Senior Kristy Wieser from the University of Tennessee at Chattannooga made the seven-player All-Southern Conference volleyball first team for the second year in a row, and the Mocs’ Dani Szczepanski made the all-freshman team. Wieser led UTC with 286 kills, 2.72 per set, and has a .295 attack percentage for 2016 and her career. Szczepanski led the Mocs with 81 total blocks and 0.90 per set. They are seeded third for the SoCon tournament and play Mercer at 7:30 p.m. EST Saturday in Birmingham.
Soccer
– David Perez from the Lee University men’s soccer team and Summer Lanter and Kinsey Cichowitz from the Lee women’s team were named to the Conference Commissioner’s Association NCAA Division II All-South Region teams for 2016, and the Lady Flames’ Haley Gribler, McKenzie Bricker and Lauren Peter were All-South second-team picks. Perez is a senior from Northwest Whitfield who had 10 goals and seven assists for the 9-7-2 Flames, giving him 30 goals and 17 assists for his Lee career. Lanter, a junior from Soddy-Daisy, had 11 goals and six assists and senior Cichowitz had 14 goals and two assists for the 14-3-1 Lady Flames.
Harkleroad, Emily – Silverdale – softball.
Parrott, Brooke – Central – softball.Softball
– Silverdale Baptist Academy pitcher and utility player Emily Harkleroad followed through on her fall 2015 commitment to play softball for Austin Peay. She was all-state and the District 5-A player of the year last season, when she batted .469 with 27 doubles, three home runs, 49 RBIs and 50 runs scored and had a 13-2 pitching record with a 1.14 earned run average and 105 strikeouts in 86 1/3 innings for the 42-5 Class A state runners-up. Also a basketball player who plays shortstop and outfield in addition to pitching, “she’s definitely the best athlete I’ve ever coached,” SBA’s Tim Couch said Wednesday. “Her hand-eye coordination, balance and lateral movement are incredible, and she’s a fierce competitor.” Of Austin Peay, Harkleroad said, “It just feels like home to me. I stopped looking after I went there. My mom wanted me to go to Emory, and it’s a great school, but I wanted to play in Division I.”