Chattanooga resident Aon Miller, a member of the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club as well as The Honors Course, has been elected as the 79th president of the Tennessee Golf Association. Area residents Jim Srite and Paul Roess will join the TGA board of directors. “Our two main goals are to run the best state golf championships in the country,” said Miller, who began serving on the board in 2004. “With this being our centennial anniversary, we also want to shore up our finances so that we’re solid for the next 100 years.” The TGA is celebrating is centennial anniversary throughout the year with championships at the best courses in the state and with special dinner receptions in every district from the Tri-Cities to Memphis.
• Two rounds in at both sites, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga men’s golf team is ninth in the 14-team Querencia Cabo Collegiate tournament in Mexico, and the women’s team is 10th out of 20 teams at the Kiawah Classic. Led by Emily McLennan and Agathe Sauzon in a tie for 23rd at 151 and Jordan Britt and Isabella Loza also in the top 50 at 153 and 154, the female Mocs are at 608, two strokes out of seventh and five shots clear of 11th-place Boston University. Kent State leads at 594. The Mocs in Mexico are at 596, one shot behind 17th-ranked Arkansas with No. 11 Houston leading at 573. UTC’s Ewan Scott is tied for 14th individually at 146 after a 71 Monday, and Liam Johnston, Chris Robb and Davis Bunn are at 149, 150 and 151 after their 73, 73 and 72 second rounds.
• Chattanooga Christian junior Lake Johnson won again on the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour this past weekend with a 143 that included a hole-in-one late in his 72 Sunday in the UGA Golf Course Junior Classic at Athens, Ga. His on-the-fly 172-yard ace on No. 16 helped him win by one over Scott Odell of Claxton, Ga., who closed with a 144.
Wrestling
• Preston McCalmon, an Arizona State junior from LaFayette, Ga., placed third over the weekend at the Pac-12 wrestling championships at 149 pounds. A dean’s list member at Arizona State last semester, McCalmon was a four-time Georgia state finalist and three-time champion at LaFayette. He completed his high school career with a 198-21 record. Oregon State won the six-team tournament with 155.5 points and was followed by Stanford, Boise State and Arizona State.