Thomas Corhern joined the Tennessee Tech University sports information staff as a sports information coordinator in July 2016, entering his 10th season on staff. As of July 2020, he oversees the media relations efforts over football, women's basketball and softball, as well as assisting with efforts across all of Tennessee Tech's athletic programs. He also serves as a staff photographer and contributor to the TTUsports.com website.

 

Corhern was previously the assistant sports editor at the Cookeville Herald-Citizen, where he 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.

  

He is a member in good standing of the Tennessee Sports Writers Association, and has previously been a member of the Football Writers Association of America, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association, the Middle Tennessee chapter of the National Football Foundation and the College Sports Communicators (formerly College Sports Information Directors of America). 

 

Corhern’s experience with Tennessee Tech is extensive, working around the Golden Eagles’ athletic programs for 25 years, starting as a sports writer for the Oracle campus newspaper and Eagle yearbook in 2000, 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. He was cited in Mary Ellen Pethel's book "Title IX, Pat Summitt and Tennessee's Trailblazers -- 50 Years, 50 Stories."

 

An award-winning sports writer, Corhern has won numerous awards from the TSWA and the Tennessee Press Association. In 2016, 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. Corhern has also won top honors in Division IV (Sports Information) in the Best Feature Writer category. In 2019, he was named Best Feature Writer and Best Event Writer in the Division IV Sports Information category, as well as the District 4 winner in Best Event Writer in CoSIDA’s Fred S. Stabley Writing Contest.

 

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.

 

Outside the office, Corhern is a novice griller/smoker, trivia ringer, movie buff and comic historian.

 

Corhern, originally from Shelbyville, Tenn., graduated from Tennessee Tech in December 2005, earning his degree in Interdisciplinary Studies.