As departing University of Tennessee at Chattanooga All-America defensive end Davis Tull awaits an unknown NFL opportunity, he knows he will be honored by the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame on June 6 in Nashville. He will receive the Perseverance Award at the Champions Within Luncheon set for 11:30 a.m. CDT that day at the Omni Nashville Hotel. The hall’s release Wednesday noted Tull’s broken femur in his senior year at Bearden High School in Nashville and the lost interest from FBS schools after the injury. “Davis was fortunate to be offered a chance to be a walk-on player at UT-Chattanooga,” the release said. “Since that time Davis has been one of the most dominant defensive players in college football.” He was the Southern Conference defensive player of the year three times. Five other people with inspirational stories also will be honored at the luncheon. Tickets =cost $40 and may be reserved by calling 615-202-3996.
* McCallie School alumnus William (Billy) Dunavant Jr. will be one of the 2015 inductees into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame the night of June 6 at the Omni Hotel in Nashville. Former Baylor and Duke University football star David Helton already has been announced as the organization’s male amateur athlete of the year. Dunavant is the former owner of the Memphis Showboats in the United States Football League and developed the Racquet Club of Memphis. The 1950 McCallie graduate built Dunavant Enterprises Inc. into the world’s largest cotton merchandising company.
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* UTC men’s golf coach Mark Guhne announced Wednesday the signing of top Canadian junior player Etienne Brault. He joins earlier signee Lake Johnson from Chattanooga Christian as new Mocs for 2015-16. “I got a call from one of our alums, Stephen Fritsch, to check Etienne out,” Guhne said in a UTC release. “… He is a strong ball-striker who has the potential to step in right away for us.” BRault had three consecutive top-10 finishes on the Future Collegians World Tour in Florida this year, and he won by four strokes at Metro West. He has 23 top-10s and 15 top-fives in his junior career.
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