Former Shenandoah University assistant coach David Jenkins is the new head baseball coach at Sewanee, athletic director Mark Webb announced Tuesday. Jenkins was a four-year starter and three-time all-conference player at Shenandoah. In his six years assisting Kevin Anderson, for whom he played in high school as well as college, the Hornets went 204-63 and made five NCAA Division III tournaments with two trips to the national championships in Appleton, Wis. "He has matured into an excellent baseball coach, and I know he is going to do a great job with that program," Anderson said on the Shenandoah website. "Coach Jenkins is ideally qualified to serve as Sewanee's next head baseball coach," Webb said in Sewanee's release. "He's been an assistant coach with one of the top NCAA Division III programs in the country. He has proven experience as a recruiter." Jenkins called his new job "an amazing opportunity" and said he is "extremely honored and humbled. ... I immediately fell in love with the campus, the people and the tradition."
Volleyball
• Kristy Wieser and Sarah Batterton recorded 12 kills apiece and Nicole Sumida and Allie Davenport added 11 and nine as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball team edged Alabama-Birmingham 3-2 on the road Tuesday night. Anne Bachmann and Lauren Greenspoon had 27 and 22 assists for UTC (2-6), while Catherine Chason, Wieser and Brianna Guzinski contributed 21, 19 and 15 digs. Davenport served three aces. Sydney Nelson and Sara Rishell had 20 and 16 kills for UAB (2-5).
• Carson-Newman senior outside hitter Rachel Harper from Chattanooga and Boyd-Buchanan School was the Women Play Ball Division II athlete of the week as well as the South Atlantic Conference volleyball player of the week for her performances as the Lady Eagles won three of their first four matches. Their home opener is tonight against Converse (4-0). Harper had 59 kills in the four matches and combined 14 digs with her 17 kills against Humboldt State.
• Tennessee Temple senior outside hitter Victoria Smith was the USCAA national volleyball player of the week for her part in a 2-0 week. She averaged 4.80 kills per set and was in on nine blocks in the two matches. Temple lost 3-0 Tuesday night against Dalton State, which improved to 5-2 with the 25-10, 25-18, 25-11 triumph.
• Christina Argaez had 13 kills and 13 digs and Schuyler Moore had 24 assists and three aces as Covenant defeated visiting Sewanee 3-0 in Division III volleyball Tuesday. Chloe Carlson had 24 digs for Covenant (7-3). Jamie Sue Wilson led Sewanee (3-6) with eight kills, while Sara Jayne Sutton and Diamond Stewart had 20 and 17 digs.
• The Lee University volleyball team began its season Tuesday with a 3-0 loss at Trevecca Nazarene. The set scores were 30-28, 25-14, 25-21. Patty Orozco and Latrice Johnson had eight kills apiece and Erin Hill had 20 assists for Lee. Sarah Davis and Johnson led in digs with 10 and nine.
Soccer
• Covenant College forward Anna Porch was voted the national Division III women's soccer player of the week by the sport's coaches association. The sophomore from Minnesota had five goals and an assist as the Lady Scots went 2-1. They host Berry tonight at 7.
Golf/Running
• Redshirt freshman golfer Caroline Moore and true freshman cross country runner Seth Eagleson from Lee University were among the National Christian College Athletic Association national athletes of the week for performances last weekend. Moore led the golf Lady Flames to the Smokey Mountain Intercollegiate championship with her fourth-place finish at 149, and Eagleson won the Sewanee Invitational 8-kilometer race in 26:13.
• Centre College senior Alyssa Brown from Chattanooga and Baylor School tied for second with a team-best 77 in the Jim English Invitational hosted and won by Centre at the Danville (Ky.) Country Club last week. The Colonels will play Sunday and Monday in the O'Brien National Invitational at the University of Notre Dame.
Cycling
• King University's Megan Rogers from Soddy-Daisy was the runner-up in the women's B mountain bike race at the East Tennessee State University cycling races last weekend. King riders won three races Saturday and Sunday.