Baylor’s Flack coaching USA
Baylor School and Baylor Swim Club coach Dan Flack will be the United States boys’ head coach at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships this week in Suva,
Fiji. The competition runs Thursday through Aug. 27.
Flack served as a USA assistant on FINA World Junior teams in 2011 and 2017, and five of his Baylor swimmers have made U.S. national teams in the last 10 years, including
Trey Freeman in both 2016 and 2017. “Dan is ready and able to take on the role of head coach,” Mitch Dalton, director of the national junior team, said in a release. “Besides his outstanding work with Trey Freeman over the last few seasons, his name has been a staple on the national junior team coaches roster for the better part of a decade.” Flack’s Baylor School teams have won 12 combined, eight boys’ and six girls’ state championships and been honored as national independent school champions five times.
SOCCER
› The Tennessee Wesleyan men’s soccer team began its season Friday with a 3-0 win over visiting Middle Georgia State. Gabriel Andrade scored on a header 38:08 into the game and Kyle Wynne and Harry Baggaley added second-half goals for the Bulldogs, who had margins of 15-8 in shots and 13-2 in corner kicks and got six saves from Nick Croucher. Ben Timms and Yuri Parisotto had assists.
› The Bryan College women have nine freshmen going into Tuesday’s season and home opener against Campbellsville, including forwards Allison Sekura from nearby Rhea County High School and Summer Ghaffari from Soddy-Daisy, forward/wingback Rylee Evans from Bledsoe County, wing/wingback Aleithia Robe from Athens and midfielder Mary Claire Shaffer from Cleveland High. The others are midfielder Paula Dapena Sanchez from Pontevedra, Spain; goalkeeper Michaela Hill from Dartford, England; defender Yulia Slone from Abingdon, Virginia; and wingback Brooke Boles from Livingston, Tennessee. Sekura has Rhea County’s scoring and assists records.
VOLLEYBALL
› Tennessee Wesleyan opened its volleyball season Friday and Saturday by going 2-2 at Coastal Georgia’s Mariner Invitational at Brunswick. The Lady Bulldogs began by losing 3-1 (25-20, 25-15, 24-26, 25-23) to Coastal despite 12 kills apiece from Sydney Ritten and Marjorie Smith, 38 assists and 13 digs from Gabi Catt and six block assists by Avery Hilliard. They then beat Mayville State 3-1 (25-22, 25-22, 17-25, 25-18) with 16 kills, 12 digs and four aces by Smith, 51 assists and 11 digs by Catt, 29 digs by Haley Amet and 13, 11 and nine kills by Ritten, Hilliard and Allana Knowles. Saturday, TWU lost 3-1 (25-16, 21-25, 25-10, 25-8) to West Virginia Tech and rallied to win 3-2 (23-25, 17-25, 25-21, 25-10, 15-13) over Life. Ritten had 17 kills and Catt had 33 assists, 13 digs and three aces in that victory, when Smith added 11 kills and Amet also had 13 digs. In Saturday’s loss, Catt had 21 assists and 11 digs, Amet made 16 digs, Smith contributed 11 digs and Knowles led the team with seven kills.
GOLF
› The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s 2018-19 golf schedules were released this past week, and coach Mark Guhne’s men’s team opens Sept. 7-9 nearby at The Farm in Rocky Face, Georgia, in the Carpet Capital Collegiate tournament hosted by Georgia Tech. Colette Murray’s female Mocs begin Sept. 17-18 in Tennessee’s Mercedes-Benz Championships at Cherokee Country Club in Knoxville. That same weekend, the UTC men play a one-day 36-hole event — the Bridgestone Stroke Play — on Sept. 18 at Braselton, Georgia. They play Oct. 1-2 in the Hummingbird Intercollegiate at Sapphire, North Carolina; Oct. 15-16 in the Autotrader Collegiate at Duluth, Georgia; and Oct. 27-28 in the Grandover Collegiate at Greensboro, North Carolina. That ends their fall-semester competition; they will resume Feb. 10-12 in Palm City, Florida, and play also in Opelika, Alabama; Tampa, Florida; Franklin, Tennessee; and West Point, Mississippi, before the Southern Conference tournament April 21-23 at Pinehurst, North Carolina. The UTC women quickly will follow their Knoxville tournament with the Mason Rudolph Championships hosted by Vanderbilt Sept. 21-23 in Franklin. They will play Oct. 5-7 in Virginia Beach, Oct. 20-21 in Louisville and Oct. 29-31 in Dallas before taking off until Feb. 16-17 in Eatonton, Georgia. Other women’s spring tournaments are in Jacksonville, Florida; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Macon, Georgia, before their SoCon tourney April 21-23 at Hilton Head, South Carolina.