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Olive married his wife, Maranda, four years ago, and together they have a 1-year-old son named J.D. The two met in 2017 at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), where he earned a health and physical education degree. \u201cI\u2019ve been fortunate to be living this life to the best of my abilities. I have a great wife; without her, I would be lost, so there isn\u2019t much more I can ask for in this life. I knew I either wanted to be in some type of ministry or a coach. I thought I would become a youth minister or a summer camp director. After talking it over with some of my mentors, they encouraged me to get a college degree in something, and then I would go to seminary if I felt the call to ministry. I ended up deciding on a physical education degree and coaching while I was at UTC. When I saw how much impact I could have on people\u2019s lives on that path, I never looked back. I serve at Kings Cross Church, but my ministry is in my everyday life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olive is grateful to the teachers who helped him along the way. \u201cThey all made me who I am today. Sometimes I didn\u2019t always understand the lesson they were trying to share with me at the time, but now I understand what they were doing. One of my favorite quotes is: \u2018I want it to matter that I was here.\u2019 I hope I\u2019m making a lasting impact on the people around me. It doesn\u2019t mean that everyone has to like me. If I wanted everyone to like me, I would sell ice cream. I\u2019m sure I would still have people who wouldn\u2019t like me, even in that profession. I hope my students, players, and coworkers know I do everything to the best of my abilities to make this small part of the world a better place.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olive’s future plans include successfully balancing family life and his career with the state championship team. As a THS graduate and a former Wildcat, Olive said, \u201cTullahoma is a unique place. I tell our team all the time, \u2018You are the only team in the country wearing Tullahoma on your chest. There are a lot of Franklin and Coffee counties around the country, but only one Tullahoma. Take pride in the fact that you have the honor of representing our community.\u2019 Every year, I want to look back on what I did and how I did it and make it better. I don\u2019t like always doing the same thing just because that\u2019s the only way it\u2019s been done.\u201d GN <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When asked to share his favorite quote, lifetime wellness teacher at Tullahoma High School (THS) and offensive coordinator for the football team Caleb Olive fittingly quoted his hero of a dad, Tullahoma Athletics Director John Olive, who said, \u201cDo the ordinary things extraordinarily well.\u201d In his fifth year of teaching and eighth year of coaching, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":20440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n