The first time Ethan Reeve came to work for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, in 1985, the two-time Tennessee All-America wrestler was the Mocs' wrestling coach and directed them to five Southern Conference championships in six years. He returned to UTC in August 2017 as coordinator of student-athlete development and Monday was named the school's director of strength and conditioning - a role he filled at Wake Forest for 16 years and at Ohio University for six years before that. He succeeds Chad Pearson, who left UTC to follow football coach Tom Arth to Akron. "Coach Reeve has been a tremendous asset to our program since returning to Chattanooga over the last 17 months. He is an expert in the field of strength and conditioning and one of the most respected individuals in that area of college athletics in the country," vice chancellor and athletic director Mark Wharton said in a UTC release. Reeve is a certified master strength coach. He was McCallie School's first strength and conditioning director (1990-95) and was the strength coach for the USRowing women's team that won four gold medals and a silver in the 1995 World Championships.
Swimming
' The Baylor Swim Club is a USA Swimming Top 50 and Silver Medal Club of excellence for the 10th time starting in 2005, with bronze medal honors four other years. BSC compiled 11,309 points - 4,000 more than the previous year - in the exhaustive report covering its "organizational professionalism and athletic performance," according to a Monday release. Only Gold Medal honoree Nashville Aquatic Club ranked ahead of BSC in all of Southeastern Swimming. "To be a Silver Medal and a United States Swimming Top 50-ranked club is a tremendous honor, one in which the entire club should be super proud," BSC and Baylor School coach Dan Flack said in the release. "I am really pleased that all the athletes posting scoring times represented all four competitive strokes as well as five different distances."
Basketball
' Jordan Smith and Kayla Benefield had 25 and 21 points and six and nine assists as NJCAA Division I member Cleveland State ended its holiday break Monday with an 83-72 win over NJCAA Division III's top-ranked women from Massasoit in Massachusetts. Massasoit previously was 13-0. Benefield and Smith combined for 11 rebounds. Also for the Lady Cougars (4-9), Britnay Gore had 14 points and 12 rebounds and Hannah Phillips scored 10 points. They play Saturday afternoon at Chattanooga State, which is 9-4 after Sunday's 77-52 win at Caldwell Tech. The Lady Tigers have won four of their last five games.
' The Bryan College men leveled their record at 8-8 with an 80-77 home win over Oakwood. Brandon Thomas had 23 points and 12 rebounds for the Lions, who led 42-28 at halftime, and Austin Douglas had 14 points and seven rebounds. EJ Bush made three steals. DeSham Hotobah-During scored 31 points for Oakwood.
' Covenant College's Will Crumly was chosen the USA South men's basketball player of the week after scoring 30 and 27 points and pulling down 11 rebounds in each of the Scots' last two games. The 6-foot-9 sophomore from Marietta has posted five straight double-doubles, averaging 30 points with 10.7 rebounds in the last three, and is second in the USA South with 22.2 points and 9.8 rebounds a game for the season. He's shooting 59.2 percent.
Volleyball
' Cleveland State announced Monday that Alizabeth Atnip has been elevated to head volleyball coach. She has served the last two seasons - the program's first two - as the assistant coach for Randy Evans. Atnip played volleyball at Alma College in Michigan and is the director of sports programs for the Cleveland Family YMCA. "I am very excited about this opportunity," Atnip said in the school release. "Being a part of Cleveland State volleyball from the very beginning, I am proud to continue strengthening and growing the program. I've had the opportunity to learn a lot and am ready for 2019!"