Baylor School and Baylor Swim Club coach Dan Flack has a high-profile opportunity this week.Baylor School and Baylor Swim Club coach Dan Flack will be the United States boys’ head coach at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships this week in Suva, Fiji. The competition runs Thursday through Aug. 27. Flack served as a USA assistant on FINA World Junior teams in 2011 and 2017, and five of his Baylor swimmers have made U.S. national teams in the last 10 years, including Trey Freeman in both 2016 and 2017. “Dan is ready and able to take on the role of head coach,” Mitch Dalton, director of the national junior team, said in a 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’s Baylor School teams have won 12 combined, eight boys’ and six girls’ state championships and been honored as national independent school champions five times.
Soccer
* The Tennessee Wesleyan men’s soccer team began its season Friday with a 3-0 win over visiting Middle Georgia State. Gabriel Andrade scored on a header 38:08 into the game and Kyle Wynne and Harry Baggaley added second-half goals for the Bulldogs, who had margins of 15-8 in shots and 13-2 in corner kicks and got six saves from Nick Croucher. Ben Timms and Yuri Parisotto had assists.
* The Bryan College women have nine freshmen going into Tuesday’s season and home opener against Campbellsville, including forwards Allison Sekura from nearby Rhea County High School and Summer Ghaffari from Soddy-Daisy, forward/wingback Rylee Evans from Bledsoe County, wing/wingback Aleithia Robe from Athens and midfielder Mary Claire Shaffer from Cleveland High. The others are midfielder Paula Dapena Sanchez from Pontevedra, Spain; goalkeeper Michaela Hill from Dartford, England; defender Yulia Slone from Abingdon, Virginia; and wingback Brooke Boles from Livingston, Tennessee. Sekura has Rhea County’s scoring and assists records.
Volleyball