Sewanee has hired Greg Cathell from Centenary College in Louisiana to succeed Patrick Johnston as women’s soccer coach. Cathell had a 29-21-3 record in his three seasons at the Shreveport school, which had totaled 20 wins the previous five years. His team was 16-3 in 2019, and two seasons at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York netted a 19-12-8 record. In between his Division III head-coaching jobs, the former Maryland-Eastern Shore all-conference player and Delaware high school coach of the year was an assistant at Division I Siena. “His extensive experience and competitive success as a Division III head coach will serve our program well, and I expect our team will thrive under his leadership,” Sewanee athletic director Mark Webb said in Thursday’s. Cathell officially starts March 1. “We will be a team of staunch competitors that won’t settle for anything but our absolute best both on the soccer field and in the classroom,” Cathell said.
Golf
* Lee golf coach John Maupin has announced the signing of Ben Seay from Signal Mountain’s 2018 and 2019 high school state champions. Seay, who also considered Carson-Newman and Maryville College, won the 2019 district tournament and finished third in the region and sixth in the state. He also was won the Southern States Junior and was third in the SJGT Chattahoochee. “Ben comes from a great high school program at Signal Mountain and is a good addition to our program,” Maupin said in a Lee release. “He had some strong rounds this summer and fall and is really starting to take off with his game. I know he’ll be a great representative of our university and golf program.”
Basketball
* Lee’s nationally fourth- and fifth-ranked women’s basketball team rolled Thursday to an 84-49 Gulf South Conference home win over West Georgia with 21 points and eight rebounds from Abby Bertram, 18 points and 14 rebounds from Camryn Grant and 18 points and six assists from Nicky Widenski. The Lady Flames are 23-1, 15-1 in league play. The likewise first-place Lee men also won, 84-78, led by Quay Kennedy’s 26 points. Jayce Willingham scored 17 and Parker Suedekum and Ryan Montgomery added 12 and 10 for the Flames (19-4, 14-2). Montgomery and Kennedy each grabbed seven rebounds.