The University of the South announced Tuesday five individuals and the 2007 women's team as the 2017 selections for the Sewanee Athletics Hall of Fame. The individuals are basketball players Kim Fauls and Jim Startz, football players Mike Lumpkin and Doug Paschall and field hockey player Katie Teague. They will be honored during Hall of Fame weekend, Sept. 29-30, and introduced at the Tigers' football game that Saturday against Hendrix. Paschall was on the 1963-66 football teams that went 25-8 and was a captain two of those years. His freshman season the Tigers went 8-0 with a 275-45 points margin, and the 1965 team was 7-1 and won the conference. He was a 1966 NCAA Postgraduate Scholar and a Rhodes Scholar. Lumpkin was a third-generation Sewanee football player and a captain in 1972 and 1973 and also an All-American his fourth season. Startz totaled 1,457 points and 650 rebounds in his 1982-85 Sewanee basketball career, and he was all-conference and All-South his last two seasons. Fauls (1994-97) is third all-time in the women's program with 1,559 points and seventh with 690 rebounds, and she was a four-time all-conference selection, the last three as a first-teamer. Teague was Sewanee's first field hockey player selected for the national North/South All-Star game. A four-time all-conference pick, she was the league tournament MVP and a Regional All-American in 1992, when she had a team-high 11 goals plus seven assists for a repeat conference champion that went 15-2. That 2007 tennis team went 23-2 and had the highest final ranking of any sports team in the school's history, No. 3, and the losses were to the two national finalists. Those Tigers beat seven Top 20 teams, including four-time defending national champion Emory twice, and wound up with two All-Americans, five all-conference-tournament picks, four ITA National Scholar-Athletes, an NCAA Postgraduate Scholar, a national singles finalist (Gabriela Carvalho), a finalist doubles pair (Carvalho with Laura Fanjoy) and the ITA national senior and rookie players of the year.
Soccer
- University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's soccer coach Gavin McKinney announced the 2017 schedule Tuesday, and it begins with home matches at Finley Stadium on Aug. 18 and 20 against Austin Peay and Eastern Kentucky. But then comes a stretch of nine road contests in 10 games, the exception being a Sept. 3 home battle against Morehead State. The last of the nonconference matches is Sept. 17 at Alabama. That is followed by Southern Conference dates at East Tennessse State, Western Carolina and Samford before the SoCon home opener Oct. 6 against VMI. Two days later the Mocs will host UNC Greensboro, but then they will play at The Citadel and Mercer before closing out the regular season Oct. 20 and 22 at home against Furman and Wofford.
Softball
- Covenant College softball third baseman Jordan Brett made the 2017 National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Atlantic Region third team for NCAA Division III. Already voted to the All-USA South West Division first team, Brett batted .397 with eight home runs, 34 RBIs and 32 runs scored this season and made just three errors in 150 chances defensively. She is Covenant's career leader in batting average (.407), hits (189), doubles (57), multi-hit games (55) and multiple-RBI games (38) and is second in career homers (17) and RBIs (118).
Track & Field
- GPS graduate Tiana Mills was one of six Carson-Newman track and field athletes named to the Division II All-Southeast Region team announced Tuesday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. She was a Southeast champion in long jump at 5.81 meters and also was all-region for triple jump (11.71 meters). Kristofer Potts-Howard from Tullahoma was all-region in men's long jump and triple jump and will join high jumper Tanner Stepp in representing the Eagles at the Division II outdoor nationals May 25-27 in Bradenton, Fla.