The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga set a school record with 40 fall-sports athletes on the Academic All-Southern Conference team and led the league with five 4.0 students in that group. The Mocs with perfect grade point averages after last semester were soccer senior Catherine Meyer (psychology major), volleyball player Megan Kaufman (nursing) and cross country runners Abby Bateman (marketing), Julia Henderson (accounting) and Sophia Neglia (chemistry). The academic all-conference honor requires a 3.3 cumulative GPA.
Track & Field
‘ Tennessee Wesleyan’s Devonte Fletcher won the men’s 200-meter dash in 21.59 seconds, finished fifth in the 60 and joined Brandon Massey, Kenny Benton and Dillan Elkins in winning the 4×400 relay in a school-record 3:19.02 last weekend in East Tennessee State’s invitational indoor track and field meet. Massey was third in the 400. The Bulldogs also won the distance medley relay with Cody Demalavez, Ray Miller, Romeo Blackburn and Antonio Alejos finishing in 11:01.27. In field events, Hunter Marsh was sixth as the first Bulldog ever to complete a pole vault in competition and Isaiah Woodruff and Neville Smith were seventh and eighth in the triple jump. In women’s highlights, TWU’s Rachel Gallison, Mysteree Bottoroff, Rosa Cisneros and Alexis Lankford were second in the DMR and Jalicia Neil tied for third with a program-record 1.55-meter high jump.