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
» Central High School sophomore Jamaya Parker is one of 60 high school players from the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico chosen to participate in the Softball Breakthrough Series development camp over Memorial Day weekend in Kansas City, Missouri. In addition to receiving instruction from stars of the sport such as Jennie Finch and Natasha Watley, the ages 15-19 girls will visit the Negro Leagues Museum, take part in a "career chat" with female Royals front-office employees, attend a Royals-Yankees game and hear special speakers. The event is hosted by Major League Baseball and USA Softball at no expense for the participants. Parker, who turns 16 Thursday, lists her positions as pitcher and first base.
Sailing
» Privateer Yacht Club's annual Scowabunga regatta attracted 36 competitors to Chickamauga Lake for single-handed sailboat racing this past weekend, and former PYC member Jonathan Few of Charlotte won the five-race MC Scows series in a tiebreaker over Lake Lanier's Kurt Stadele. Bob Cole of Sarasota, Florida; Stefan Schulte from the Lake Lanier club in northern Georgia; and John Sepanski of St. Louis completed the top five. Andy Burdick from Wisconsin edged PYC commodore Josh Landers for the overall Melges 14 victory, with PYC's Adam Ankars third, San Francisco's Daniel Thielman fourth and Chattanoogan Mike Schrof fifth.
Basketball
» Women's basketball coach Evelyn Thompson was one of seven women associated with Cleveland State Community College who built a house last Friday as part of the Habitat for Humanity of Cleveland Women's Build. "(This) was a great opportunity to be a part of an incredible group of women from Cleveland State Community College who are dedicated to representing the college in a positive light and the mission of service and improvement of our community," Thompson said in a school release. "It was such a humbling experience to be able to know that we were a part of building someone's home. We talk all the time to our students and student-athletes about the importance of service. It is even more of an impression when we can get out and show them by example."