Baylor Swim Club representatives Cecilia Porter and Ellie Waldrep qualified for the 2020 United States Olympic Team Trials on the way to sixth-place finishes at the Atlantic Classic meet this past weekend at the Georgia Tech McAuley Aquatic Center, and Baylor School alumnus Trey Freeman, now a Florida Gator, won the men’s 400-meter freestyle in 3:52.35 and was third in the 200 free. Porter qualified for the Olympic trials in June 2020 with her 1:10.34 in the 100 breaststroke preliminaries. Waldrep, a Baylor sophomore, qualified at 1:02.14 in the 100 backstroke finals. She finished eighth in the 200 back Sunday. Other BSC top-10s in the meet came from Addison Smith in the women’s 200 butterfly and 400 free, Alex Borisov in the men’s 200 breast and Jack Kirby in the 100 back.
Golf
» David Noll Jr. of Dalton overcame a second-round 77 on Saturday with a 4-under-par 68 Sunday and won the 2019 Georgia Mid-Amateur golf tournament with a 54-hole 216 at The River Club in Suwanee. It was his fourth Georgia Mid-Am championship, one short of the record held by Georgia Golf Hall of Fame member Allen Doyle, but his first in five years. Noll finished with four groups still on the course but wound up with a two-shot win over Savannah’s Doug Hanzel, another Georgia Golf Hall of Famer, and Warner Robins resident Stan Gann.
» University of Tennessee at Chattanooga golfer Oliver Simonsen from Baylor School won the Signal Mountain Invitational with a 209 (69-73-67) this past weekend, defeating Lee University’s Evan Spence from McCallie and Ohio State’s Grant Engle by two strokes. Alexander Vegh was fourth in the championship flight with a 212, and Jack Uselton, Ricky Honeycutt, Ryan Terry and Tom Schreiner tied for fifth at 214. Tim Crawford won the senior flight with a 216, two strokes ahead of Scott Patton.
Softball