Sewanee junior punter John Cleveland was given his second preseason NCAA Division III first-team All-America honor this past week, this time by Football Gameplan. He already had made the Lindy's first-team list. Cleveland also is a starting safety for the Tigers and had 27 tackles and a fumble recovery last year, but he was a first-team All-Southern Athletic Association selection for his punting. He had the second best average in Division III, 42.3 yards, with the season's longest nationally - an 82-yarder - and 18 punts fielded or downed inside the 20-yard line.
Sailing
* Chattanooga architect Rob Fowler from Privateer Yacht Club, with his daughter Maggie Fowler as crew, won the Challenger Series sailing championship at the 2016 Flying Scot North American Championships last month in Newport, R.I. The Fowlers won the first two of five races and closed with a fourth and a third in the boat Warpath. Their 19 points gave them a seven-point margin over the second-place duo from Nockamixon Sail Club in Pennsylvania. Tom Clark and Hannah Ginese from Privateer finished seventh out of 23 boats in the Challenger Series with a second and two thirds among their finishes, and PYC's Bill Robertson Jr. and Bob Ives were 21st. The Hixson-based club's Lynn Bruss and Bill Bruss were 18th in the Championship Series, also with 23 boats.
Running
* Dean Thompson and Jan Gautier were the Superhero superheroes Saturday morning at Enterprise South Nature Park. Both are in the grand masters age category (50-older) but were the overall winners of the Affordable Botox Superhero 10-kilometer race. Thompson finished in 36 minutes, 36 seconds, which is under the USA Track & Field age-group guideline. Ken Curran, 25, was second in 36:58, and masters winner Ryan Shrum and Tripp McCallie were third and fourth in 38:18 and 38:28 with Mark Malecky fifth in 42:20. Gautier was ninth overall and the first female in 44:29, with 16-year-old Samantha Murray from Kennesaw, Ga., the runner-up and 16th overall in 46:54 and masters winner Lisa Logan and Janis Kelman 18th and 19th. Geary Fults (11th overall) and Karen Leavitt were the grand masters award winners, and Thomas Starke (12th) and Connie Regal took senior grand masters honors. Eoltan Szabo won the accompanying 5k in 20:53, and 14-year-old Peyton Anderson was the female winner in 24:58. Race proceeds benefit Chattanooga Kids on the Block.
* The longtime Labor Day staple of the Chattanooga running schedule, the 5k for FCA, is being moved ahead this year to Saturday, Sept. 3, instead of that Monday. It will start at 8:30 a.m. on the Chattanooga State campus, and much of the relatively flat course is on the Tennessee Riverpark behind the school. There also will be a Kiddie K and a Junior Marathon 1-mile leg. On-site registration will begin at 6:30. "I really think this will bring some new energy to our event as runners and their families can come out on Saturday morning and get a great run in at the start of the weekend and then have the rest of the weekend for family events and to watch college football," race director Chad Varga, owner of longtime race sponsor Front Runner Athletics, said in a release. Area Fellowship of Christian Athletes director Jay Fowler expressed thanks to Varga, Front Runner and the other "many wonderful sponsors and partners that have made this annual family event a tremendous success." Race details and applications are at ChattanoogaFCA.org; registration also can be done at Active.com. For more information call the Front Runner store at 875-4642.
* The inaugural General 100 relay race Sept. 24 from Kennesaw, Ga., to Ringgold still has openings for four- and seven-runner teams to follow the course of the "Great Locomotive Chase" of April 12, 1862. That was when Union soldiers commandeered the locomotive called the General and some train cars at Big Shanty (Kennesaw) and headed toward Chattanooga, with pursuit led by the General's conductor with another locomotive and then a hand-car and finally on foot. The General 100 is sponsored by the Ringgold Telephone Co. and Scenic City Multisport with proceeds going to promote child welfare and education through the Evitt Foundation. Starting at 3 a.m., the 100-mile race will have 21 exchange points at distances of 3-7 miles. Teams interested can sign up at general100.com.