Xandy Green is the new volleyball coach at Sonoraville High School in Calhoun, Ga.Former Piedmont College setter Xandy Green has been hired to head the powerhouse Sonoraville High School volleyball program, Sonoraville athletic director Brent Mashburn announced Thursday. Green, who was a three-year all-area player at Allatoona High in Acworth and a four-year starter at Piedmont, takes over for Trace Vaughn, who had worked with the Phoenix for eight years and was their head coach the last four. Sonoraville is 251-107 since starting varsity volleyball in 2007, with eight consecutive state-tournament appearances. “Coach Green brings a wealth of playing experience to the position,” Mashburn said in a release. “She is extremely personable and will connect well with the girls. I look forward to a long period of success for our volleyball program.” Said Green: “I couldn’t be more excited to work with a group of girls this great. I have big shoes to fill following Coach Vaughn, but I know my experience combined with passion for the sport will show through my coaching.” She is engaged to Kyle Lundberg, who also is joining Sonoraville’s coaching staff, according to the release.
Tennis
* The Intercollegiate Tennis Association has selected Sewanee to host the ITA National Indoor women’s tournament in March, and it will be held at the Adams Tennis Complex in Murfreesboro. The Sewanee women coached by Conchie Shackelford finished the 2015-16 season 13th in the ITA rankings, and they have participated in the National Indoor the past two years, finishing fourth in 2016. The 2017 tournament, set for March 3-5, also includes reigning national champion Emory (No. 1 in the final rankings), Pomona-Pitzer (No. 6), Chicago (No. 10), Washington-St. Louis (No. 11), Carnegie Mellon (No. 12), Johns Hopkins (No. 14) and Mary Washington (No. 15). The 2017 matchups will be based on the November Oracle/ITA preseason rankings. Each team will play three matches.
Golf
* The Chattanooga Golf & Country Club team of Blakesly Warren, Ryan Kopet, Georgia McCravey and Janet Horton won the A Division of the Chattanooga Women’s City Team Play golf tournament Thursday at Signal Mountain Golf & Country Club. Their score in the four-person low-ball event was 67. Valleybrook’s Jeanie Reedy, Linda Marcum, Lynn Heck and Leslie Metcalfe won the B Division with a 76, and Signal Mountain’s Jean Cates, Sylvia Friedl, Linda Davis and Jean St. Charles won the C Division with an 81 and a three-way sudden-death playoff. Signal Mountain will host the women’s individual tournament starting Monday