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Jacob Shames
High school sports reporter
Jacob Shames covers Tennessee high school sports, Nashville SC and Austin Peay for the USA Today Network. A 2019 graduate of the University of Michigan, he previously worked for the Crookston Times and the Montgomery Advertiser.