Former Shenandoah University assistant coach David Jenkins is the new head baseball coach at Sewanee, athletic director Mark Webb announced Tuesday. Jenkins was a four-year starter and three-time all-conference player at Shenandoah. In his six years assisting Kevin Anderson, for whom he played in high school as well as college, the Hornets went 204-63 and made five NCAA Division III tournaments with two trips to the national championships in Appleton, Wis. “He has matured into an excellent baseball coach, and I know he is going to do a great job with that program,” Anderson said on the Shenandoah website. “Coach Jenkins is ideally qualified to serve as Sewanee’s next head baseball coach,” Webb said in Sewanee’s release. “He’s been an assistant coach with one of the top NCAA Division III programs in the country. He has proven experience as a recruiter.” Jenkins called his new job “an amazing opportunity” and said he is “extremely honored and humbled. … I immediately fell in love with the campus, the people and the tradition.”
Volleyball
• Kristy Wieser and Sarah Batterton recorded 12 kills apiece and Nicole Sumida and Allie Davenport added 11 and nine as the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga volleyball team edged Alabama-Birmingham 3-2 on the road Tuesday night. Anne Bachmann and Lauren Greenspoon had 27 and 22 assists for UTC (2-6), while Catherine Chason, Wieser and Brianna Guzinski contributed 21, 19 and 15 digs. Davenport served three aces. Sydney Nelson and Sara Rishell had 20 and 16 kills for UAB (2-5).
• Carson-Newman senior outside hitter Rachel Harper from Chattanooga and Boyd-Buchanan School was the Women Play Ball Division II athlete of the week as well as the South Atlantic Conference volleyball player of the week for her performances as the Lady Eagles won three of their first four matches. Their home opener is tonight against Converse (4-0). Harper had 59 kills in the four matches and combined 14 digs with her 17 kills against Humboldt State.
• Tennessee Temple senior outside hitter Victoria Smith was the USCAA national volleyball player of the week for her part in a 2-0 week. She averaged 4.80 kills per set and was in on nine blocks in the two matches. Temple lost 3-0 Tuesday night against Dalton State, which improved to 5-2 with the 25-10, 25-18, 25-11 triumph.