The TCCAA/NJCAA Region VII basketball tournaments will begin Friday at Cleveland State with the host Cougars in one of two first-day men’s games. They will face Jackson State at 6 p.m. after the Volunteer State and Dyersburg State women play at 2 and the Roane State and Vol State men meet at 4. The Lady Cougars meet Motlow at 6 p.m. Saturday, followed by Chattanooga State’s women against Southwest Tennessee at 8, and Chatt State’s men play Dyersburg at 4 p.m. Sunday. The finals are Tuesday at 2 and 4 p.m. Tickets cost $7 per day.
Track & Field
» Hixson resident and Baylor School alumna Selena Popp of Samford University was named Wednesday the Southern Conference’s most outstanding female field performer for the third indoor track and field season in a row. That followed the senior’s second consecutive “most outstanding athlete” honor at the conference indoor meet this past weekend, when she won the pentathlon and high jump for the third straight year and anchored the winning 4×400-meter relay.
Swimming & Diving
» Sewanee junior Noel Whitlock is the Southern Athletic Association women’s diver of the year after winning both the 1- and 3-meter events at the recent conference meet. Gabby Acker joined her from the Tigers on the All-SAA women’s swimming and diving first team, and Kate Mabry and diver Paisley Simmons made the second team. Whitlock and Simmons will compete this weekend in an NCAA diving regional at Grinnell College in Iowa. Lee Haber made the All-SAA men’s first team and James Hoyt and Jed Henrichsen were second-team selections from Sewanee; Anthony Carbone and Carl Failing received honorable mention.