Baylor coach Dan FlackUSA Swimming has chosen Baylor School and Baylor Swim Club coach Dan Flack to head the USA boys’ team for the Junior Pan Pacific Championships next Aug. 23-27 in Fiji. Allison Beebe of the Santa Clara (Calif.) Swim Club will be the girls’ head coach.
“Dan is ready and able to take on the role of head coach,” USA Swimming national junior team director Mitch Dalton said in the announcement release. “Besides his outstanding work with Trey Freeman over the last few seasons, his name has been a staple on the national junior team coaches roster for the better part of a decade.”
Flack was on the 2011 FINA World Junior Team staff and just this summer was on the USA staff at the World Juniors in Indianapolis, where Baylor swimmer Freeman was third in the 400 freestyle and fifth in the 200 free after earning 18-under national titles in both. Freeman, a 10-time high school All-American from Salt Lake City with his senior season still to go, signed this past week with Florida, and Baylor teammate Zach Althoff – a seven-time prep All-American – signed with Pennsylvania. The boarding student from Frederick, Md., was a junior national finalist in the 100 backstroke.
Basketball
-The Lee University women’s basketball team edged Florida Southern 70-68 and the Lee men opened their season with an 81-45 rout of Tuskegee in games Saturday in Cleveland. Lindsey Roddy scored 15 points and Abby Bertram and Carrie Cheeks added 14 each for the Lady Flames (2-0), who outscored their guests 20-14 in the fourth quarter. Cheeks led with seven rebounds. Twelve players scored for the Flames, led by Jason Landman and Ryan Montgomery with 12 and 10 points. Levi Woods and Parker Suedekum had four assists apiece.