Simcox honored for contributions to baseball in Tennessee

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Hats off to our old friend and former UT Baseball assistant Larry Simcox, honored this weekend with the Tennessee Baseball Coaches association Lifetime Achievement Award. A deserving honor for a guy who’s devoted his life to teaching the sport he loves.

”Well it’s always exciting, some come in green and that they’ve got that work ethic and that focus and you can see that they’re gonna be a good player. It’s just a matter of putting it all together and then you know, you’re sitting there on a Sunday evening and you get a text or a video from a parent who says here’s his at bat where he drove in the winning run. That’s always exciting to see the excitement they have for having success because it’s a hard game. This is a really hard game, and to see them have success that’s just icing on the cake,” Simcox told WVLT Sports Director Rick Russo.

He's meant a great deal to baseball in East Tennessee and recently former UT assistant and @diamondbballtn founder Larry Simcox was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

We met up to get his thoughts on the award, Tennessee baseball and rule changes for the sport @wvlt pic.twitter.com/9rjRKaqWQa
— Rick Russo (@wvltrick) January 24, 2023