Multisport standout Hannah Wood of Red Bank High School was honored Sunday as the Chattanooga Area FCA Christian athlete of the year. She is headed to Berry College to play softball but also has excelled in volleyball, leading the team in kills. According to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes release from its Day of Champions at Ridgedale Baptist Church, Central soccer player Haylee Smith was the runner-up and also will receive a partial scholarship from the ministry. Soddy-Daisy girls' basketball coach Drew Lyness received the Jim Sattler Leadership Award, Howard baseball coach Jon Johnson the Legacy Builder Coaches Award and Calvary Baptist with youth pastor Aaron McGuirt the FCA church partner of the year. Richard Hardy's Sydney Boggs got the Judy Fowler Leadership Award as the FCA region's top middle school leader.
Basketball
» University of Tennessee at Chattanooga assistant women's coach Brittany Johnson will be inducted Saturday into the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame for her exploits for Olney East Richland High. She graduated from there in 2007 as the first Illinois prep player, female or male, to score more than 4,000 career points. She totaled 4,031 in 129 games, an average of 31.3, and the total is still second in state history. She was Illinois Miss Basketball and the Gatorade state player of the year in 2007 and a four-time IBCA first-team all-state selection. She went on to play at Ohio State for current UTC coach Jim Foster and then played two years professionally in Greece and Israel. She just completed five seasons on Foster's Mocs staff.
Golf
» Not surprisingly after their record-setting performance in the league tournament, Lee University's nationally 18th-ranked Lady Flames dominated the All-Gulf South Conference women's golf honors announced Monday. Lee's Sam Burrus, Caroline Moore and Haverly Harrold made the first team, sophomores Annika Gino and Anne Hedegaard were second-team selections for the second time and John Maupin was coach of the year. Burrus made the first team for the third year in a row and Moore also is a three-time all-conference pick, while sophomore Harrold is the 33rd-ranked player in NCAA Division II and leads Lee with a 74.84 stroke average. Another Lady Flame, Judianne Speach, had made the GSC all-tournament team. They will play in the South/Southeast super regional May 7-9 in Memphis. Lee sophomore Scott Odell made the All-GSC men's second team with a 72.67 stroke average and eight top-25 finishes and three top-10s in his nine tournaments this school year.
» Sewanee junior Meghan Symonds is one of six individuals invited to the 2018 NCAA Division III women's golf tournament May 8-11 at Mission Inn Resort and Club in Howey-in-the-Hills, Fla. She also participated in the national tournament as a freshman and a sophomore but as part of the Sewanee team. She tied for 29th last year. This year she was the Southern Athletic Association tournament runner-up and made the All-SAA first team.
Baseball
» Tennessee Wesleyan senior Dakota Phillips is 2018's final Appalachian Athletic Conference baseball player of the week for his part in the Bulldogs' three-game sweep that made them regular-season co-champions and the No. 2 seed for this week's AAC tournament at Kingsport, Tenn. They play at 4 p.m. Wednesday against Montreat, just before top-seeded Bryan's meeting with Union (Ky.). This past weekend, Phillips batted .583 with two home runs and a double among his seven hits, plus eight RBIs and five runs scored.
» Lee University will open play in the GSC baseball tournament Saturday at 6 p.m. EDT in Cleveland, Miss., against Montevallo. The Flames (25-24, 16-13) will face West Florida at 11 a.m. Sunday and play West Georgia on Monday. In the GSC softball tournament, Lee (27-27, 15-18) will play at 6:30 p.m. EDT Thursday at North Alabama.