The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga added another Football Bowl Subdivision transfer Friday. UTC coach Rusty Wright announced that wide receiver Tyrin Summers, a three-star prospect out of high school who has been with the Cincinnati Bearcats for three years, is joining the Mocs. Summers, also a prep track standout in Clewiston, Florida, will have two years of eligibility at UTC. “We are continuing to fill needs with some quality student-athletes, and Tyrin will certainly help us,” Wright said in a release. “He is an outstanding student who has already earned his undergraduate degree. We also expect him to have an impact on the football field.” Summers is the fifth FBS transfer to join the Mocs this offseason.
Running
» Region champion Diego Guzman from Southeast Whitfield High School has signed to run cross country for Cleveland State. He qualified for the Georgia state meet each of his three years in the sport, with a best time of 16:51 for five kilometers in his region win last fall, and he set a school record in the two-mile run at the track state meet this spring, according to a Cleveland State release. “He has been a top runner in the area meets throughout his career,” Cougars coach David Kyle said in the release. “Diego is a great young man and has been a very good runner since he started running cross country and track. He has been coached well.” Southeast coach Carrie Bishop said Guzman “is a phenomenally talented runner with tremendous work ethic. He is always smiling, even when he is exhausted.” Said Guzman: “I am really thankful for this opportunity. I will not let this chance slip away. I plan to give 100% on everything while here at Cleveland State.”
Lacrosse
» Sewanee face-off specialist Ryan Stubits has added another honor for his record-breaking senior season. The first-team All-Southern Athletic Association player already earned All-America honorable mention from the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association and participated in the USILA’s Senior All-Star Game. This week Stubits received All-South Region honorable mention from the Men’s Lacrosse Coaches Association. He set a Sewanee record by winning 282 face-offs in 2019, fifth most in NCAA Division III, at a rate of 68.6%. He wound up with a school- and SAA-record 721 career face-off wins, plus 377 ground balls in 65 games.
Basketball
» Cleveland State women’s basketball coach Evelyn Thompson recently spoke at the PlaySMARTT youth outreach program led by Dr. David Smartt in Huntsville, Alabama. She also helped with a practice and a scrimmage. “This was an opportunity to talk with a group of athletes and their parents about the commitment it takes in the classroom and on the court to get to the next level,” Thompson said in a school release.
Academics
» Sewanee had 119 athletes in its winter and spring sports named to the 2019 part of the SAA academic honor roll. That requires a minimum grade point average of 3.25 on a 4.0 scale as well as varsity participation in a league-sponsored sport. Sewanee’s Katie Roth made the list for both basketball and softball, and Hanna Judycki, Bram Atkins, Jack Barganier, Rob Mohr, Hannah Faulkner and Clay McKnight were spring repeats from the fall-sports honor roll. Women’s lacrosse led the Tigers’ winter-spring listing with 19 honorees, and there were 16 from the baseball team that had the most wins in program history. Track and field had 13 women and 10 men, and tennis had nine women and eight men.
» Led by women’s and men’s soccer with 16 and 13, Covenant College had 93 athletes on the USA South 2018-19 all-academic list for having at least a 3.30 GPA for both semesters. A 3.90 adds “awarded with distinction” to the honor, and Covenant’s Anna Danek, Andrew Godsey, Kaley Hallmark, Cooper Hayes, Christopher Kitchen and Mariah Westra earned that. Men’s track and field had 11 all-academic athletes, women’s cross country had 10 and women’s track and softball had nine each.