Baylor School boarding student Jack Kirby from Barbados signed a national letter of intent this past week to swim collegiately for Southern California. According to a Baylor release, Kirby is a member of the Barbados Swimming Federation national team and qualified for this year’s Youth Olympics and last year’s World Juniors from the Caribbean island country. He holds seven 15-17 age-group national records in backstroke and freestyle events, at distances of 50 to 200 meters, and is the Barbados open age-group record-holder in the 50 long-course-meter backstroke. In high school competition, he is a seven-time NISCA All-American and won the 100 free and 100 back and helped win the 400 free relay at the 2018 TISCA state meet.
Tennis
* University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s tennis coach Chad Camper announced Friday the signing of the fifth-ranked player in Georgia, according to TennisRecruiting.net. That is Jessie Young of Canton, a senior at Cambridge High School in Alpharetta. TennisRecruiting has her as a four-star prospect and a top-50 player in the Southeast. Her mother played tennis for Georgia State, where her father played golf. “Jessie has the perfect game for college tennis,” Camper said in a UTC release. “She can win the point several ways and has a fighting spirit. I knew the first time I watched her compete that this was a player we need at Chattanooga.”
Volleyball
* Lee University seniors Silvia Sartori and MaKayla Beebe closed out their Lady Flames volleyball careers as D2CCA all-region selections, outside hitter Sartori on the seven-player first team and libero Beebe on the second team with East Hamilton graduate Emma Lenoir of Christian Brothers. Sartori had 510 kills and 404 digs in 115 sets this season and 1,583 kills and 1,271 digs in 116 career matches. Beebe totaled 1,915 digs in 119 matches for Lee, including 625 in 107 sets in 2018. Lenoir had 501 kills and 336 digs in 113 sets this year.