Lee University senior Josiah Brooks is the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association’s NCAA Division II men’s national indoor athlete of the week. He won the triple jump and 200-meter dash, set school records in the 60 and 200 and was the top collegian in the 60 at the BSC Indoor Icebreaker last week in Birmingham, Alabama, and his showings in the three events were the best of the week in D-II and the second (200), fourth (60) and seventh (triple) across all college levels.
Football
» UTC senior running back Alex Trotter from McCallie School is the Southern Conference candidate for the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision’s 2018 Doris Robinson Scholar-Athlete Award. Trotter has a 3.29 grade point average as a mechanical engineering major and ran 35 times for 139 yards and a touchdown this season. There are 13 finalists; STATS will announce the winner Monday.
Avery Davis
Baylor’s Avery Davis, right, competes with Ensworth’s Anna Munson for the ball during a TSSAA Division II-AA state tournament match on Oct. 16 at Baylor School.Soccer
» Baylor School honored senior soccer star Avery Davis with a celebration Wednesday night of her recent signing of a letter of intent to play for Elon. She had committed to the North Carolina university in May after shifting her recruiting targets from the North to the South after her family’s move from a Chicago suburb. “I went to an I.D. camp at Elon, and it just felt right for me,” Davis said. “The school had everything I wanted, I felt the coaches were saying things I agreed with, and the team seemed very connected – they seemed like a family.” Her two seasons at Baylor included 32 goals and 18 assists, a 2017 state championship and two years of all-state recognition. She was All-South as a junior and the Times Free Press Best of Preps girls’ player of the year for the 2017-18 school year. “I just wish they moved down here when she was a freshman,” Baylor coach Curtis Blair said. “She is one of the most coachable players we have, she is one of the hardest-working, and she is one of the best players we have. And she’s one of the best people to be around.”