Former Georgia state champion Jon Lancaster from Heritage High School and the Baylor Swim Club was one of four Carson-Newman men recognized as 2017 Scholar All-Americans by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America. The designation requires a minimum grade point average of 3.5 and participation in an NCAA, NAIA or NJCAA national meet. Lancaster was the male swimmer of the meet at the 2017 Bluegrass Mountain Conference Championships, where he was All-BMC in the 400 and 200 individual medleys and the 1000 freestyle and set a school record of 3:57.12 in the 400 IM. North Carolina's Susanna LaRochelle from Girls Preparatory School and Tennessee diver Emily Pelletier from Baylor received women's Scholar All-America honorable mention.
Golf
- Area residents Mike Poe and Bob Rice repeated as runners-up Saturday in the Tennessee Senior Four-Ball tournament at Toqua Golf Club at Tellico Village, as Danny Green of Jackson and Steve Golliher of Knoxville won for the fourth time in five years. Poe and Rice defeated Tim Jackson and Buzz Fly from the Memphis area 2 and 1 in the semifinals before falling 1 up to Green and Golliher in the back-and-forth final. Chattanooga's Neil Spitalny, the reigning Tennessee Super Senior Amateur champion, and John Williams won the Super Senior Four-Ball title with a 2-up win over Fairview's Frank Dial and Scott Felker after a 2-and-1 defeat of Phillip Hoy of Loudon and Dan Dent of Vonore.
Softball
- Silverdale Baptist Academy rising junior Maddie Tankersley committed Friday to play college softball at Alabama-Huntsville. Tankersley, who has been tutored in pitching for years by Beth Keylon Rawlston and is in her second year in the ProStar Fastpitch program headed by Steve Chattin, said she has attended camps at or otherwise visited "probably 12-15 different schools over the last two years, and the opportunity at UAH is the perfect fit for my academic and athletic goals. The school is very strong in math and science, which fits my major. I have been impressed with the athletic facilities, and I immediately fell in love with Coach (Les) Stuedeman and the staff." Tankersley has a 3.9 grade point average and is in the student council and student ambassadors program at SBA, and she wants to major in biology on the way to becoming an orthodontist. "Maddie throws in the low 60s with two college-level pitches in her changeup and curve," Chattin said. "She is working to have her riseball at the collegiate level, and she has two more years of travel ball before she goes to college."
Fishing
- Tommy Floyd Jr. and James Gibbons of South Florence High School in South Carolina won the 2017 Costa Bassmaster high school national fishing tournament Thursday and Saturday on Kentucky Lake with a two-day total of 43 pounds, 3 ounces, and Samuel and Matthew Vandagriff of Warren County in McMinnville, Tenn., were fifth out of 231 boats at 40-6. Grundy County's Case Anderson and Grant Hodosi finished 47th at 30-3, and Sale Creek's Parker Reed and James Gravitte were 53rd at 29-1.
Soccer
- Bryan College released its 2017 men's soccer schedule this past week, and it includes nine matches each at home and away. After scrimmages at Berry and in Dayton against UAH, coach Drew Courtney's Lions officially begin Aug. 24 by hosting Bob Jones. They then visit Thomas University and William Carey and entertain Campbellsville (Sept. 2) in a trio of nonconference tests against teams ranked in the top 16 last year, when Bryan went 16-3-3 and reached the NAIA national opening round. The Lions host Pikeville on Sept. 5 and visit formidable West Virginia Tech and Dalton State (Sept. 12) before welcoming St. Andrews for their Appalachian Athletic Conference opener Sept. 16. AAC home games follow against Reinhardt on Sept. 19, Union on Sept. 26 and Bluefield on Sept. 30 before a short trip to Tennessee Wesleyan on Oct. 3. Later home games are against Florida National on Oct. 7 and Truett McConnell on Oct. 17.
- Covenant College also released its 2017 men's soccer schedule this past week, and Nathan Pifer's Scots open against Wilmington's Quakers on Sept. 1 at Maryville and play there the next day against Eastern Mennonite. Covenant hosts Sewanee at 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 6 and visits Belhaven and Millsaps on Sept. 8 and 9 before starting USA South play with homecoming games Sept. 16 and 17 against North Carolina Wesleyan and Methodist. Later home matches are Sept. 27 against Piedmont, Sept. 30 against Pfeiffer, Oct. 7 against Pensacola Christian, Oct. 13 against Maryville, Oct. 14 against Brevard and Oct. 25 against Berea. The conference tournament begins Oct. 28.