Baylor School and Baylor Swim Club athlete Trey Freeman went from winning two individual events and anchoring a first-place relay Friday and Saturday in the high school state tournament in Nashville to qualifying Sunday for the U.S. Olympic trials in the 200-meter freestyle. His 1:51.00 long-course time at the Centennial Sportsplex gave him three qualifying times for the June 26-July 3 trials in Omaha, Neb. He had qualified for the 1500- and 400-meter freestyles at the Speedo Junior National Championships last summer. Freeman’s 1:36.70 finish in the 200-yard free in the high school meet set a TISCA state record and was the fastest ever for a 15-year-old male.
Softball
* UTC sophomore Cori Jennings is the Southern Conference’s first softball pitcher of the week for 2016 after earning two complete-game wins with a 0.50 earned run average this past weekend at Clermont, Fla. She threw a two-hitter with 11 strikeouts and no earned runs in a 3-1 defeat of Liberty and added a six-hitter with six strikeouts in a 2-1 win over Bethune-Cookman. The Mocs will host the Chattanooga Spring Classic this weekend and will face Dayton at 1:30 p.m. and Wright State at 4 on Friday. Tickets cost $10 a day for adults; youth tickets are $5.
Basketball
* UTC junior Jasmine Joyner was picked by College Sports Madness as the SoCon women’s basketball player of the week for the second time this season. She averaged 17 points and 11 rebounds and totaled 10 blocked shots in two road wins and leads the league with 9.3 rebounds a game and the nation with 4.24 blocks per game. The Mocs host Samford at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
* Bryan College junior Megan Billingsby is the Appalachian Athletic Conference women’s basketball player of the week for her averages of 18.7 points and 9.7 rebounds in three wins last week. She made seven of 12 3-point tries and totaled seven steals also. Billingsby, who’s averaging 14.1 points and 7.4 rebounds a game for the season, had 27 points and 18 rebounds in a 68-47 defeat of Point University.
Baseball
* Covenant College senior Jonah Paul was selected the USA South baseball pitcher of the week and teammate Luke Harvey was the player of the week for their performances in a three-game weekend sweep of Emory & Henry. Harvey, a junior outfielder, was 7-for-10 with two doubles, a walk, five runs scored and one RBI. He is batting .588 with seven runs, four RBIs and three stolen bases for the season. Paul, a Chattanooga Christian alumnus, pitched a three-hit shutout with nine strikeouts and has an ERA of 0.64 in a 2-0 start to the season.
Tennis
* The Washington and Lee women’s tennis team was picked to win the Old Dominion Athletic Conference for the 14th consecutive time this season, and one of the Generals’ leaders is former Girls Preparatory School standout Michelle Fleenor. She is one of three returning first-team All-ODAC players in the W&L lineup, having been picked first-team at No. 5 singles and No. 3 doubles. Fleenor was 12-3 overall in singles and 17-10 in doubles as a freshman in 2015, when the Generals went 24-5 and 11-0 in league play.
Equestrian
* Sewanee opened its spring equestrian season by finishing third Saturday and first Sunday in the MTSU IHSA Show at Murfreesboro, Tenn. Sewanee’s Mary Marshall Fariss was the high point rider Sunday, after Aelin Hill was the reserve high point rider (runner-up) the day before, and Kathryn Miller, Caroline White and Madison Baugh joined previous qualifiers Fariss, Kimberly Williams and Abigail Bray as regional qualifiers. Sunday, Iris Harrison won in open over fences, Fariss in intermediate over fences, Baugh in novice flat and Sophie Streitheiser in walk/trot, and White, Madison Wright, Rosemary McMaster and Miller were event runners-up. Hill and teammate Natalie Robbins tied for first in intermediate flat and Fariss, Streitheiser and Claire Huskey had second-place finishes Saturday.