University of Tennessee at Chattanooga running back Ailym Ford is the STATS FCS national freshman of the week after rushing 31 times for 200 yards and two touchdowns in last Thursday's 16-13 win over East Tennessee State.

The UTC women's soccer team ended its 2019 home schedule Sunday with a loss to UNC Greensboro.

Led by individual winner Makenzie Jones, the UTC women's cross country team repeated Saturday as champion of the Berry College Invitational, and the UTC men were third out of 15 teams.

UTC announced Friday that the NCAA has granted sophomore transfer Kallie Searcy a waiver to play this season for the women's basketball team, instead of sitting out a year.

Victor Ulmo rewarded his coach's faith Thursday night just in time for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team to improve to 3-0 in Southern Conference play.

Every other kick off Victor Ulmo's right foot, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football coach Rusty Wright had watched intently on Thursday night.

UTC freshman running back Ailym Ford registered his fourth 100-yard rushing game of the season — and his first 200-yarder — in Thursday night's 16-13 win over East Tennessee State University, and in doing so he quickly is climbing the program's record charts.

Victor Ulmo's 30-yard field goal with 15 seconds to play lifted the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga to a thrilling 16-13 win over East Tennessee State University Thursday night at Finley Stadium.

The Tennessee Sports Writers Association announced its newest Hall of Fame class on Thursday, and among the 2020 inductees will be Times Free Press sports columnist Mark Wiedmer, as well as Tommy Bryan (Lebanon) and Teresa Walker (Associated Press).

Thursday at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga

Get ready for the Thursday Night Rumble at Finley Stadium.

Vesa Silegren of Chattanooga and Will Perry of Sale Creek finished first and second in the H Production class at the Sports Car Club of America's road racing national championships last weekend in Alton, Virginia.

It may not stick, and it is certainly not the most endearing nickname ever given, but Rusty Wright may have found just the right monicker for freshman sensation Ailym Ford when asked Tuesday to describe the running back's toughness.

Beginning with a 36-34 first set, Lee University pulled out a 3-2 Gulf South Conference volleyball win Tuesday night against visiting Shorter.

With Esme Hamilton tying for ninth place among the players in the Magnolia Invitational women's golf tournament in West Point, Mississippi, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga finished fifth at 893 out of 11 teams.

Tennessee reached the midway point of the 2019 football season last Saturday with a 20-10 victory over Mississippi State.

Regardless of the teams' rankings, the third Saturday in October match-up between Alabama and Tennessee is tradition.

The UTC women's golf team was tied with Tennessee for fourth place at 295 after Sunday's opening round in the 11-team Magnolia Invitational in West Point, Mississippi.

UTC freshman tennis player Jessie Young won the singles championship of the University of Cincinnati/Pam Whitehead Invitational.

The Lee University men's and women's runners won the huge Royals Cross Country Challenge on Friday in Charlotte, where perennial Southern Conference champion Furman was the women's team runner-up and Wofford's Hannah Steelman was the 5-kilometer individual winner in 16:48.3.

Winning changes everything.

The UTC softball team has scheduled its fall intrasquad game for 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Jim Frost Stadium, but first — at 11 — the Mocs will enjoy their ring ceremony for winning the 2019 Southern Conference tournament championship.

With six players finishing in the top 10, two of them not even counting toward the team score, the Dalton State College women's golfers rolled to a 23-stroke victory Monday and Tuesday in the seven-school Thomas University Fall Invitational in Valdosta, Georgia.