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Breakfast with Phillip Fulmer



Story and photography by Claire McWhorter

The Knoxville Chamber welcomed recently named athletic director for the University of Tennessee Phillip Fulmer to a very special breakfast event. McCarty Holsaple McCarty and Cope Architecture were co-sponsors for the event. The former head coach of the Volunteers and SEC Champion coach had the group laughing as he described the coaches and players under his supervision. After the main presentation, a Q & A session was followed by coffee and pastries on the roof at Hyatt Place.

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