Baylor School’s Ellie Waldrep is one of 48 girls from throughout the nation chosen to take part in USA Swimming’s national select camp Oct. 10-13 at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. And Baylor assistant coach Laura Pitman will be there as part of the seven-person girls’ camp staff.
Also Baylor swimming’s director of operations, she will be the head manager. This will be Pitman’s second time on an USA Swimming elite camp staff in the past year. “This is a great opportunity for Ellie,” Baylor head coach Dan Flack said in a school release.
“At a camp of this level, Ellie will be exposed to a wide range of information that can really help in her preparation as she transitions to a national level competitor. This camp is for those athletes who are on the cusp of representing the United States in international competition.”
The event is for girls who were ages 14-16 when they swam invitation-worthy times from Sept. 1, 2018, to Aug. 31, 2019. Waldrep’s was 1:02.01 in the 100 backstroke.
Flack said he is “super pumped for Coach Pitman to once again be out at the Olympic Training Center working with and learning from the best in the business. This is the 15th time that USA Swimming has either asked for Baylor Swim Club coaches or used the Baylor School facilities for one of their signature camps and international teams.”
Soccer
* The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women began Southern Conference play Friday night with a weather-shortened 3-0 win over Wofford at the UTC Sports Complex. It was the 100th collegiate coaching victory for the Mocs’ Gavin McKinney, who’s in his fifth season at UTC and ninth overall. Osa Iyare scored from a Mackenzie Smith assist at 7:47, and Hollie Massey assisted Maddie Burman and Maggie Shaw on goals at 39:38 and 63:42. UTC (6-2-2) outshot the Terriers (3-6) 15-8 with a 9-2 margin in on-goal chances; Ashton Shields made two saves in the shutout. UTC now is 6-15-4 all-time against Wofford and has won four in a row in the series. The game was interrupted by a lightning delay of 67 minutes and eventually ended with 5:15 left to play.
* Covenant College used three second-half goals to beat visiting North Carolina Wesleyan University 4-1 in a USA South men’s showdown Friday. That dropped NCWU to 6-2-1, 4-1 in the league. Parker Owen, Mercer Stout, Austin Berry and Anthony Buzzeo scored for the Scots (7-0-1, 4-0), and Stout and goalkeeper Paul Lemay assisted on the last two goals. Lemay had four saves.
Volleyball
* Lee University lost 3-0 (25-19, 25-21, 25-12) in Gulf South Conference play Friday night at Valdosta State, which is 10-5, 2-0. Abby Stroh had 12 kills, 10 digs and three aces and Bailey Kress downed 11 kills for Lee (6-6, 0-2), while Hanna Matthews had 25 assists and 14 digs and Micaela McMichen had a match-high 22 digs.
Running
* The Covenant women won the Maryville Invitational cross country meet Friday for the third year in a row, and Cleveland State and Covenant were first and second in the men’s race. Cleveland State’s Erik Martinez finished second in the 8k in 27:24 with teammates Derek Gallardo and Diego Guzman fourth and fifth and Riley Higginbotham 14th. Covenant’s Brendan Yeager, Matt Seitz, Micaiah Allison, Leif Le Mahieu, Ben Mellott and Ian Sneller were sixth, seventh, ninth, 10th, 12th and 13th. The Lady Scots’ S.K. Lipperd was third in the 6k in 25:16, and Maggie Henry, Ashleigh Baker, Sydney Fitch and Megan Heath were fifth, ninth, 11th and 12th.
Golf
* The Sewanee men moved into the national Top 25 this week at No. 23 in the Division III Bushnell Golfweek coaches poll, as announced Friday by the Golf Coaches Association of America. The Tigers won the SAA Preview on Sept. 8 and finished sixth out of 20 teams at the Rhodes Fall Classic last weekend. Southern Athletic Association members Oglethorpe and Berry are 12th and 17th in the new poll.
Compiled by Ron Bush. Contact him at rbush@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6291.