One day after reporting the resignation of Kyle Taylor as athletic director and basketball coach to join the men's basketball program at Utah State University, Covenant College announced the promotion of Tim Sceggel to the AD position. He was the associate director of athletics, having come to the Lookout Mountain school in 2007. He previously worked in the athletic departments at Wheaton College and the University of Louisville. At Covenant he has been responsible for all NCAA and institutional compliance as well as sport supervision, facilities, event management and oversight of all student employees, according to the school's release Tuesday. He also is Covenant's Title IX deputy coordinator and teaches in the sport administration program, which he helped start. "Tim has been the glue in the department during the past two athletic director administrations," vice president for student development Brad Voyles said in the release, "and has been instrumental in our transition to the NCAA as well as in our ongoing compliance." Sceggel received the National Association of Division III Athletic Administrators' Emerging Athletic Administrator award in 2014. "To explore and express the pre-eminence of Christ in college athletics is an unbelievable opportunity, and I'm thrilled to be able to do it at my alma mater," he said. "I'm also grateful for the platform to serve our coaches and student-athletes in this context." He earned a degree in sociology from Covenant and a master's in sport administration from Louisville and is working on a doctorate from Alabama.
Baseball
* Kent Sullivan, a former Chattanooga State baseball pitcher under coach Bob Brotherton, is one of four selections for the 2016 class of the University of North Alabama Athletic Hall of Fame. They will be inducted in a 9 a.m. CDT ceremony on Oct. 15 in Florence. Sullivan, who lived on Signal Mountain during his college days, pitched in the 1990 and 1991 seasons for UNA's Lions and went 15-2 with a 1.32 career earned run average. He was 8-0 in 1991 with a school-record 0.68 ERA, the lowest that year in NCAA Division II. His 27 appearances that season included 26 in relief and a complete-game shutout win, with 35 strikeouts and 13 walks and only 39 hits and no home runs allowed in 52 2/3 innings. He was All-Gulf South Conference, first-team All-South Region and a third-team ABCA All-American that year. He graduated from UNA in 1992 with a degree in history and has worked more than two decades as a middle school teacher. He's now at Space Center Intermediate School in Seabrook, Texas. Sullivan and his wife, April, have a daughter, Montana, 16, and a son, Nash, 13.
General
* Thursday, July 28, has been set as "UTC Night at the Lookouts," and every 2016 paid football season-ticket holder by then can get a free general-admission ticket to the 7:15 p.m. baseball game against the Tennessee Smokies from a university representative outside the main gate at AT&T Field. Also, the Mocs Club will be hosting a picnic at 6 p.m. in the picnic pavilion down the first-base line, and that costs $25 for admisson and a complete all-you-can-eat barbecue meal including dessert. Beer will cost $2 during the 90 minutes of food service for the picnic, and soft drinks and water will be free throughout the game. Tuesday at 5 p.m. is the deadline to RSVP for the picnic. For more information email mocsclub@utc.edu or call 425-5273. Also that night, through the Chattanooga Mocs Facebook page someone can win use of a suite for 20 people, the chance to throw the ceremonial first pitch, a UTC football jersey signed by coach Russ Huesman and a Lookouts prize pack.