in December 2005, graduating in Interdisciplinary Studies.
